Re: Expire problems

From: Richard Steiner (rsteiner@skypoint.com)
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 17:22:34 -0600

Here in list.yarn, labrat@pobox.com spake unto us, saying:

>On Thu, 18 Dec 1997 23:23:41 GMT+1,
>Markus Quandt <markus.quandt@uni-koeln.de> wrote this about
>Re: Expire problems:
>
>>And to LabRat: What is NNGIN? Never heard of this.
>
>NNIGN is one of Tim Middleton's Yarn utilities, and stands for 'No
>News Is Good News.' It analyses your existing newsbase and tells you
>how big you newsbase is, how much space is used by non-expired
>messages, how much free space exists, how much is wasted between
>messages and how many blocks there are.

It's pretty cool, and it produces a display that looks like this:

------------ Screen Cut by ClipIt! ------------
Your Wish> nnign

News spool size is 21,460,315 bytes (97/12/21 17:23)
+------------+--------------------------------+-----------------------------+
| Block Type | Bytes | Blocks | % | Average | Biggest | Tiniest |
+------------+--------------------------------+-----------------------------+
| In Use | 10,828,897 | 4,771 | 50.6% | 2,269 | 64,437 | 496 |
|-[Articles]-| 10,692,401 + 4,771 + 50.0% | 2,241 + 64,437 + 496 |
|-[Slack]----| 136,496 + 309 + 0.6% | 28 + 1,023 + 1 |
| Available | 10,572,478 | 139 | 49.4% | 76,060 | 6539672 | 703 |
+------------+--------------------------------+-----------------------------+

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