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

 MV>      Nope.  :-) By curiosity before writing this reply, I
 MV>      set my system's QWK message pointers for the year 2001
 MV>      in all areas and downloaded a monster package of 28MB
 MV>      as 100000 messages.  Some areas with more than 20000
 MV>      messages, and worked fine on BlueWave and Multimail.

 AA> I stand corrected.  QWK and BW's apparent unlimited capacity  
 AA> seems to be pretty good then.
     
     As I mentioned, it doesn't good with too big files. But works.

 AA> You could probably even just leave everything in those formats  
 AA> and just use something like winrar to S)earch within the files  
 AA> within the archives. I find winrar's ability to do that very  
 AA> handy at times.
     
     I hadn't thought of using Winrar.  I took a test but found only a
     few words, many fails.  But a tool to search text in compacted files
     is a good idea. 
     
     Multimail has a good search tool for text in multiples packets. The
     unique feature that I miss in Bluewave.

 MV>      It is not practical.  Any search takes too long.  But
 MV>      it shows that the QWK/BW system has the ability to
 MV>      handle with bigger data.

 AA> Sempoint, for example, would provide a nicer presentation for  
 AA> that whole lookup proceedure.  When you find the message you  
 AA> need, you are ready to steal the tagline, compose a reply, save/ 
 AA> print the message, copy it to another area, etc.

     I'll test Sempoint in laptop.



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