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From: greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: News delivery problems - old news again
Message-ID: <935@utoday.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 89 01:45:05 GMT
References: <43675@bbn.COM> <651@vector.Dallas.TX.US> <1989Aug3.180304.6252@eci386.uucp> <653@vector.Dallas.TX.US> <1989Aug7.230146.274@servalan.uucp>
Reply-To: greenber@.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg)
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In article <1989Aug7.230146.274@servalan.uucp> rmtodd@servalan.UUCP (Richard Todd) writes:
>  Face it, C News inews really stinks as far as performance goes.  It's written
>as a shell script. 

The alternative might be run C News inews through a shell compiler, such
as Comeau Computing's CCsh.  Turns it into a C program rather nicely.

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