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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
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Subject: Re: inn port
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In article <01bcd6e3$5ed57920$c4ac43cf@shawn.cpl.net>,
Shawn Ramsey <shawn@cpl.net> wrote:
> If I run ./makehistory, it generates a blank history file in
> /usr/local/news/lib. Is this the proper way to do it?

Yes. You should have a history.pag and a .dir; one should be 0 and
the other small. You also need an active file....