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MERGEACTIVE(8CN)                                              MERGEACTIVE(8CN)

NAME
       mergeactive - bulk addition of newsgroups, merging in other site's
       active file

SYNOPSIS
       mergeactive [ -# ] file ...

DESCRIPTION
       Mergeactive does mass addition of newsgroups to the active file, in the
       way that is usually most useful: it merges in an active file obtained
       from another host.  The file argument(s) (standard input if none) are
       concatenated, checked for various inconsistencies, and then merged in.

       The merging process preserves existing newsgroups in active, adding
       only ones not yet known on this host.  The second and third fields of
       new newsgroups are initialized to 0000000000 and 00001 respectively.

       The -# option suppresses the final substitution of the new files for
       the old ones, leaving the new active file as active.tmp and the new
       active.times file as actimes.tmp, for testing or debugging.

SEE ALSO
       newsdb(5), addgroup(8CN)

HISTORY
       Written at U of Toronto by Henry Spencer.

BUGS
       Does not check the new newsgroups to see whether they are in the sys
       file's subscription list for this site.

       Possibly should be fussier about syntactic correctness of new newsgroup
       names; at present it only checks for a few glaring mistakes.

                                 16 Sept 1994                 MERGEACTIVE(8CN)