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From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: problem steping through the dir menu on high volume newsgroups
Message-ID: <14987.253c5f95@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 18 Oct 89 16:33:40 GMT
References: <2255@ddnvx1.afwl.af.mil>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <2255@ddnvx1.afwl.af.mil>, RIDOUT@ddnvx1.afwl.af.mil
 (Brian Ridout AFWL/SCEV (av) 244-1654 (505) 844-1654) writes:
> Hi all,
> 	I have been running ANU-NEWS V5.8A for a while now and have
> been having a problem ever since I got a news feed.  whenever the
> number of news items in a group get over some number it is difficult
> to read the items.

If I had to guess, I would guess that you are running VMS 4.7 or earlier.
There is a restriction in SMG of no more than 64000 characters on a virtual
screen.  Having more than about 850 articles in a group exceeds this limit.
Back when we were on VMS 4.7, I played with the /ITEMHOLD value for each
group, and expired them so that they didn't exceed about 750 articles. Most of
my group have /ITEM=21, but a few are 14 or even 10 to keep the total number
of articles under 750. Or you could upgrade to VMS 5.x, which fixed the SMG
problem.
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