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From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Is there a way to expire to a specified free disk space?
Keywords: expire, space
Message-ID: <!PD_V*A@b-tech.uucp>
Date: 6 Nov 90 16:10:32 GMT
References: <1990Nov6.181747.21191@bhpcpd.kembla.oz.au>
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>I have often wondered if there was a nice easy way to expire news until
>a specified quantity of disk space if freed. This would help to maintain
>free disk space which is currently consumed when news breaks through a
>bottleneck in the network. Under this circumstance, an expire which

What you need is my rnews.c package.  It's faster, more secure, and
does smart expires (you never overflow your news partition).
Let me know if you want a copy.

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Jon Zeeff (NIC handle JZ)	 zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us


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