On August 23, 1998 at 14:02, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> The actually file that it gets the archive from has ~976 messages
> in it, but the mhonarc -outdir currently has: 6600 msg* files in it.
>
> I'm using the following to create the archive:
>
> mhonarc -add -rcfile ../.resource -outdir 1997-01 \
> archive/pgsql-hackers.199701
...
>
> I just wiped out the 1997-01 directory, and am recreating it,
> using the above command:
>
> pgsql> ls 1997-01 | wc -l
> 964
>
> Trying it a second time, using exactly the same command and the
> same archive file, I should get 'No new messages', correct?
Do your messages have message-ids? If not, then do not use -add.
See <URL:http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/MHonArc/faq/archives.html#dups>.
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