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In article <822081014_OASIS_@sargu.demon.co.uk>
           sareid@sargu.demon.co.uk "Stewart A. Reid" writes:

>  In article <816718530snz@lobotomy.demon.co.uk> I said:-
> 
> >I seem to be having trouble with expire.ttp.  Most of the time it will report
> >a disk error expiring comp.sys.atari.st or ...st.tech (two of about a dozen
> 
> Hate to state the obvious....

Oh, go on then!  :-)

> Got enough disk space for a copy of the news file? (I think it creates
> a new file to store everything that it's going to  keep, then copies
> this over the origional news file at the end - I could be wrong here).

Bags of space.  This is a 105Mb SyQuest with nowt but NOS on it.

> Bad sectors?
> 
> There is a problem with expire.ttp, but you only get this with a 
> long list of cross-postings. If I remember correctly it gave you
> a bus/address error whilst expiring the history file (if you really 
> want to know - it reads something like 256 characters from a line and 
> then searches it's copy for the end-of-line marker. On long
> lines this was never read causing the thing to search through memory
> until the machine went 'ping' - sloppy programming).

Hmmm...  Sounds lovely.  :-/  Actually, since I've manually expired the history
file (which was bloody huge) I've not hit this problem since.  I've now taken
to expiring as soon as I've finished reading my news.  So far, so good.

> This probably doesn't help too much?

I wouldn't say that!  Thanks for your input.

Cheers,

[M][a][r][c]
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