Hello Mauro!

** On Monday 08.03.21 - 11:41, you wrote to me:

 AA>> could just as easily rename or archive the .SQL, SQD, .SQI
 AA>> files as a group on a regular basis - and that wouldn't
 AA>> need to be every 30 days, but maybe every 180 days.

 MV>      As soon as I have time I'll test it.  But the limit of
 MV>      5000 messages per area is boring.  It forces me to the
 MV>      same work that I already have with QWK to create
 MV>      several files, only bigger.  I'll try.

Ya.. but the 5000 "limit" is a whole lot more than any one QWK  
could ever carry, and you wouldn't need to unpack as many files  
to do your searches.

You could store the AREANAME.SQL/SQD/SQI triplets as AREANAME- 
yyyy.zip or something, and with a little batch program unpack  
them as required.  Sempoint has a fine built-in Search feature.

Sempoint allows changing the font, build an address book, steal  
tearlines... and many other OLR features.

Since Sempoint supports BW and QWK, it could be a pretty good  
solution to consolidate and preserve all your message bases with  
one management program.


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