On Sun, 27 Jul 1997 17:56:41 -0500,
In article <pI92zY9GAYNb092yn@onr.com>, labrat@onr.com (Michael Gray) wrote:
[...]
> Well, IMO, Yarn is good, but the imort utility seems to need work. I
> added a new newsgroup, forgot to do a catch-up in Vsoup and got a huge
> newsbase. Out of a 45MB newsbase, I've got ~30MB free space. The
> last message is dated yesterday, and the first is from April. Seems
> to me like *something* is wrong with this.
I think that'd be more a job for a separate packing utility. The
import utility did it's job by importing all the articles you told it
to.
You might try Yarnpack by Tim Middleton <http://www.vex.net/~x>. This
will eliminate all the free space in your news base. Or, you might
try one of the rebuild options.
What I think Yarn needs is either for Chin to bless Tim Middleton's
Yarn pack utility or to rewrite his rebuild utility to keep the expire
dates.
Talk with you later,
bob
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