[net.news.b] readnews speed improvement fix wanted

chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) (03/02/84)

Some while back there was a modification to readnews posted so that it
wasn't so painfully slow when initializing a .newsrc on a system that had
been about for a while. It did this by opening the directory instead of
vainly stat()ing its way up the line. Can somebody replace my now missing
copy of that, or suggest a reasonable alternative?

thanks in advance,
chuq

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