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From: qiyuebu@altair (Qiyue Bu)
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Subject: Re: How to rebuild active with C-news?
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Date: 18 Feb 90 01:51:32 GMT
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In article <1990Feb14.163612.19236@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>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.
>-- 
>"The N in NFS stands for Not, |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
>or Need, or perhaps Nightmare"| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu