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From: karl@dinosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
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Subject: Re: much smaller history file after expire -r -h
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Date: 19 Feb 89 18:44:24 GMT
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In-reply-to: karl@sugar.uu.net's message of 19 Feb 89 13:38:55 GMT

karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
   The history file was 2.5 megabytes long.  I did an
	   expire -r -h -e14 -E28
   ...and afterwards, the history file was only 750 Kbytes.  An equivalent 
   proportion of articles were not removed.

This is normal.  First, note that -r implies -h (see expire(8)).
Second, although you remove files after 2 weeks (-e14), you are
keeping history information for 4 weeks (-E24).  When you rebuild from
scratch, the history information previously held for already-deleted
articles is lost.

--Karl