[sent to Rich, as Yarn likes to do, with CC's to yarn-list and Dan]
In lists.yarn-list, article <1RPIyoHpvKZe091yn@skypoint.com>, you wrote:
>This was posted on the newsgroup specified in the header, and sounds to
>me like a nasty problem. Perhaps someone who knows the answer might want
>to e-mail this guy...?
>
>-------- Forwarded message --------
>Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.mail-news
>Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 15:31:36 +0900
>From: dkanagy@gol.com (Dan Kanagy)
>Subject: "Assertion failed" error with Yarn's expire program
>
>I just started getting the following error when I run Yarn's expire
>program. What might be the problem and how should I fix it? FWIW,
>news.dat is actually only 8 megs in size.
>
>Article at offset 6715990 has size 1308622850. Skipped 650 bytes.
>Assertion failed: blk.prev + free.size + sizeof(BlockHeader) == delOffset, file
>..\SPOOLFIL.CPP, line 235
>ABNORMAL TERMINATION
I got this error whenever I used 'expire -r' on OS/2 (for those who
don't know, the poster is on OS/2 too). Since I switched to 'expire -o'
instead, I haven't seen this.
Although deleting NEWS.DAT also worked, until it came back again.
(Note: some members of yarn-list have noted that you might want to run
rebuild with various options after deleting NEWS.DAT. I've never done
that, and perhaps that is the cause of these errors recurring.)
>_____________________________________________________________________________
>Dan Kanagy finger for PGP public key dkanagy@gol.com
>Tokyo, Japan wordwise@netcom.com
>
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