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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: How to rebuild active with C-news?
Message-ID: <1990Feb14.163612.19236@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Feb13.141726.28155@hriso.ATT.COM>
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 90 16:36:12 GMT

In article <1990Feb13.141726.28155@hriso.ATT.COM> starr@hriso.ATT.COM (Michael L. Starr) writes:
>... Unfortunately, I can find no way to rebuild the active file
>to reflect the articles and newsgroups that were received since the
>last backup...  For future reference, is
>there any way to rebuild active?

In the worst case it's impossible without extra information, because there
is no way to reconstruct the fourth field of the active file (in particular,
whether groups are moderated or not).  Given an active file with first and
fourth fields right, recovact and upact will fix the second and third
fields respectively.  See the manual pages for details.
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