This is a public reply to your message posted:
From group: list.yarn; on Thu, 02 Dec 1999 22:13:13 +0000
Concerning "Re: Reclaimbing space in news.dat";
~ > >>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. Nothing was really wrong, but my hard drive was getting fuller
~ > >and fuller.
~ > >
~ >
~ > Well I just had to try it. It shrank from nearly 12Mb to just under
~ > 4Mb.
I thought the denizens of this group might find my experience amusing.
I'm still using version 89 so my files are separated out. I have 831
files totalling 121 Mb.
I have all the messages from several groups running back more than a
year, and one with just about 20,000 messages in it. I almost never
post questions. I just search my message base.
Cordially;
-- Friar Broccoli Robert Keith Elias (Quebec, Qc, Canada) Address: kelias@CLIC.NET Best programmer's & all purpose text editor: http://www.semware.com--------- I consider ALL arguments in support of my views ---------