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From: woods@hao.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,news.software.b
Subject: Re: rn kill file status display efficiency
Message-ID: <1117@hao.ucar.edu>
Date: 27 Jan 88 23:53:05 GMT
References: <5365@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO
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In article <5365@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> bob@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
>How can I encourage rn to count how many articles have been killed so
>far, and if that matches the number of unread articles it saw when I
>started that newsgroup, I should go on to the next group without
>bothering to check all the rest of the kill file?

   My observation of how rn works is that the first line in the KILL file
takes a while to process, while all the subject lines of unread articles
are read in. However, checking each additional line is a relatively fast
process since all the article files do not have to be reopened to do this.
I think you are worrying about something that is a relatively minor slowdown.

--Greg