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From: sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: (C News) limit filesize and inews
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Date: 7 Jan 91 20:35:36 GMT
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In article <1991Jan7.182907.13583@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>If the size of the dbz/dbm file is too large, you could import the (dreaded)
>>B-news USG history directory/file format. Odds are that none of those files
>>would be big enough...
>
>Until news traffic grows a bit more or the user reduces his size limit
>further, that is.  This does not really solve the problem.

Okey, WHAT IS THE SOLUTION THEN?

Just for fun, let's eliminate the "Get the OS fixed" answer.

For even more fun, let's eliminate "change the system wide parameters"
answer, too.

Now, what's the answer?


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