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From: oc@vmp.com (Orlan Cannon)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Is there a way to expire to a specified free disk space?
Keywords: expire, space
Message-ID: <1990Nov7.224025.694@vmp.com>
Date: 7 Nov 90 22:40:25 GMT
References: <1990Nov6.181747.21191@bhpcpd.kembla.oz.au> <!PD_V*A@b-tech.uucp>
Organization: Video Marketing & Publications, Inc., Oradell, NJ
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In article <!PD_V*A@b-tech.uucp> zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes:
>>I have often wondered if there was a nice easy way to expire news until
>>a specified quantity of disk space if freed.
>
>What you need is my rnews.c package.  It's faster, more secure, and
>does smart expires (you never overflow your news partition).

Said package was just recently posted in "alt.sources" (it reached here
today).


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Orlan Cannon                            oc@vmp.com
Video Marketing & Publications, Inc.    (800) 627-4551
Oradell, NJ 07649


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