Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 Apollo 5/13/85; site apollo.uucp Path: utzoo!utcsri!ubc-vision!uw-beaver!apollo!rees From: rees@apollo.uucp (Jim Rees) Newsgroups: net.news.b Subject: Re: Bad history file: help needed to fix Message-ID: <29fdfdaf.1de6@apollo.uucp> Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 07:58:26 EST Article-I.D.: apollo.29fdfdaf.1de6 Posted: Thu Nov 7 07:58:26 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 08:57:30 EST References: <411@nicmad.UUCP> Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, Mass. Lines: 13 I never understood why expire -r wants to sort the output anyway. Certainly none of the news software cares what order the lines are in, and the sort can't work because of the format of the date string. I hacked our expire to not do the sort, and it works fine: #ifdef apollo nhfd = xfopen(NARTFILE, "w"); #else sprintf(afline, "sort +2 >%s", NARTFILE); if ((nhfd = popen(afline, "w")) == NULL) xerror("Cannot exec %s", NARTFILE); #endif