Mike Bourne wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 MB> 5-digit, into the 20,000 range, work fine.  I am trying to find out
 MB> if it will work when the message number is over 32,768.  :-)

I don't know the answer to that one offhand.

 RJT> FWIW,  I run all Squish bases here,  I don't know if that'd be any
 RJT> different for *.msg.

 MB> I could not find a "renumber" parameter for *.msg bases in Squish,
 MB> just for the Squish bases.

I don't think there is one.  I remember way back when I was just running a
point,  I had to use some external utility to do that.  If you want I can
see if it's around on the system somewhere,  as I don't tend to get rid of
older stuff...

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