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- From: wnear@epix.net (Bill Near)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Tin
- Date: 13 Feb 1996 18:30:07 GMT
- Organization: epix.net
- Distribution: world
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- References: <4e7hhr$mfl@mars.cyberspc.mb.ca> <19960126.44A358.919@am163.du.pipex.com> <4epbrg$8mg@guava.epix.net> <4fcoed$sat@news.bconnex.net> <4fo8u8$noe@bastion.erls02.siemens.de>
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- On 12 Feb 1996 20:46:00 GMT, Reinhard Luebke articulated:
- <> Steve & Kelley Jones (sdjones@bconnex.net) wrote:
- <> > William Near (wnear@epix.net) wrote:
- <> > : I just timed the two ways that I use to run Tin.
- <> > :
- <> > : rtin -n (this one takes 4 minutes to load in)
- <> > : rtin (this one takes 7 minutes to load in)
- <> >
- <> > I use 'tin.exe -nr' and it only takes about 30 seconds.
- <>
- <> There is another item to help speed up startup !
- <>
- <> Take a look at the following exerpt from my tinrc file:
- <> ...
- <> # if ON show group description text after newsgroup name at
- <> # group selection level
- <> show_description=OFF
- <> ...
- <>
- <> If you set this option to ON, then tin has to read in the newsgroups file
- <> from the news server in order to get the news description. And this may
- <> take a while...
-
- I'll give this a try. I don't understand why my TIN is slow
- as hell to read in the 12 newsgroups that I subscribe to. My
- .newsrc only contains those 12 groups and I use the -n option
- when launching rtin.
-
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