Re: How to shrink news.dat?

Larry Caldwell (larryc@teleport.com)
Fri, 13 Dec 1996 17:34:31 -0800 (PST)

On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Michael Hanson wrote:

> I tried running expire -o on a newsgroup or two to see if that would
> do the trick - it didn't help. Again, it said xxx bytes removed,
> but the file size didn't change.

I have the same problem with the real mode version of the same software.
I was going to post a query, but you beat me to it.

Expire.exe definitely does not shrink the news.dat file. Is there a fix
available?

-- Larry