Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pcrat!rick
From: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: /usr/spool/news on >1 fs?
Message-ID: <535@pcrat.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jul 88 16:01:09 GMT
References: <161@hawkmoon.MN.ORG> <4276@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> <586@obdient.UUCP>
Reply-To: rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson)
Organization: PC Research, Inc., Tinton Falls, NJ
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In article <586@obdient.UUCP> blair@obdient.UUCP (Doug Blair) writes:
>You were concerned with the amount of storage space used by news.
>Hang in there for a few more weeks until the beta tests are done
>on news 3.0.  You can store the news articles in a compressed

Maybe 3.0 already does this, but couldn't you decompress only
the first, say, 24 lines, and leave the rest of the article
stored compressed?  Then you could browse at full speed, while still
saving space.



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