I used to use expire -o set to 7 days but I changed
and now run expire -r whenever the message bank gets
a bit big. Both work fine.
Cheers
Mike
yngvar.folling@login.eunet.no (Yngvar Folling) wrote:
>After continuing running the extended DOS version some time after I got
>Windows 95, I've switched to Yarn 95. It calls itself "beta." Is there
>a final version available?
>
>Often when running EXPIRE -r, it suddenly stops with the message:
>
>Assertion failed: blk.prev + free.size + sizeof(BlockHeader) == delOffset, file
>..\SPOOLFIL.CPP, line 235
>ABNORMAL TERMINATION
>
>Running Yarn reveals that the articles are still gone, but based on a
>previous mistake I'm worried that the space they occupied in the
>NEWS.DAT file may not be reclaimed. I may run REBUILD -s, but in the
>long run, that usually makes the NEWS.DAT file *grow* rather than
>shrink, as EXPIRE -o stops working for a week. I can't read
>*everything*, so EXPIRE -r is not sufficient, and using Catchup on a
>newsgroup empties it completely, which I don't want either.
>
>I have some other problems with Yarn 95 as well. The Caps Lock key
>behaves strangely -- shifting *every* key on the keyboard, rather than
>just the letters. And saving file names with national characters won't
>work.
>
>I am tempted to return to the DOS version again, even though I'll miss
>long file names (a small inconvenience compared to the loss of national
>characters in file names), and shelling out and running Windows apps
>works a lot more reliably now.
>
>Yngvar
>
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