Re: Excessively Large NEWS.DAT File

Marv Uphaus (muphaus@cris.com)
Tue, 23 Apr 1996 02:03:55 -0500

On Sun, 21 Apr 1996 21:30:56 GMT will@spuddy.mew.co.uk (William Boughton) wrote:

>I have had problems with this, i found that if you rmgroup agroup before
>you expire all articles in it you can't get rid of the articles from
>the news.dat, i've run rebuild several times but it has no effect on
>rmgrouped groups that were not expired 1st.

Yes, this has been a problem for a LONG time... I can't remember a version
of YARN that did not have this problem... I started with YARN 0.63, I
think...

I am now running 0.85... You must run "expire -o -d999 {newsgroup}" to get
rid of the articles before you run "rmgroup"... Chin should not release
another version of YARN until this is fixed...

ARE YOU LISTENING, CHIN...!!!

Marv...

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