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From: mp@whuxle.UUCP (Mark Plotnick)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: duplicate lines in active
Message-ID: <267@whuxle.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-Feb-84 10:25:05 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 28 10:25:05 1984
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Organization: Bell Labs, Whippany
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Some people were asking about how the active file gets duplicate lines.

If an article comes in for a newsgroup that doesn't have a directory
under the spooldir, the directory will be created by the mknewsg()
routine in inews.c.  As a free bonus, this routine also adds a line at
the end of the active file, of the form "newsgroupname 00000",
regardless of whether there's already a line for the newsgroup
elsewhere in the file.  This can lead to 2 (or more) lines for the same
newsgroup in active.

	Mark