Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Cnews questions
Message-ID: <1989Sep25.173822.18875@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <643@wash08.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 89 17:38:22 GMT

In article <643@wash08.UUCP> rae98@wash08.UUCP (Robert A. Earl) writes:
>I have just installed cnews on my system (NCR Tower 32/650, SYSVR2)
>and I have a question.
>
>It seems that the unbatching of articles is taking forever! ...

Are you using the original fake dbm library, or dbz?  If the former, switch
to the latter.  The old fake is much more of a performance disaster than
we first thought, whereas dbz performs very well.  (You can find dbz in the
contrib directory.  Note that you will need to rebuild your history file.)

As soon as I can find some time to work on it -- Geoff and I do get paid
to work on other things than C News! -- the old fake will vanish completely
and dbz will become the definitive dbm replacement.
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