Aduke.926 net.news utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!mhtsa!harpo!chico!duke!trt Thu Aug 6 21:45:22 1981 news program speedup Duke obtained a big speedup in news by changing input.c: /uux/s//& -r/ The "-r" flag, documented only in section 36 of volume 2A of the UPM, suppresses polling of the target system. I highly recommend "-r" if your uux supports it and if you broadcast news to several systems (we send to 11 others). ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.