Re: Two tin problems solved

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From: John Verhoeven
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 14:43

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In article dated Sun, 20 Aug 95 15:40:59 GMT, Heinz Wrobel (heinz@hwg.muc.de) wrote:
> 1. The current 1.3 beta is rather slow when it comes to scanning
>    news. You can speed this up a lot if you add this line to your
>    tin script before tin.exe is called:
>
>         Set TZ `getenv TZ`
>
>    Using TZ via the local environment is _much_ faster until the
>    actual scanning code is reworked.

Wow!  I just tried this and got almost a fourfold improvement!  From 33
seconds to about 9 seconds.

[ problem with real name deleted ]

Thanks Heinz.

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Date: Fri, 25 Aug 95 22:43:30 +0800
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