Re: C news expire: how do I get rid of this message?

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1990 23:52

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In article <1990Feb26.204931.7667@idt.unit.no> he@idt.unit.no (Havard Eidnes) writes:
>	expire: wrong number of fields in `	635590719~-...'

I replied to the original poster by mail, as requested, but in case folks
are curious:  the message essentially means "corrupted history file", and
the fix is to either make local repairs (if you know what you're doing)
or rebuild history (if you don't).
-- 
"The N in NFS stands for Not, |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
or Need, or perhaps Nightmare"| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu

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