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From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: Troubles posting news (V5.8)
Message-ID: <22259.25dbd471@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 16 Feb 90 16:22:41 GMT
References: <938.25d8183f@simpact.com>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <938.25d8183f@simpact.com>, jeh@simpact.com writes:
> I'm posting the following on behalf of a new DECUS uucp user.  
..
> I can POST to local newsgroups fine, but when I try to Post to a sci. group,
> for example, I get the message:
> Error: Post - (sci.physics) Cannot add to Newsitem index file (B00184EC)

It sounds as if either you NEWS.GROUPS or NEWS.ITEMS files is
corrupted. If I were you, I would start over by deleting the
NEWS.GROUPS and NEWS.ITEMS files and re-doing the installation. You
would be well advised to to this soon, as the larger you news database
grows, the harder it will be to reconstruct.  You can add in the
current articles that you already have (after deleting NEWS.GROUPS and
NEWS.ITEMS) by doing:

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

If you have a lot of articles already in the NEWS database, this will
take a LONG time to run.  If you are an RMS INDEXED FILE expert, you
might try to recover the files using ANALYZE/RMS and CONVERT.  I have
had mixed success doing things like this, but then I don't know much
about RMS or INDEXED files. :-)
-- 
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