Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hoptoad!gnu From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Why are news articles separate files? Message-ID: <5239@hoptoad.uucp> Date: 6 Sep 88 20:43:01 GMT References: <471@icus.uucp> <1988Aug26.160040.22326@utzoo.uucp> Organization: Grasshopper Group in San Francisco Lines: 10 In article <471@icus.UUCP> lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes: > why are each and every news article keep in separate files within separate > directories? > Wouldn't a database solution be more apropos? The Unix file system *is* a database, and one of the better designed ones. -- John Gilmore {sun,pacbell,uunet,pyramid,amdahl}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@toad.com "And if there's danger don't you try to overlook it, Because you knew the job was dangerous when you took it"