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From: ken@hertz.njit.edu (ken ng cccc)
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Subject: Re: Cnews on SCO Unix
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.214347.23452@njitgw.njit.edu>
Date: 16 Apr 91 21:43:47 GMT
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In article <1991Apr06.205324.13366@shograf.com> jim@shograf.com (jim morris) writes:
: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.

I ran into a very similar bug running SCO Xenix.  It was interesting seeing
a 400 meg file on a 200 meg disk :-).  If your in doubt do a 'make r' in the
dbz directory.  If it takes more than 12 hours to get done and you have a
reasonable box, then you have to take the '-O' off the makefile line.  I
ran this on a 25 Mhz 386 and it got done in under an hour (I forgot how
much under).   Another couple of hints that something was wrong was that
it took forever to add articles, and the expire would not run correctly.