Re: Expire problem in cnews

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 1990 17:49

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In article <1990Aug13.135321.240@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> aem@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (a.e.mossberg) writes:
>I'm having a problem with expire and I can't find the problem in the
>cnews docs. It appears to be a problem with the history file, but I
>don't know what the solution would be. Before I try to rebuild the
>history file, does anyone know for sure what this:
>
>expire problems:
>expire: wrong number of fields in `...'
>expire: bad return from doline(): `'

This means "empty or mangled line in the history file", and the simple fix
is a rebuild.
-- 
It is not possible to both understand  | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
and appreciate Intel CPUs. -D.Wolfskill|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry

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