Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!uunet!wash08!rae98 From: rae98@wash08.uucp (Robert A. Earl) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Cnews questions Message-ID: <1989Sep26.192256.12027@wash08.uucp> Date: 26 Sep 89 19:22:56 GMT References: <643@wash08.UUCP> <1989Sep25.173822.18875@utzoo.uucp> Reply-To: rae98@wash08.UUCP (Robert A. Earl) Organization: American Chemical Society, Washington, DC Lines: 24 In article <1989Sep25.173822.18875@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >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? >[...] 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 I was using the original at the time of the posting. Many thanks to the numerous thoughtful souls who recommended using the dbz routines. News unbatching now proceed at the rate of 2-5 articles per second as opposed to 1-2 per minute. Thanks again! -- =========================================================== Name: Bob Earl Phone: (202) 872-6018 (wk) UUCP: ...!uunet!wash08!rae98 BITNET: rae98@CAS