Re: DIS always adds newsbase\00000000.*

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From: Malcolm Muir
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 00:00

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Mark Rogers (mcr@holly.demon.co.uk) wrote:

> I noticed today that DIS (or is it ADDGROUP?) always adds the newsbase 
> file 00000000 and its accociated index file. Regardless of whether ACTIVE 
> actually defines this group (I have junk assigned to the filename "junk" 
> instead).

If you have altered the code to call '00000000' junk, then you should
also alter the code that checks for the presence of '00000000' to
check for junk instead :)

Addgroup does indeed check '00000000' is present, recreating it if
missing.

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

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