Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!vdsvax!barnett From: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (Bruce G Barnett) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Setting up LIBDIR/sys Message-ID: <2107@vdsvax.steinmetz.UUCP> Date: Thu, 30-Jul-87 08:28:16 EDT Article-I.D.: vdsvax.2107 Posted: Thu Jul 30 08:28:16 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Aug-87 09:29:26 EDT References: <2717@psuvax1.psu.edu> <21623@lll-tis.arpa> Reply-To: barnett@steinmetz.UUCP (Bruce G Barnett) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 32 Summary: expire -a/savenews If you would like to keep an archive of various files, may I suggest you use expire -a and savenews. savenews is in your 2.11 distribution. Look at ./misc/keepnews for Chuq's very nice program. The problem in archiving articles is managing large numbers of files in a directory. Ever do a `ls' in a directory that has mucho files? Chuq's program stores the files in a comp.sources.misc// format. This prevents any one directory from becoming too large. I made some modifications to store files in a comp.sources.misc/YY-MM/ format, which does two nice things: 1. The articles that come in separate parts are usually found in the same directory. 2. It is easier to archive to tape the older files, and recover them later. BTW - Chuq's program also saves a log of the subject line. If people want, I can send them the patches I have made. I also made some changes that handles some of the strange Message-ID's and provides better detection of compressed files, as I compress the files before I am forced to archive them off disk. The scheme works fairly well. Currently I have on line 41000 different articles. (The advantage of large disks!) Love them moderated source groups! -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@ge-crd.ARPA, barnett@steinmetz.UUCP, uunet!steinmetz!barnett