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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Why does cnews tell me "relaynews: can't link to `comp/misc/28'"?
Message-ID: <1990Sep23.001049.16003@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Sep10.160446.3440@shibaya.lonestar.org> <1990Sep12.034202.9368@groucho> <1990Sep21.041737.707@slum.MV.COM>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 90 00:10:49 GMT

In article <1990Sep21.041737.707@slum.MV.COM> laird@slum.MV.COM (Laird Heal) writes:
>takes relaynews just about forever:  is this normal, any clues?  I had
>to use the supplied dbm...

If you are using the dbm emulation supplied with old C News distributions,
you badly need to update to current software.  That old emulation was a
performance disaster.  You should be using either dbz or your system's
dbm (if any).
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