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From: fair@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU (Erik E. Fair)
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Subject: Re: How long are you keeping news these days?
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Date: 10 Jan 88 16:54:01 GMT
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In the referenced article, david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- Resident E-mail Hack) writes:

	Now, along about last november I discovered this 20+ meg
	log file which NNTP had made and I'd forgotten it was there.
	Erik, your script will run on that large a log file but it
	takes fooorrreeeevvvveeerrrrr.. :-)

I'll bet the numbers were interesting, though...

	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu

P.S.	I write those scripts in awk because, for me, flexibility is
	more important than speed. If the reverse is true for you,
	please feel free to rewrite them in C...