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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Incredibly slow C News unbatch
Message-ID: <1991Jan8.222513.262@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1991Jan8.192242.1330@vicom.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 1991 22:25:13 GMT

In article <1991Jan8.192242.1330@vicom.com> lmb@vicom.com (Larry Blair) writes:
>I tried to install C News on an HP 370 under HP-UX 6.5.  When relaynews
>runs, it unbatches at about 3 articles per _minute_.  What's wrong?

The standard reason for this is that you have an extremely old C News
and you are using our old dbm emulation, which was a performance disaster.
Get a modern copy of the software, with dbz.
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