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
 DC> That'll kill a lot of Squish systems, as Squish cannot 
 DC> handle large packets (Squish/386 can happily handle 
I regularly toss 2M packets using Squish (not SQ386, never got around to 
setting it up).  Just gotta set the buffers high.
 DC> Question. Does PacketSort actually speed up the entire 
 DC> processing time (including it's own runtime) or does it 
 DC> slow down, or remain the same?
Hard to say.  Seems about the same on my system (an 8M 386-40 with 4 of those 
megs devoted to a disk cache).  It does reduce disk thrash a lot, as all the 
mail for a particular message area is getting tossed at the same time.
-Dave
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