Re: Cnews artnum in active file

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 1990 03:48

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In article <1990Aug16.185023.26200@squirrel.mh.nl> Johan Vromans <jv@mh.nl> writes:
>I have noted that in the active file, the lower article number always
>remains 1. Is this normal?

This is normal unless you have a crontab entry that occasionally runs
upact (more portable) or updatemin (rather faster).  This is currently
an ill-documented option; it will probably become standard when I get
around to changing it.  We currently run updatemin weekly, for the benefit
of some stupid reader software.  (The lower number is basically an
inadequate kludge that smarter software should never look at, but there
is a lot of dumb software in the world, sigh...)
-- 
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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