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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Cnews and dbm
Message-ID: <1989Jun22.133004.4163@twwells.com>
Date: 22 Jun 89 13:30:04 GMT
References: <9473@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Organization: None, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
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In article <9473@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes:
: 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.

Relaynews takes about 1/16'th the time using dbz instead of the thing
provided with C news.

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