Re: How to shrink news.dat?

Dom (trent@rsc.co.uk)
Sat, 14 Dec 1996 01:43:39 +0000 (GMT)

On Fri, 13 Dec 1996, Larry Caldwell wrote:

> 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?

IIRC you have to do a rebuild -s to shrink it after expiring...

Dom