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From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: How rebuild the newsitems.v50 file
Message-ID: <21141.25adb591@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 12 Jan 90 16:46:41 GMT
References: <12605@bsu-ucs.uucp>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <12605@bsu-ucs.uucp>, system@bsu-ucs.uucp (Michael E. White) writes:
> Our newsitems.v50 file got clobbered somehow is there a way to rebuild it?
> I created a new blank file and new items seem to be going into it ok but I
> still have some newsitems in the news directories that are not showing up
> and the total newsgroup message count is not correct. Any pointers from the
> net would be welcomed. Thanks.

Try:

NEWS>  ADD FILE/RETRY NEWS_DEVICE:[...]*.ITM

This will recover all the articles that don't already exist in the
database. It will certainly not preserve that article numbers, so
everyone's NEWSRC file will be obsolete.  It may also change the order
of some articles, for example old article 1 will be followed by old
article 10, rather than 2, because they will be added in alphabetical
order. If this is a problem, then use appropiate wild cards to add the
articles in the correct order, %.itm first, then %%.itm, etc.
-- 
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