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In article <25DFE75F.6A04@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> tar@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey) writes:
>Does anybody have a set of patches to C news to cause it to keep the
>third field of the active file up-to-date?  I imagine that both relaynews
>and expire will need to be patched...

Actually it would only affect expire, since that is (for all practical
purposes) the only thing that discards articles.  If you really want
to be picky, the Supersedes code in relaynews would want to do it too,
but it's probably not worth it.

>I know about upact, that's what I using now.  But it seems foolish not to
>do the updating while you already have the information.  upact is *so*
>slow, and it locks everything up while it runs.

Expire *doesn't* have the information, and getting it is a non-trivial
hassle.  And we supply updatemin for those who are bent on doing this
updating (we've never bothered) and want speed.  A little shell file
which runs expire first and then updatemin will get you all the benefits
of having the updating wired into expire, at zero cost.  (Expire would
have to do most everything updatemin does anyway.)  No patch needed.
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