Re: Robust design for dosdis expire

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From: Malcolm Muir
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 00:00

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Graham E Kinns (Graham@grempc.demon.co.uk) wrote:

> Famous last words ... place the above on hold as well - Unlucky Alf 
> here has just managed to trash his history.snw as there's no checking 
> for disk full/write failure in expire.c expire_history(), is there?  
> (well, there is now ... ;)

How much do you value your time. 1Gb of disk costs about 120pds in
these parts :)

> I've just copied the contents all of the remaining free clusters onto 
> another partition but there doesn't seem to be much of it left :(
> Hey ho, I can feel a 'build a new history.snw from article files and 
> .idxs' util coming on ... (OK, so I can get away without history.snw 

Expire will build one for you if you set it to do so.

-- 
Malcolm S. Muir                               Demon Internet Ltd.
Sunderland                                    322 Regents Park Road
England                                       London N3 2QQ

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