Re: Reclaimbing space in news.dat

From: Bob Paddock (bpaddock@csonline.net)
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 14:53:37 -0500

>>You can shrink the news.dat file by running:
>>
>>rebuild -s
>
>
>Wow, what a difference that made! I guess I paid too much attention to
>the warning which stated not to run rebuild unless something was really
>wrong.

I've noticed that using rebuild -s some times marks articles
as read that I've not yet read. So I usually do -s -u to
be safe.

The program 'yarnpack' also packs the data base, and I've
yet to have it do any thing odd, which I can't say the same
for 'rebuild'.

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