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From: asgard@cpro.uucp (J.R. Stoner)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Dbz and news 2.11
Message-ID: <59@cpro.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 89 22:26:41 GMT
References: <373@twwells.uucp>
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From article <373@twwells.uucp>, (T. William Wells):
; In article <5095@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> (Jon Zeeff) writes:
; : As the author, I suppose I can supply an authorative answer.  Dbz
; : contains no AT&T code at all.  The only thing in it not written by me
; : is the hashing, and that is taken from pathalias (with permission).
; : Here it is if anyone missed it:
; : dbz.c  V1.5
[ Code elided ]
; Any reason I should switch from 1.3?

Before you respond maybe you can address a concern of mine that has to do
with dbz 1.3 and possibly dbz 1.5 to wit:

I had previously been using dbz 1.3 with 2.11.13 news to speed up the news
system (which it did) but started seeing problems with expire when the
history file grew past some as yet unidentified boundary.  It seems that the
files are properly removed at the expiration time but the reconstructed
history file seemed to increasingly have nulls in front of the first line.
Needless to say, before I increased my ulimit (a Microport SysV/AT 2.2) to
something reasonable the history file would then not stay within bounds and
get truncated.  I liked the speedup but did not like having to blow off the
history file and reconstruct it by hand periodically.

If this is a known problem that is addressed in 1.5 then I would want to
re-install dbz (also hoping it will work with C news or whatever is coming
down since B news is about to end).  If this is something I did wrong in my
localize.sh then maybe some sample of the right thing to do would be
appreciated.
-- 
"To prevent having to tell fools to RTFM don't let on you WTFM in the first
place." - J.R. (May the Source be With You) Stoner
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