Hi Paul



 RM>> And I *love* the RE: remover....



 PM> Glad you like it. It took about 5 seconds to implement as well,

 PM> although it took several hours to figure out that I needed to do it

 PM> :-)



Could be a few more prefixes to kill; I've seen ** and " in front

of subjects in AustGames.



 PM> BTW, at the moment it only removes the RE: for the purposes of

 PM> sorting, not on the final output packet.



Spotted that.



 

 RM> Makes sense. If you've got the mem to spare, use it. My technique

 RM> will necessarily involve reading the source packets twice. I intend

 RM> to recommend a Big disk cache .



 PM> Sounds like you're reinventing my original program. I was reading it

 PM> twice as well, but it really thrashed the disk.



Get a bigger cache... On the 2nd pass, did you have all the input

files open at once? I had real fun with this, and I might move this

thread to Avtech or AustC for more opinions - comment?



 PM>> The biggest culprit is the pktCollection class, as it declares a table

 PM>> of packets, each a few hundred bytes long.



 RM> Found it! (reminds me of an old Naked Vicar joke...)



 PM> I'm not sure what joke you're referring to, but if it's filthy and

 PM> disgusting lets hear it!



It isn't disgusting, so you probably don't want it.....



Cheers



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