stealth@caen.engin.umich.edu (Mike Pelletier) (08/17/90)
I'm wondering how to go about running C-news without using the DBM
or DBZ files. I only have one feed, so duplicate articles are not
a problem, but diskspace certainly is. Any suggestions on procedure?
Thanks...
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In article <1990Aug16.204624.2609@caen.engin.umich.edu> stealth@caen.engin.umich.edu (Mike Pelletier) writes: >I'm wondering how to go about running C-news without using the DBM >or DBZ files. I only have one feed, so duplicate articles are not >a problem, but diskspace certainly is. Any suggestions on procedure? Difficult to arrange, and not really much help if you run dbz. The dbz file is about 5 bytes per history-file line, so the text file is much larger than the dbz index into it. You can't get rid of the text file if you want expire to work, and the text file is in any case only one line per article, so the articles themselves are the dominant space cost. This is true even with dbm, actually. -- It is not possible to both understand | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology and appreciate Intel CPUs. -D.Wolfskill| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry