Re: Cnews artnum in active file

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From: Don Lewis
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 1990 05:42

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In article <1990Aug17.034849.17801@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>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...)

Updatemin is fast enough that we run it daily, right after expire.
--
Don "Truck" Lewis                      Harris Semiconductor
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From: del@thrush.mlb.semi.harris.com (Don Lewis)
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Subject: Re: Cnews artnum in active file
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Date: 17 Aug 90 05:42:53 GMT
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