Re: Excessively Large NEWS.DAT File

Michael Lavallee (mlavalle@ViaNet.on.ca)
Thu, 18 Apr 1996 13:56:20 -0400

In article <ba4_9604171400@sunshine.com>,
Rich.Veraa@907.sunshine.com (Rich Veraa) wrote:

>This thread intrigues me.
>
>I'm using yarn v. 0.89 under OS/2 and I don't have a NEWS.DAT file. My
>message base seems to be entirely in several files with numbers for names,
>like 9607, 9609, 9610 in my i:\yarn\news\ directory.
>
>Am I doing someting wrong? Everything seems to work okay.

Version 0.90 uses a new format. If you ever upgrade to 0.90, and I
wouldn't recommend it, you'll have to run a program to convert your
existing message bases to the new format.

I'm thinking about scrapping it all and going back down to 0.89 myself.

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