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From: Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>
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Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Wed, 6 May 2009, Dave Korn wrote:

> Given that the directory is corrupted, I wouldn't trust a reconvert script 
> to find the database in a suitable state.  Use 
> infra/ml-archiving/ml-regen-from-txtfiles.sh, as referenced in 
> <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/overseers/2004-q1/msg00152.html>, unless it 
> proves impossible to make it work.

  That apparently requires to be run su mailarch, which is beyond my privs,
but I think I could usefully write a script to generate not-archived files for
the missing stuff with which to feed it.

    cheers,
      DaveK