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From: xxrich@alliant1 (Rich Rinehart)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C news expire: how do I get rid of this message?
Message-ID: <1990Feb27.155224.3019@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
Date: 27 Feb 90 15:52:24 GMT
References: <1990Feb26.204931.7667@idt.unit.no> <1990Feb26.235225.1721@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: xxrich@alliant1.UUCP (Rich Rinehart)
Organization: NASA/Lewis Research Center
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>>	expire: wrong number of fields in `	635590719~-...'
>
>I replied to the original poster by mail, as requested, but in case folks
>are curious:  the message essentially means "corrupted history file", and
>the fix is to either make local repairs (if you know what you're doing)
>or rebuild history (if you don't).

how does one rebuild history, by the way.

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