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From: duane@anasaz.UUCP (Duane Morse)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Abyssmal disk usage in rnews et al - solution accepted (many thanks)
Message-ID: <67@anasaz.UUCP>
Date: 30 May 89 00:56:45 GMT
Organization: Anasazi Inc., Phoenix AZ
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Many thanks to the Usenet news administrators who emailed/posted suggestions
to improve disk usage with rnews and expire. Just about everyone suggested
using the dbz.c software, and hrc!dan sent me version 1.5 (1988). We've
converted the software and have been running fine for the last couple of days.

As an aside to other sites who may wish to make the conversion, if you're
using history.d/0-9, you'll need to cat them to produce one gigantic
history file before running expire with the -R option; the code under
the #ifdef DBM construct apparently expects a single all-encompassing
history file.

Again, thanks to your timely response.
-- 

Duane Morse	...{asuvax or mcdphx}!anasaz!duane
(602) 861-7609