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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
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Subject: Re: inn port
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Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 05:13:00 -0400
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In article <01bcd6e9$a97d0c80$c4ac43cf@shawn.cpl.net>,
Shawn Ramsey <shawn@cpl.net> wrote:
: >Yes. You should have a history.pag and a .dir; one should be 0
: >and the other small. You also need an active file....
:
: I now have a history(nothing in it, no news articles yet is why I would
: guess), a history.n.dir with this :

You need to have:

history         empty
history.dir     a small text file
history.pag     empty, i'm pretty sure

And you get those by renaming history.n.* to history.*