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echo: aust_amiga
to: Peter Deane
from: Andy McArdle
date: 1996-09-29 06:56:52
subject: Re: Social Life?

G'day Peter

 PD> It's done by the new beta TrapList.  It makes an index of the nodelist
 PD> when it's being parsed.  And thus takes a lot longer to do a Traplist
 PD> run.  You also need a lot more HD space for the index file:

 PD> Fidonet.users            1778976 ----rwed Saturday  10:12:29

  Just as a matter of interest, is it possible to switch this feature OFF
or is it inherent in the code?

  My nodelists already take 5MB of disk space (including fidonet.index) and
I can't see any particular advantage in using more...

 PD> Still, very fast finding Sysop names (or partial sysop names).

  ...especially for something so "frivolous."  Grep may not be fast, (it 
took 30 sec to find "Deane" ) but at least it's only 12K...  ;]

  Shall I shut up now?       __                            __o c:'=___
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