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news@geovision.gvc.com (News Administrator) writes:

>I know this one comes up fairly frequently, but I don't remember the answer.
>My problem can be summarized by the following from the errlog file:

>relaynews: article number (100000) too big for group `junk' active field of 5 digits
>relaynews: can't file in junk group; is it absent from active?

>How do I increase the length of the numbers in active?  (For now, I'm just
>going to lock news, then manually increase the entry for junk, but there
>_must_ be a better way.)

To answer my own question - this is what I did (modulu screwing up my
active file twice):
  locknews
  vi active
  :g/^[^ ]/s/^\([^ ][^ ]*\) \([0-9][0-9]*\)/\1 0000\2/
  ZZ
  ^D

Any suggestions for improvement, comments, etc.
(Thanks for Mark Brader's quick response)

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Paul Tomblin, News Administrator Extraordinaire.  (pt@geovision.gvc.com)
I just administer the news, I don't make or state policy.