Large binary newreader help please!

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On Mon, 03 May 2004 05:07:25 GMT, Ohmster
<bigbigkitty@invalid.anywhere.com> appears to have said:

> ...installed so it might be time to pull up the sleeves, rpm -e slrn away,
> download slrn-0.9.7.4.tar.gz (If I can find it.), apply the patch, and
> compile.

I like it. Rarely use anything else. But then, I'm a loyal slrn fan.

Just one thing... 0.9.7.4 you say? 0.9.8.0 has been out for
a while now:

<http://slrn.sourceforge.net/>

If you do get it, and use the jwk patch, be sure to read README.multipart.
There's a macro in there that you'll need for proper threading.

> BNR2 did not choke on the 2.5M headers. It launched 8 connections, 7 of them
> died idle during the header pull and this took a long time, over 2 hours.
> Once the headers came down and I refreshed the window, everything was right
> there. As Emeril would say, "Bam!".

If you're going to get such a high volume of headers on a regular
basis, you may be better off with BNR2, if it's as quick as all that.
Last time I tried to get over 100,000 headers from a bin group in slrn,
it took so long to thread them, that... well, that's when I went and
found nget. Then again, I'm running an oldie... 400MHz K6-2. YMMV.

> Thanks for the very helpful advice, Johnathan.

No problem... have fun!

Jonathan

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