Re: Yarn

From: Michael Gray (labrat@onr.com)
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 17:51:57 -0500

On Mon, 28 Jul 1997 08:19:12 -0500,
bobr@mcs.com (Robert P. Rush) wrote this about Re: Yarn:
>Hi fellow Yarners,
>
>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.

Once upon a time (where've I heard that before?) it was stated here on
the list that import was *supposed* to fill the newsbase from the
first available space. The way I see it, it's either filling from the
last available space or maybe the last expired message (but where
would this info be kept and why?) It's true that it's importing fine,
it just seem backwards the way it's done.

>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.

Last I heard here, it was still very much a beta. I'd like to hear
from anybody out there who's used it. I'd rather not do a rebuild
unless there's something really wrong because of the expire date
problem.

>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.

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