Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: faster B-news expire?
Message-ID: <1991May2.040520.14012@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 2 May 1991 04:05:20 GMT
References: <24869@as0c.sei.cmu.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <24869@as0c.sei.cmu.edu> tgp@sei.cmu.edu (Tod Pike) writes:
>...faster expires?  I know that C-news is supposed to expire much faster, but
>I can't upgrade yet.  Thanks.

The C News expire should work with B News -- it was designed to, although
this hasn't been checked lately -- with the proviso that if you want it to
respect explicit expiry dates, you need a small B News patch (posted long
ago) to generate exactly the format of history file that C News uses.
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry