grephistory?

[Richard Michael Todd]

In message <NDBBKHFIKKIHKJOOJDPOEEBDCEAA.George.Lindholm at ubc.ca>you write:
>> Well, in my experience it isn't broken.  There are issues with the
>> .pag file not handling overflow gracefully, causing duplicates, but
>> that only happens when one is starting up news for the first time and
>> the history file hasn't reached a steady-state size, but once the
>> history file and .pag file have reached their steady-state sizes, this
>> doesn't happen.  Admittedly this is a problem, but it's hard to fix
>> without having some way of knowing what the target steady-state
>> history size will be, which is difficult since history size 
>> varies so widely
>> depending on local spool size and expiration policy. 

>Well, I just went from tagged hash to no tagged hash and suddenly
>things like grephistory and 'ihave' started to work. If that doesn't 
>count as being broken I don't know what does.

Well, as I said, tagged-hash works just fine *once the dbz file sizes have 
been set right*.  It's getting there that's the problem.