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From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz)
Subject: Re: tin 1.3 beta port for FreeBSD?
References: <4b6u5a$hpi@tzlink.j51.com> <DJv4x7.Mtw@ritz.mordor.com> <4b82cs$jjp@tzlink.j51.com>
Organization: Mordor International
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 05:24:24 GMT
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Louis Epstein (lepslog@j51.com) wrote:
: Chris Mauritz (ritz@ritz.mordor.com) wrote:
: : Louis Epstein (lepslog@j51.com) wrote:
: : : The current FreeBSD port for tin uses 1.22...does anyone have one for
: : : the 1.3 beta that is supposed to give improved performance?

: : I never could get 1.3beta to properly make use of news overview
: : files.  It always insisted on building index files in the user's
: : home directory, which wastes a LOT of disk space.  I ended up
: : switching back to 1.22.

: Hmmm...does Iain Lea know about this?

Beats me.  I posted about it a few times in news.software.readers
(or somesuch) and never got any response from Iain or anyone
else.  *shrug*

Chris
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