Re: Shrinking NEWS.DAT?
Otto Lang (mst1@io.org)
Mon, 29 Jul 1996 21:12:25 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 29 Jul 1996, Mark Sullivan wrote:
>
> I used to do the same thing. However, recently I decided to delete all
> the unread news I had hanging around, or move it all to a folder. Then,
> when I ran "expire -r" my NEWS.DAT file shrank back to 20 bytes (that's
> 20, not 20K, not 20 meg). I was so excited about discovering this that I
> now force myself to either delete the days news, or put it in a folder.
I discovered that too, but I used expirex -o -d 30 and it got down
to twenty bytes, but I thought I had done something wrong and
didn't want to get embarrassed as a newbie in YARN.
But, of course, as soon as you import a new.answers or such,
it's right back up there again...
Otto Lang, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Mycophile, <MST1@io.org>
OR <ottolang@torfree.net>