Re: How to reclaim space in news.dat?
R. R. Ronkin (rronkin@cpcug.org)
Wed, 01 Jan 1997 14:01:41 -0500
In article <199701011615.IAA06945@e2.empirenet.com>,
"Rodney D. Myers" <rdmyers@e2.empirenet.com> wrote:
>I'm using Soup 1.5/Yarn 0.92, for OS/2, and I found that running
>
>expire -r
>
>usually reclaims/shrinks the news.dat file.
My incoming news is set to expire in 7 days. I just ran expire -r. This
caused my news.dat file to shrink from 1,690 kB to 425 kB. I consider
this satisfactory behavior.
R. R. Ronkin
rronkin@cpcug.org