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Re: Robust design for dosdis expire

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From: Peter Disdale
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 00:00
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In article <830253445.27186@thokk.demon.co.uk>
	   Malcolm@demon.net "Malcolm Muir" writes:

> Graham E Kinns (Graham@grempc.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>
> > Famous last words ... place the above on hold as well - Unlucky Alf
> > here has just managed to trash his history.snw as there's no checking
> > for disk full/write failure in expire.c expire_history(), is there?
> > (well, there is now ... ;)
>
> How much do you value your time. 1Gb of disk costs about 120pds in
> these parts :)

And yet Demon's disks still manage to fill up and cause newsfeeds
to be stalled....

But to be serious (back on-topic even) fitting a bigger disk
does not _solve_ the problem, rather _defers_ it.  And most
likely causes even more mess when the inevitable happens.

Anyway, those of us that make our living from mending errant
software would be out of a job were memory and disk resources
not finite :-)

More often than not "right" and "expedient" lead to different
solutions to a problem; please keep up the good work, Graham!
--
Pete
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From: Peter Disdale <Pete@pdlmail.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Robust design for dosdis expire
Date: 1996/04/23
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