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From: grady@fxgrp.fx.com (Steven Grady)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: dbz is a must!
Summary: dbz and NNTP
Message-ID: <1989Jul6.003048.25616@fxgrp.fx.com>
Date: 6 Jul 89 00:30:48 GMT
References: <1989Jul4.183539.19106@ivucsb.sba.ca.us>
Reply-To: grady@postgres.berkeley.edu (Steven Grady)
Organization: FX Development Group, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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In article <1989Jul4.183539.19106@ivucsb.sba.ca.us> todd@ivucsb.sba.ca.us (Todd Day) writes:
>Just recompile Cnews using dbz, and boy does it scream now!  Whereas
>before on my UNIXPC, it would take about 10-15 secs per article, it
>now takes less than a second per article.

OK, so I've heard many people say dbz is a win.  My problem is that we
use NNTP to read news from client machines (although we receive news
via UUCP).  NNTP wants to read the history DBM files.  We have suns
(SunOS 4.0), and I've compiled nntp with NDBM.  Are the dbm
files compatible?  Is the dbm interface compatible with dbz?
It appears as though I could switch to dbz by defining DBM in 
nntp/common/conf.h, and adding the dbz library to the server LIBS.  
Is this correct? Should I do it?

	Steven
	...!ucbvax!grady
	grady@postgres.berkeley.edu

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