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Article #4710Re: Automatically flushing C News history.o
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 06:18
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 06:18
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In article <BzuC3B.LEz@ssr.com> sdb@ssr.com (Scott Ballantyne) writes:
> >-v has nothing to do with it.
>
>-v has eveything to do with it. Here are the lines from the end of doexpire:
>
> if test -s /tmp/doex$$
> then
> (echo 'expire problems:' ; cat /tmp/doex$$ ) | mail "$NEWSMASTER"
> rm -f /tmp/doex$$
> exit 1
> fi
> rm -f /tmp/doex$$ $NEWSCTL/history.o
> exit 0
> ...
>This is the doexpire from the nov release, so perhaps this is a change
>from earlier versions.
Uh, what do you mean, "the nov release"??? There was no November release.
The code above does not appear in *any* C News release we have ever shipped.
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Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!torn!utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Automatically flushing C News history.o Message-ID: <Bzus6z.9FF@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 06:18:31 GMT References: <MRL.92Dec18123306@sun4.uai.com> <BzJ66K.6zr@zoo.toronto.edu> <Bzo27w.2Lv@ssr.com> <BzqItJ.L16@zoo.toronto.edu> <BzuC3B.LEz@ssr.com> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 22