Re: 3 questions/problems/suggestions about v. 0.91

Henrik Roseno (hero@login.dknet.dk)
Tue, 08 Oct 1996 00:00:57 +0200

yngvar.folling@login.eunet.no (Yngvar Folling) wrote:
>In article <BkOVy4Cx6IPI091yn@login.dknet.dk>,
>hero@login.dknet.dk (Henrik Roseno) wrote:
>> uqwk +m +n +x +L -Nuqwknewsrc
>
>I have with time come to suspect that uqwk -Nxxxx does not work
>correctly. Check if it is your uqwknewsrc file or your .newsrc file
>that is updated after you run the script, by checking which one has the
>most recent date stamp.

The uqwknewsrc got time-stamped when I ran the above script, but the
.news*-files in my home-directory hasn't been touched for a year.

>> zip -mk9 offline AREAS *.MSG
>
>Small trifle, and certainly nothing to do with your problems. I used
>the -9 option in zip for a while, until I realized that the extra time
>spent for the additional compression was *more* than I saved during
>download. Of course, if the computer you connect to is faster, or you
>have a slow modem, it might be different for you.

Thanks for the -9 advice!

-- 
Venlig hilsen
   Henrik


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