Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!usc!bbn!oliveb!amdahl!drivax!davison From: davison@drivax.UUCP (Wayne Davison) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: C News, 386/ix, assorted questions/experiences Message-ID: <24E7016E.1749@drivax.UUCP> Date: 14 Aug 89 17:29:16 GMT References: <1989Aug13.161806.15829@jdyx.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Digital Research, Monterey, CA. Lines: 28 tpf@jdyx.UUCP (Tom Friedel) writes: >I am running nn, which expires based upon 3 field in active file. >C News does not update this field with expire, and upact is murder >on my disk drive. Are you at least running the modified version of upact that replaces the min=`ls $NEWSARTS/$dir | egrep '^[0-9]+$' | sort -nr | tail -1` with min=`lowest $NEWSARTS/$dir` (after building and installing lowest, of course)? This in itself decreased the running time of upact from slightly over 14 minutes to about 7 minutes & 20 seconds. (We run 4.3BSD on a vax 11/780 with only about 30 meg of news on-line). I only discovered this "option" after writing an entirely C version of my own (but it executes in 30 seconds, so I'm not complaining). I'm going to send it to the C news folk for their perusal as an optional upact (it requires directory functions, so they probably won't want to make it the default, like "lowest" isn't the default). Also, it is my firm belief that empty newsgroups should have their min field set to one higher than their max field -- newsreaders like rn & nn interpret this as an empty group rather than a group with 1 non-existant message. I wrote my upact that way, and modified addgroup to start with an initial value of "group.name 0000000000 0000000001". -- Wayne Davison \ /| / /| \/ /| /(_) davison@drivax.UUCP (_)/ |/ /\| / / |/ \ ...!amdahl!drivax!davison