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From: campbell@redsox.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Max # of newsgroups
Summary: remember the pdp11
Message-ID: <496@redsox.UUCP>
Date: 11 Nov 88 20:59:52 GMT
References: <14231@tektronix.TEK.COM> <27274@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: campbell@redsox.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
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In article <27274@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes:
}waynec@tektronix.TEK.COM (Wayne Clark) writes:
}   What are the factors limiting the number of newsgroups, and how
}   hard/easy would it be to increase the limit.  ...
}
}In src/defs.h:
}#define LINES   512     /* maximum no. of lines in .newsrc              */
}
}Ours was knocked up to 1024 a long, long time ago.  A trivial change,
}recompile and re-install.

I'd like to point out that 16-bit machines have a hard time when the number
of newsgroups gets near 400.  Your mileage may vary, of course.  Although
most of us are comfortably ensconced on 32-bit machines now, I just checked
and found 101 PDP-11s listed in the uucp map.
-- 
Larry Campbell                          The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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