Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!b-tech!zeeff From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Cnews and dbm Message-ID: <9473@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> Date: 22 Jun 89 00:27:48 GMT Reply-To: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) Organization: Branch Technology Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 9 If you are installing cnews on a system without dbm, make sure you say you have dbm and use the dbz supplied in the contrib directory. If you have dbm, you may want to use dbz anyway. It uses less disk space and is ~20 times faster (at least in my tests). I have no idea what difference this will make in overall cnews performance. -- Jon Zeeff zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us Ann Arbor, MI sharkey!b-tech!zeeff