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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!DIALix!metapro!bernie
From: bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] Problems installing cnews/nn
Message-ID: <1992Dec1.034833.21867@metapro.DIALix.oz.au>
Organization: MetaPro Systems, Perth, Western Australia
References: <1992Nov27.153032.10611@uropax.contrib.de> <1fav2bINN2ie@tricky.wft.stack.urc.tue.nl> <ByI76y.75o@world.std.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 92 03:48:33 GMT
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In <ByI76y.75o@world.std.com> geoff@world.std.com (Geoff Collyer) writes:

>Jim Rump:
>>I would try INN. INN can do what cnews can and more.

>That's an interesting claim.  What do believe INN can do that C News
>can't?

>>It also is a lot smaller.

>How are you measuring size?  Certainly not the sizes of the processes
>involved.

Here, here. One system I use has changed over to INN and
it's constantly paging or swapping. Almost like somebody's
running EMACS :-(
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