WinDIS / NewsWin after 9/9/01

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1 total messages Started by Ian Harris Sun, 09 Sep 2001 18:41

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Author: Ian Harris
Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 18:41

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Thought the following might be of interest.

I'm running WinDIS (with the Y2K fix) and NewsWin ... expected some trouble 
after the 9 to 10 digit changeover on 9/9/01.

Everything seemed OK, until I added another newsgroup, whereupon WinDis 
decided it didn't want to unbatch the new newsgroup.

Digging around I discovered that the in the \news\active file, the new 
newsgroup had been given a 9 digit figure after the newsgroup name, but 
only an 8 digit filename had been created in the \Spool\News\Newsbase 
directory.

The active file had the entry as 000055722 as against the filename 
00005572.

Adding another newsgroup gave 000055955 and 00005595.

After manually editing the active file and deleting the last digit so that 
it matched the \newsbase file, Windis quite happily unbatched properly.

-- 

Ian Harris

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