TLIMONCE@DRUNIVAC.BITNET (Tom Limoncelli @ Drew University) (12/13/89)
It serves me right for ignoring it when it happened to someone else a while ago. My newsskim_alt was doing a CONVERT/RELAIM and I got: %CONV-F-OPENOUT, error opening _DUA2:[NEWSMGR.NEWS]HISTORY.V60; as output -RMS-F-FLG, invalid key definition flags for key = 0 So, what do I have to do? -Tom
gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston) (12/16/89)
>My newsskim_alt was doing a CONVERT/RELAIM and I got: > >%CONV-F-OPENOUT, error opening _DUA2:[NEWSMGR.NEWS]HISTORY.V60; as output >-RMS-F-FLG, invalid key definition flags for key = 0 > the drastic first aid is to get a new version of the file created.. delete the history.v60 file - NEWS will automatically create the file when required to do so on the next execution. the contents of the file are a history of old message ids used to prevent long period news loops - in general the test of the Path: line is adequate, so the history file is really added insurance rather than necessary information Geoff Huston