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. -- "Where is D.D. Harriman now, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology when we really *need* him?" | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu