On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Earl Hood wrote:
> 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.
Yes, they do...and from what I can tell with just a cursory
glance, they are all different..
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
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