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Article #4704Re: expire: wrong number of fields in history
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 23:03
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 23:03
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In article <1992Dec18.195938.27336@investor.pgh.pa.us> rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305) writes:
>... edited the history file to fix it. I
>think I could have done that earlier at no greater risk. The problem
>is I don't know what risk I was taking! It seems to have worked but
>I don't know for sure yet.
Actually, you should have rebuilt the dbz database afterwards, since it
knows the offsets of entries in the history file. Running expire would
suffice to look after that (although it's not the quickest way).
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"God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
-Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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