Re: Excessively Large NEWS.DAT File

- (w2jc@ritz.mordor.com)
Tue, 16 Apr 1996 15:11:15 -0400

On Tue, 16 Apr 1996 00:21:20 -0400 in yarn.list article about:
'Re: Excessively Large NEWS.DAT File'
mlavalle@ViaNet.on.ca (Michael Lavallee) wrote:

} In article <LXpcxo3qBqsW090yn@airmail.net>,
} pcrown@airmail.net (Phil Crown) wrote:
}
} >This is not a bug, but a new design.
}
} That's what they all say! <GRIN>
}
} >I run 'rebuild -s' after running expire, as someone here suggested, to
} >shrink news.dat down in size.
}
} Didn't work. The file is just over 42 MB now, and there are still
} articles from 27 February. Even stranger, when EXPIRE ran tonight
} it didn't delete anything. :-(

It was mentioned recently that when you run 'rebuild' it sets all the
dates to the current date (ie: the 'expire' time starts counting all
over again). Better to expire -r and get read of what you have read.

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