Re: How to reclaim space in news.dat?

Jens Bang (jbang@image.dk)
Sun, 29 Dec 1996 04:34:56 +0100

In article <po5wyor+BwJF092yn@delta1.deltanet.com>,
tdb@delta1.deltanet.com (Tom D. Baccanti) wrote:
>Wasn't that what you wanted to accomplish? To reduce the size
>of the news dat file. Thats what it did.

Yes, I wanted to shrink my news.dat. Notice the word _shrink_, not remove.
What I said was deleting my news.dat and doing a rebuild -o didn't shrink
my news.dat, it obliterated it! It went from 95 _mega_ bytes to 20 _bytes_.
Not quite what I wanted.

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