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From: rcj@moss.ATT.COM
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Help!  My history files are taking over!
Message-ID: <15057@clyde.ATT.COM>
Date: Fri, 9-Oct-87 14:01:21 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  9 14:01:21 1987
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Look at this!

-rw-r--r--   1 news     news     1514496 Oct  9 03:35 history
-rw-r--r--   1 news     news        4096 Oct  9 07:43 history.dir
-rw-r--r--   1 news     news     2092032 Oct  9 07:52 history.pag
-rw-r--r--   1 news     news      615424 Oct  9 01:35 nhistory
-rw-r--r--   1 news     news        4096 Oct  9 01:35 nhistory.dir
-rw-r--r--   1 news     news     1048576 Oct  9 01:35 nhistory.pag
-rw-r--r--   1 news     news     1347635 Oct  7 01:30 ohistory

What can I do to reduce this?  /usenet/lib disk usage is now
more than 15000 blocks.

*Any* help greatly appreciated,

The MAD Programmer -- 201-386-6409 (Cornet 232)
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