makehistory question

[Paul Theodoropoulos]

due to several failed expires, i had to blow away the nearly 2G history 
file on my reader box (was going into swap thrash during expire). figured 
it was as good a time as any to move to the latest snapshot (i was nearly a 
month behind). wiped out buffindexed overview, ran the makehistory as per 
the man page. ran fine for seven hours then - for reasons i'm not sure 
about - makehistory bailed (could have been due to loss of controlling tty, 
my windows pc crashed, taking my ssh session with it - it ran for a couple 
of hours on it's own, but one never knows).

in any case, my history file was back up to 800M at that point. i've 
already wiped out the overview buffers again, however i'm wondering about 
the 'append' mode listed in the man page - "If the '-a' flag is given then 
the history is opened as appended mode".  does that mean that if i restart 
makehistory per the man page example - adding the -a flag - it can pick up 
where it left off? that would sure save a lot of time, since i believe the 
correct size of the history is something on the order of 1.3G...

(i was using 'makehistory -b -f history.n -O -l 300000 -I')
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Paul Theodoropoulos                    Advanced TelCom Group Inc.
Senior Unix Systems Administrator      Internet Services Division
paul at atgi.net                          Santa Rosa, California, US
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