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 In article <341e9291.2067342@news.demon.co.uk>
  guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk (Guy Harrison) wrote:-

>On Mon, 15 Sep 97 07:29:30 GMT, Simon@husbands.demon.co.uk (Simon
>Husbands) wrote:
>
>>I downloaded the active.zip file from the Demon ftp site and it does indeed list
>>all the NG's, but if you rename it 'NG' and put it in your /SPOOL/NEWS folder,
>>Oasis 1.35 ( for me anyway ) only seems to recognise the first 240 newsgroups.It
>>scrolls down them and stops after 240 groups, but I know the rest of them are
>>there in the file. Anyone know what we can do to get around this? It's
>>irritating not being able to browse and click to add a new news group. 
>
>Oasis has an upper limit on the size this file can be. Now, if memory
>serves, ACTIVE contains additional information over and above the
>group names. It's a standard text file so please check - it's been a
>while since I had to deal with it. iirc each line needs to be ...
>
>[groupname]<CR><LF>
>
>.. or possibly ...
>
>[groupname] [suggested filename to use]<CR><LF>
>
>.. whereas in fact ACTIVE has a lot more info than this on each line.
>The solution is to get rid of the extra info, either with a suitable
>filtering utility (grep etc might work) or by using an editor which
>can delete columns (I think protext can, "box mode" or something).
>
>Assuming I've got the format right, then you should end up with a file
>of roughly half a meg.

Simon got the same problem using an active file downloaded by NEWSwatch too
, I think. NEWSwatch automatically strips out all the crap and results in a
file of about half a meg. So it seems that even that is too big for Oasis to
cope with.
 
>Another worry I've long since harboured is that the number of
>newsgroups in existence now is reaching the point where Oasis 1.xx
>will not be able to process it because of this size limit. For that
>reason I disabled automatic updates of NG last year - no corruption
>since. Another solution would be to chop out those groups which you'll
>never need.

I think you could be right in this. Oasis was written some time ago, when
there weren't nearly as many newsgroups.
 
>If you are careful to follow the formatting, you can do without NG by
>editing active.dat and nntp.dat directly. NG is only used by Oasis
>when you subscribe to groups - the rest of the time it's just wasting
>space.

Yep. Or use NEWSwatch :)

Gary


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