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Article #1082Re: Robust design for dosdis expire
From: Anthony R. Gold
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 00:00
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In article <830175140snz.4198@grempc.demon.co.uk>
Graham@grempc.demon.co.uk "Graham E Kinns" writes:
> Also added a check if the first article in the article file isn't
> going to be expired then skip the expire of that group since none of
> the other articles will be expired (assumes they're stored in
> increasing time order).
Nice one. My slowest ng's are the big ones set to -1. BTW, after expire
has found a posting to keep, it still tests all the following articles,
but I don't know whether that needless testing takes a significant time
relative to the required disk reading and writing.
Regards,
--
Tony - G3SKR / AA2PM email: tgold@panix.com
tgold@microvst.demon.co.uk
packet: g3skr@n0ary.#nocal.ca.usa.na
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