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From: gdelong@cvman.prime.com (Gary Delong)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: dot files in /usr/spool/news
Message-ID: <116@cvman.prime.com>
Date: 31 May 89 18:12:39 GMT
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Organization: Computervision, Manchester, NH
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After the discussion on /usr/spool/news/.rnews, I thought I might
bring up something I've been wondering about.

| ls /usr/spool/news/.[ai]*
| 
| -rw-r--r--  2 news     news        11290 May 31 07:14 .ara19398
| -rw-r--r--  2 news     news        12631 May 31 07:14 .ara19403
| -rw-r--r--  1 news     news        32625 May 31 07:14 .ina19415
| -rw-r--r--  1 news     news        24889 May 31 07:14 .ina19418
| [...many more...]

The .ara????? files are all postings to comp.mail.maps (which
seemed to have been posted ok) and the .ina????? files seem to
be the maps with the headers stripped.

I've been rm'ing them manually, but does anyone know why they
are showing up in the first place?  Or is this some neat feature I
don't know how to use?

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