On Fri, 19 Jul 1991 10:37:53 EST Stan Horwitz <OASIS@TEMPLEVM> said:
>How did the listserv filelist become corrupt and how can the original
>filelist be restored?
Probably because you used the FILELIST command and did SAVE, or something
like that. FILELIST happily overwrote the file without asking for
confirmation or printing any warning message. The best is to restore the
file from backup.
>What can be done to prevent this problem in the future?
Use a decent, well-behaved interactive directory display program like
FLIST, or make your own EXEC to always make a copy of LISTSERV FILELIST
before you call FILELIST, in case you or one of its functions does a SAVE
by mistake.
Eric