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From: erik@mpx2.UUCP (Erik Murrey)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Making /usr/lib/uucp/paths a _binary_ database
Keywords: pathalias UUCP smail
Message-ID: <318@mpx2.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jan 89 15:54:20 GMT
References: <486@fallst.UUCP>
Reply-To: erik@mpx2.UUCP (Erik Murrey)
Organization: MPX Data Systems, Inc. ,  Wayne, PA
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In article <486@fallst.UUCP> tkevans@fallst.UUCP (Tim Evans) writes:
>Please forgive me if this has been discussed before.  :-)
>
>The 'paths' database produced by 'pathalias' has grown to nearly
>900K bytes in size.  Granted that I'm not real well connected,

I think that a lot of people have forgotten about a neat little
program called "pathprune", posted a little while back.  It
essentially strips out the un-needed paths from your pathalias output.

For instance, pathalias might produce these two paths for one of my
neighbors:

.csee.lehigh.edu		lehi3b15!%s	500
lehi3b15.csee.lehigh.edu	lehi3b15!%s	500

These two paths are redundant, and pathprune would remove the second.
The resulting paths file, on my system, shrinks about 20-30%.

"pathprune" was posted to net.sources (now comp.unix.sources).  Here
is part of the header:

	From: matt@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Matt Costello)
	Newsgroups: net.sources
	Subject: Pathprune (to shorten pathalias files)
	Date: 7 Mar 87 01:49:31 GMT

Hope this helps...

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