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Subject: Bad history file: help needed to fix
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Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 15:16:13 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  4 15:16:13 1985
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Organization: Nicolet Instrument Corp. Madison WI
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[Munch   Munch   Munch   HUMMM, that history file sure tasted good!!!!]

As can be surmised from the line above, our history file received some damage.
At this point, reason is unknown.  Because our history file is not up-to-date,
articles are not getting removed when expire is run.

How does one rebuild the data in the history file?  Looking at the code, I 
discovered the -r option, but since C is still relatively new, haven't exactly
figured out what the -r option does.  I did start it to see what would happen.
Well that ended in failure, as it hung up on the sort portion of the code.

Any and all suggestions on how to rebuild our history file would be appreciated.

Mike Brown
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