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From: brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Argh! Duplicates abound!
Message-ID: <1990Dec05.143120.10507@cs.widener.edu>
Date: 5 Dec 90 14:31:20 GMT
References: <1990Nov29.081325.8461@cs.widener.edu> <1990Dec5.034523.21682@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In <1990Dec5.034523.21682@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>I assume you are using cnews since you mention dbz.

 Yep. Sorry I neglected to mention it.

>The msgidd code can be obtained either from the NNTP managers archive on
>either ucbvax or ucbarpa.berkeley.edu or in the file pub/nntp-1.5.10+.tar.Z
>on uxc.cso.uiuc.edu.

 Thanks for the suggestion -- I'll check it out.
 It turns out that the problem was using NDBM at all. At least in
Sun's version it dies miserably. When I built NNTP with DBM & DBZ, it
worked like a dream! Over 3100 articles with *no* duplicates. You've
no idea how good that feels. Hehe.

 My thanks to everyone that responded. (Especially to Syd Weinstein
for putting up with my continuous stream of babble as I was trying to
get this thing figured out.)



-- 
    Brendan Kehoe - Widener Sun Network Manager - brendan@cs.widener.edu
 Widener University in Chester PA              A Bloody Sun-vs-Dec War Zone
 Hey ... do you think George Bush carries money or any kind of ID with him?