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  marc@lobotomy.demon.co.uk (Marc CR Bouron) 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....

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).

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).

This probably doesn't help too much?

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Stewart A. Reid
sareid@sargu.demon.co.uk