In a message to Anthony about "tobruk bug", Paul said:

AM> Does Squish do this sorting, or is it something you do?

PM> I do this with a separate program and feed the resulting packet into Squish.
PM> Since I read my messages straight off the message base, I
PM> wanted them sorted into subject and date order. I made it
PM> sort by area because it didn't add much overhead and I
PM> thought it would speed up Squish. If you're using an OLR
PM> then you probably don't care what order the messages come
PM> in.

Well, if KWQ/2 gets a decent update any time soon, then I'll stick with
that.  But I came across a program called FleetStreet, a Squish & msg
format messagebase reader, and I don't mind it at all.  It's very
immature at the moment though, still in beta, and I don't like the long
term prospects of OS/2, so it may not be worth the effort.

PM> Have you tried running SQPACK against it. Packing the
PM> message base may help, and it can't hurt!

No, I don't think so.  It's either sqpack or sqfix that modifies the
last read pointers of Maximus though, which means I then have to go into
max and read the last message in each echo to reset them before adding
anything more to the messagebase.  A bit of a snafu.  In fact I
discovered just how delicate max's last read pointers are in this packet
- I'd been looking through my netmail area last night and went back to a
particular message so that I could resend it - about 15-20 message
back...  Low and behold, there are over 20 messages in my next qwk
packet! :(  Almost all old ones...  Stupid unintelligent software.

PM> In that case you're on your own. You could always collect
PM> the Squish echo and see if anyone has some more ideas. If

I'm a PC user, not a masochist. ;)

PM> you find anything, let me know. I'd like to see if I can
PM> break the 100 msgs/sec mark :-)



'tnt, Amfony.                                                              
              
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