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From: jim@shograf.com (jim morris)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Cnews on SCO UNIX.
Message-ID: <1991Apr06.205324.13366@shograf.com>
Date: 6 Apr 91 20:53:24 GMT
References: <29856@cs.yale.edu>
Organization: SHOgraphics
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From article <29856@cs.yale.edu>, by fields-doug@cs.yale.edu (Doug Fields):
> About this "history.pag" file. Mine is beginning to get excessively large.
> It's around one meg right now. How do I get it smaller. What is it? Can I
> delete it?
> 
> Doug
I think there is a bug introduced by compiling the dbz package with -O
that causes the .pag file to look a lot bigger than it is. Mine appeared
to be 300Mb!!! but df showed that it wasn't really, cause I still had
disk space. Anyway deleting the history files, re-compiling dbz WITHOUT
-O, re-linking C-News, then rebuilding the history files fixed it.
Now it is a reasonable 256kb or thereabouts.

Of course this is using cc, I haven't tried rcc or gcc.

Jim

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