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Re: Automatically flushing C News history.o

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 23:05
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In article <Bzo27w.2Lv@ssr.com> sdb@ssr.com (Scott Ballantyne) writes:
>... writes (about history.o):
>   Modern doexpires automate its removal already.
>
>Unless you use the -v flag to get expire statistics...

-v has nothing to do with it.  You're probably thinking of -r, which
does suppress the history.o removal... because it also suppresses the
history rebuild, so there's no need for the extra space.
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Automatically flushing C News history.o
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