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From: storm@texas.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: New .newsrc format [was Dynamic "smart" expiration?]
Message-ID: <434@texas.dk>
Date: 6 Jan 90 12:24:48 GMT
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moraes@cs.toronto.edu (Mark Moraes) writes:

>>It keeps a time-stamp and a seek offset in the active file in a
>>separate file.

>This was what the C News better.way patch, and the active.times file
>were meant to fix. They offered a slightly cleaner and unambiguous way
>of determining newsgroup creation -- the active.times file is always
>sorted in order of newsgroup creation at your site, simply because
>newgroup will always append to it.

Very nice, but it still leaves non-C News sites out in the dark.

And I still wonder how rrn manages to do this (if it does?).

>With the active.times file and all people that use it running a
>patched rn, you can hopefully do what you like with the active file
>then. 

Ok, but then somebody must document - maybe as part of newsrc(5) -
where the seek-offset & mod-time (or whatever) into active.times
is stored, and what the format is.

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Kim F. Storm        storm@texas.dk        Tel +45 429 174 00
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