Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Is there a way to control the time when news is unpacked? Message-ID: <1990Feb20.164346.6246@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <239@cmic.UUCP> <1309@ispi.UUCP> <3273@caesar.cs.montana.edu> <1990Feb19.175403.8006@utzoo.uucp> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 90 16:43:46 GMT In article zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes: >>... standard with C News. If you want to pay the extra costs of doing >>an unpacking immediately (it does cost a little extra, it turns out), >>you have to work at it. > >I agree, if you use the standard C News method... Jon, it costs a little extra no matter how you do it; amortizing startup and shutdown overhead over multiple batches is a win even when those overheads are small. Of course, it may not be enough of a win to be worth bothering with. -- "The N in NFS stands for Not, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology or Need, or perhaps Nightmare"| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu