Re: Announcements and so forth

From: ---{Q[0]Qo. (gro.oi@mt)
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 03:51:52 -0500

Mon, 6 Jan 1997 17:14:44 +0100 (MET), Ray Vermey <rvermey@bazis.nl> wrote:
>Is this because when i run expire -r it Yarn reports that it deletes so
>many bytes but my news.dat stays the same length ???

That's correct. When expire says it is "deleting" what it really means is
it is freeing up space inside the news.dat file which will then be re-used
when you import more messages. This is fine-and-dandy, but sometimes you
want to (or are desperate to) reclaim the disk space right away...

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