Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!mips!daver!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: cnews expire takes forever Message-ID: <26E63EB7.18F4@tct.uucp> Date: 6 Sep 90 12:19:02 GMT References: <173@usaos.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 10 According to root@usaos.UUCP (Warren D. Calhoun): >Running a test-bed setup of cnews (patches to 25 May 90), expire takes several >hours to run and creates a history.pag file that appears to take up 25 meg. In the maps, usaos is listed as a '386 system running Interactive Unix. I had similar problems on my SCO Unix system when I compiled "dbz" with the optimizer turned on. Recompiling dbz without "-O" and relinking expire might do the trick. -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT ,