Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Converting from B 2.11.19 to C news Message-ID: <1990Dec17.180603.28889@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: Date: Mon, 17 Dec 90 18:06:03 GMT In article palkovic@linac.fnal.gov writes: >I am currently thinking about changing over to C news. I have the >latest and greatest source, patched up to yesterday. I know that I >have to turn off inbound news and flush the outgoing (nntp) queues. >What about the history database? Do I have to convert it or what? Does >the mkhistory script do it for me? ... You'll want to rebuild the history file and its associated dbm/dbz database, since the C News history file has more information in it. Mkhistory will do all the work for you. The only other thing I can think of that's of real note is that you need to make sure that C News and NNTP agree on the flavor of dbm/dbz database being used. The dbz shipped with C News has much smaller files and much higher speed than dbm, but if you want to use it for C News, you have to rebuild NNTP to use it too. Dbz and dbm are *not* file-format compatible. -- "The average pointer, statistically, |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology points somewhere in X." -Hugh Redelmeier| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry