Sean Eric FaganOk question for fellow oldies: my #CNews active file has gotten corrupt, how do I rebuild it? I can write a script to do it, if I have to, but I'd prefer not to rebuild a hexagonal wheel...
FRANK.MCCONNEL@kithrup oh wow it's been about 30 years since I last ran C news, and you might have got that script written and run by now. This'll be tradspool, right? Am thinking you could get the group name from the directory path and the high and low numbers from article names (numbers) in the directory.
@hairyvisionary Yeah, normal spool layout. The algorithm is just to cycle through each line in the corrupt file, find the lowest & highest article in each group, and spit that out for the new file. It's not *hard*, but I assumed there was already such a recovery mechanism!
@kithrup I can remember a recovery mechanism of "newfs it, you'll get more articles" but that was INN on Linux on Alpha when Linux on Alpha was a new new thing