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From: rees@apollo.uucp (Jim Rees)
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Subject: Re: Watch out: ACTIVE file too long...
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Date: Mon, 4-Nov-85 15:35:05 EST
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There are several of these arbitrary upper limits in inews.  I have fixed
most of them, including AFSIZ, by dynamically allocating the required space.
I will try to dig up some diffs that I can post.

Another one to watch out for is LINES, and of course BITMAPSIZE, which you
probably thought was fixed when they went to the three-field active file.
Guess again.  It's still static, although it starts at the lowest article
number now instead of at 0, which helps a little.  You can still get into
trouble with it if you have some groups you never expire, like we do.
Last I checked, we had something like 300 Gigabytes of free disk space.
Eat your heart out.