Anthony Tibbs wrote in a message to Douglas Anderson:
DA> What the heck is a packet sorter and why do I need one?
 AT> PacketSort(er) is a program which takes all of your incoming .PKT
 AT> files, and merges them into one large packet.  It also groups the
 AT> message(s) for each area together.  When Squish reads this large
 AT> packet, it doesn't have to jump around from area to area, which
 AT> speeds up processing considerably.   
That'll kill a lot of Squish systems, as Squish cannot handle large packets 
(Squish/386 can happily handle them). 
 AT> In my case, without PacketSort, I get about 8msgs/sec.  With
 AT> PacketSort, I am now getting between 25 and 45 msgs/sec (sometimes
 AT> even more).  Ofcourse, the 4meg disk cache helps a lot too.
Question. Does PacketSort actually speed up the entire processing time 
(including it's own runtime) or does it slow down, or remain the same?
I'd have my doubts as to wether or not it made any real differences 
speed-wise, but it does appear to have several other usefull features (like 
splitting large packets and sorting messages by date)
Dave
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