Re: uqwk question
Gary H (garyh@sco.COM)
Tue, 25 Jun 1996 15:30:17 -0700
Arnoud "Galactus" Engelfriet <galactus@stack.urc.tue.nl> wrote:
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|In article <gNwzxsZA/1UB090yn@sco.com>,
|Gary H <garyh@sco.COM> wrote:
|> "Steven M. Sawczyn" <sms@sawnet.com> wrote:
|> |Hi, recently, I installed uqwk 1.8 on my Linux machine which is connected
|> |via a 56 K line to the net. When retrieving news, however, I notice that
|> |UQWK takes forever before it starts retrieving the news. Example:
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|> I seem to wait a long time posting on a SCO Unix machine. Somedays it is
|> almost instant, somedays I will have to wait 1-3 minutes.
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|If I remember correctly (it's been a while since I last read uqwk's
|source), uqwk first retrieves a list of all the newsgroups on your
|server, and only then will it start downloading news. Since that
|list can be a few hundred K, it can take a while.
My newsrc file only contains about 8 newsgroups. I deleted the rest.
Makes download very easy.
Gary