-=> Quoting August Abolins to Mauro Veiga <=-

 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.

 AA> Ya.. but the 5000 "limit" is a whole lot more than any one QWK  
 AA> could ever carry, and you wouldn't need to unpack as many files  
 AA> to do your searches.
     
     Nope.  :-)
     By curiosity before writing this reply, I set my system's QWK
     message pointers for the year 2001 in all areas and downloaded a
     monster package of 28MB as 100000 messages.  Some areas with more
     than 20000 messages, and worked fine on BlueWave and Multimail.
     
     It is not practical.  Any search takes too long.  But it shows that
     the QWK/BW system has the ability to handle with bigger data.

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

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

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

     I'll test.



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