Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!mhres!jv From: jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: rn saving files very slow Message-ID: Date: 30 Jun 89 15:46:23 GMT References: <199981@hrc.UUCP> Sender: jv@mhres.mh.nl Reply-To: Johan Vromans Organization: Multihouse Gouda, the Netherlands Lines: 20 In-reply-to: dan@hrc.UUCP's message of 29 Jun 89 16:12:24 GMT In article <199981@hrc.UUCP> dan@hrc.UUCP (Dan Troxel) writes: > I am saving files from the net in mailbox format from rn. It takes > many times longer to save a file in rn than it did in vnews. Is > there something I have set up incorrectly to cause such slow saves? Long time ago, before I abandoned rn, I noticed the same, and wrote a small, fast mbox-saver program to be used instead of the slow shell script. If there is interest, I can mail or post it, although it is rather trivial. Johan -- Johan Vromans jv@mh.nl via european backbone (mcvax) Multihouse Automatisering bv uucp: ..!{mcvax,hp4nl}!mh.nl!jv Doesburgweg 7 phone: +31 1820 62944 2803 PL Gouda - The Netherlands fax: +31 1820 62500