Hi Mike,

 MB> Well, that helps quite a bit.  I only have about 3300 
 MB> messages, it is just the message numbers that are 
 MB> getting up there.

The fact you are running under DOS/Win311 probably means that the memory
index is likely to be your limit. Just the other day I was thinking I
handn't seen or heard about a running Win311 system for several years now.
You never know what pops up out of the woodwork....;-) You would probaly
gain quite a bit in a few areas by using a .SQD message base, it will not
only perform better, but consume less disk space and also help with the
directory entry issue.

 PK> If I recall correctly, the Squish API holds the message base index
 PK> in memory, so its probably more of a memory limitiation than
 PK> anything else. I have heard of people with 50,000+ message stored
 PK> in one Squish area, but I have not done that myself...

 MB> Well, that helps quite a bit.  I only have about 3300 
 MB> messages, it is just the message numbers that are 
 MB> getting up there.

Well 50,000 messages under a decent OS is quite likely, however I wouldn't
like to guess how Win 311 would handle that, the code is likely to run into
some of the 16bit DOS limitations I guess. How much disk space does that
message base take up as FAT?

 MB> This PC has been running virtually non-stop for 24/7 with Binkley and a 
 MB> couple different message readers since November 1992 
   ... text deleted ...
 MB> months.  I usually shut down over Christmas holidays 
 MB> and clean out the dust and cat hair.

Well that certainly qualifies as perseverence in my books. Well done....;-)

 MB> I like reliability.  :-)

Yup, when it comes to online communications, reliabilty is a pretty important factor.

Cheers............pk.

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