[news.software.b] corrupt history?

tim@attdso.att.com (Tim J Ihde) (05/30/89)

Twice now I've executed a 'history -r' to rebuild the history file and
found lines from active in history.  Maybe the first thirty or so lines
of the newly created history file are active lines describing groups instead
of history lines describing articles.

The last time I found this was using standard System V news 2.11 PL 14.
Now I've run it again after having added the dbz.c file to eliminate the
history.d files.  This seems to have worked fine, and it is catching duplicate
articles as it should -- BUT I've noticed the active lines in the history
file again.

I've poked around minimally in expire.c, but I don't see where it's doing this,
much less why.

Should I just delete these lines?  That's what I did the last time and it
seemed to work OK.  It does not, however, give me a warm fuzzy feeling.
Should I just shut up and soldier?  Any thoughts?  (If anybody has RTFM
thoughts, please include a reference to which FM I should be looking at . . .)

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