I had this problem infrequently. In my case, I think (ow, there goes
my headache again) the problem arises when I run out of disk space on
a packet download. Binaries take up SO MUCH room. This gives me a
false header and mungs up my newsbase. When the bad articles expire,
then I start getting errors, along with the false pointers I've
mentioned here before.
>I usually only run "expire -r."
Maybe these were messages that were masked by the -r flag but show up
in -o? Score values can have a factor in this scheme.
>I've seen other of other people mention this, but I think it was the DOS
>version of Yarn.
Not just the DOS version.
>The command line was run from a .cmd file, which included,
>
>expire -o -d 60 alt.binaries.pictures.football 60 expired
>rebuild -s
>
>Assertion failed: blk.prev + free.size + sizeof(BlockHeader) == delOffset, file
>..\SPOOLFIL.CPP, line 235
>ABNORMAL TERMINATION
>
>Rebuilding spool file d:\HOME\YARN\news.dat
>Article at offset 4012549 has size 1836016430. Skipped 2072 bytes.
> ^^^^^^^^^^
> this probably had something
> to do with it? :-?
You betcha.
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