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On Sun, 25 Jun 2000 12:48:54 -0700, pan### [at] syix com wrote:
>[news.povray.org article searching]
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>The easiest way I can think of is to replicate what a newsadmin can
>do by grepping the news spool directly. It would have to run on povray,
>be very, very secure and most likely be a perl script. Does away with need
>index collection, etc.
A grep of my local copy of the entire news spool takes several minutes
even for the small groups. I don't like to think about grepping .general
and .binaries.images. Using the indexes, it takes no more than a second
or two. That's why I have the indexes.
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Ron Parker http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
My opinions. Mine. Not anyone else's.
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