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From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
Subject: Re: latest dbz vs. ndbm?
Message-ID: <17Nov89.21B7D13A9@b-tech.mi.org>
Reply-To: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
Organization: Branch Technology, Ann Arbor, MI
References: <1989Nov12.013643.1358@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> <779@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu> <WAYNE.89Nov14062831@dsndata.uucp> <1148@dali>
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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 89 14:05:10 GMT


>I tried installing dbz with -DINCORE set, on News 2.11.19, on a MicroVAX
>II, running Ultrix 3.0.
>
>It was easy to install, and my history files dropped to about 25% of
>normal size.
>
>I riffled through the code to expire, and inews to add the dbmclose() call
>that's needed, but I didn't get it to work.  Expire worked fine (REAL FAST),
>but inews didn't seem to be adding stuff to the history file.

That's ok.  You probably don't want to have INCORE defined on the copy 
you link with inews.  INCORE is a big win only when you are doing many 
dbm operations per program invocation (like expire).  









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