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Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 16:06:25 -0500 (EST)
From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
To: Stefan Bethke <stefan.bethke@hanse.de>
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On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Stefan Bethke wrote:

> --On Die, 17. Feb 1998 21:05 Uhr +0100 "Stefan Bethke"
> <stefan.bethke@hanse.de> wrote: 
> > I looked into bin/mailindex, and tried to rebuild the WAIS index by
> removing
> > the locks and .files, so the prepared files are added to the index
> again(?)
> 
> A script of the results of my last attempt are in ~stb/repair-attempts.

I see waisindex dropped a core file.

This is grim.

The freewais source is not a pretty sight.

-john