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 In article <829849978_OASIS_@kingres.demon.co.uk>
  simon@kingres.demon.co.uk (Simon King) said:-

>I have noticed that when I get news I seem to unbatch more than I actually
>receive!
>
>Wed Apr 17 17:08:00 1996 - update Domain.txt
>Wed Apr 17 17:08:08 1996 - update Domain.txt finished
>Wed Apr 17 17:08:28 1996 158.152.254.250:119 - News summary: 94 articles (126948 bytes) in 292 sec (434 bytes/sec)
>Wed Apr 17 17:08:28 1996 158.152.254.250:119 - New articles: 2 duplicate, 0 unavailable, 0 headers, 94 complete
>Wed Apr 17 17:08:28 1996 158.152.254.250:119 - History file: 1515 entries, 1 complete scans
>Wed Apr 17 17:08:28 1996 158.152.254.250:119 - Throughput  : 134771/138219 bytes in 292/327 sec (461/421 bytes/sec)
>Wed Apr 17 17:08:40 1996 - NOS was stopped at Wed Apr 17 17:08:40 1996
>
>When the above was unbatched it come out as 102 articles!

You most likely did not unbatch from the last time news was obtained.

>Also some of the articles appear to have part or all of the body of 
>the text missing.

I find this as well. I have never had the inclinination to check if 
they are downloaded like this or get corrupted afterward. I find that 
the existence of these increases the change of things grinding to a 
halt. Expiry or Re-indexing helps a lot.

>Anyone any ideas ??

News is appended to spool\articles\batch.txt. When you get a corrupted 
article, you could have a look in this file for it to see if it is 
complete there. Oasis has a bit of a problem with the last line or two 
of news. This may be contributing toward the problem.


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Guy Harrison

guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk