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In article <830703433snz@wash.demon.co.uk>
           john@wash.demon.co.uk "John Washington" writes:

>Thanks, I'd forgotten LSI.  But it wouldn't have helped
>in this case.  I had a chunk of BIOS and a zillion FFs appended
>to the new file.

Wow.  I'd like one of those GoogolByte disks <g>.  (Incidentally and
irrelevantly, a googol has the value 16 - in the definition 10^100 no
base is specified so it must be assumed to be binary <g>...)

>However, if 'active' had not yet been updated,
>it and the .idx would have shown where to truncate the file.
>I suppose one could just assume the end of the .idx file is
>good, and truncate the newsgroup file on the basis of that
>only.

The GNUish 'head' utility is good for that (in the Simtel fileutils or
textutils subdirectory usually, sometimes also found in collections of
GNU MSDOS ports)...

>My current feeling is that unbatch would be improved by
>changing to update 'active' later, and without any disadvantage.

If you wanted to update it earlier you could run LSI or equivalent, I
suppose.

>But beware the Greeks bearing free lunches, or some such proverb?

There ain't no such thing as a free Greek!  A free geek, on the other
hand (I'm a free geek at the moment, or at least a geek with a free week
- gods, this sounds like Dr. Seuss!) <g>...

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