where are actually articles stored?

[Kjetil Torgrim Homme]

[qoni198 at puspa.cs.ui.ac.id]

>   I am just wondering where do the article get stored. I mean
>   stored, is the physical article.
>   
>   I use cnfs for storage, and I've checked the contents of the
>   buffers with strings command, 'strings buff00* | more', and they
>   don't represent all the articles that can be read from news
>   reader.
>   
>   For example, there's an article from A with content "bla bla", but
>   I cannot find the words "bla bla" in the buffers.

Try "strings - buff00*" instead, otherwise strigns will try to do
clever things to the file, as if it was a binary executable.  Also,
GNU grep will handle files with binary content (i.e. embedded NULs),
whereas for instance Solaris' grep will not.


Kjetil T.