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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: C News breaks on UNIXPC
Message-ID: <1989Jun22.200203.15660@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Jun13.052156.27654@ivucsb.sba.ca.us>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 89 20:02:03 GMT

In article <1989Jun13.052156.27654@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) writes:
>... Cnews is much faster than Bnews, except for
>the news posting.  I would like to see a non-scripted inews.

We have deeply mixed feelings about this ourselves.  Using the shell to do
all that fiddling around in inews and friends is a bit slow -- the one place
where doing things that way really hurts performance.  On the other hand, it
also makes it much easier for people to modify the code to implement local
policies... and there is a lot of potentially-local policy in there.
-- 
NASA is to spaceflight as the  |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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