Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!menlo70!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) Newsgroups: net.news.b Subject: readnews speed improvement fix wanted Message-ID: <724@nsc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 21:29:08 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.724 Posted: Thu Mar 1 21:29:08 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Mar-84 03:26:31 EST Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale Lines: 15 Some while back there was a modification to readnews posted so that it wasn't so painfully slow when initializing a .newsrc on a system that had been about for a while. It did this by opening the directory instead of vainly stat()ing its way up the line. Can somebody replace my now missing copy of that, or suggest a reasonable alternative? thanks in advance, chuq -- From the Citadel of the Autarch: Chuqui the Plaid {fortune,menlo70}!nsc!chuqui P.S. Nuke Wobegon! A relationship is like a shark. It has to keep moving forward or it dies. What we have here is definitely a dead shark.