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From: palkovic@linac.fnal.gov (John A. Palkovic)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: trn: is an article read or unread?
Keywords: fast faster
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Date: 19 Jan 91 07:57:49 GMT
References: <5J1qV1w163w@borla.UUCP> <6196@borabora.omni.com> <1991Jan18.215120.11966@zoo.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: palkovic@linac.fnal.gov (John A. Palkovic)
Organization: Bob's School of Quantum Mechanics
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In article <1991Jan18.215120.11966@zoo.toronto.edu>
	henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>C News expire comes with a couple of auxiliary programs -- upact is the
>more portable, updatemin is faster -- which do this.

I just ran updatemin on a 150 MB news spool. It took 63.7 seconds (!)
according to time(1). This is on a Sun 4/260. I'm not sure how long
upact took (11 min?) when I ran it but it loaded the machine down
something fierce.


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palkovic@linac.fnal.gov
Hmmm... Removed the trailing cruft.