Re: Yarn 0.91 expire -r bug

Carl D. Cravens (ravenpub@southwind.net)
Fri, 28 Jun 1996 22:57:53 -0500

On Fri, 28 Jun 1996 13:42:09 -0400, mtj@iglou.com (Michael Jones) wrote:
>If this is the case, then it's not a bug, it's the way Chin is
>handling the newsbase from .9x up (I presume he won't be going back to
>the old way -- just as well, because I prefer it this way).

I'm curious as to why you prefer it. It takes up disk space that isn't
being used and (at least on my systems) expires now crawl at a snail's
pace compared to the speed they used to run at. I haven't seen any
user-end benefits of the new format. (I'm assuming that it's done
something useful/timesaving on the programmer side.)

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