Re: News.dat
Thorsten Oberbossel (Oberboss@pprz02.hrz.Uni-Marburg.DE)
Wed, 18 Sep 1996 12:18:31 +0200
In order to find help "Merv Curley" <mervc@pathcom.com> wrote:
>This file has reached 11 + megs on my system and when I expire messages
>it doesn't seem to get any smaller. I haven't found any mention of the
>file in the Doc's [ but I often miss things ]. Does this file grow
>forever?
No, it doesn't. But you have to use the rebuild tool of yarn, followed
by an "-s" parameter. This fixes the spool file "News.dat" and reduces
the occupied memory to the necessary amount of memory for the unread
data. >
>Merv
I hope I could help you.
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