Re: Delete NEWS.DAT?

Jon Duckworth (jond@biddeford.com)
Sun, 11 Aug 1996 18:20:54 -0400

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In article <n0RDys67JuwI090yn@World.std.com>, you wrote:
>I have no unread articles. I ran EXPIREX -r and then REBUILD -s.
>My NEWS.DAT file still has 18,000 bytes in it. I am assuming the
>NEWS.DAT file should be empty. Can I just delete the NEWS.DAT
>file?
>
>I am running YARN.090 for DOS.

With Yarn 0.91 for OS/2 (I'm assuming it's the same for 0.90/DOS), if
you're sure there is nothing left in the newsbase that you want, go
ahead and delete it. IMPORT should create a new one with no problems
the next time you download and import mail/news.

>Jim Roberts

Jon
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