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From: edward@engr.uky.edu (Edward C. Bennett)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: HELP with expire
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Date: 17 Dec 87 17:21:02 GMT
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In article <775@grc.UUCP> don@grc.UUCP (Donald D. Woelz) writes:
]I am having much trouble getting expire to work correctly on my
]system.  It seems that the only thing that works correctly is
]
]     expire -hir
]
](some of the options may be redundant, I know).  But just plain
]expire won't work and neither will expire -i or expire -I or
]expire -e10 -[iI].
]
]I am running System V Release 2 on a NSC32000 based machine.

I can't tell you how to fix it I can tell you that I have
the same problem. My "solution" is to just include the -h
flag and then weekly rebuild the history file. (Yeah, yeah,
I know, 'expire -r' losses all the information on past
articles. I'm on a leaf node, I don't care.)

One of these days I plan to take expire apart and fix it....
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