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

 MT> Hello Roy!

 MT> 28 Jul 04 20:07, Roy J. Tellason wrote to all\:

 RT> The .sqd file in question was a bit over 8M in size.  Is this a
 RT> problem for Squish running under dos?

 MT> Nope...I have many that are larger without issue.  SQFIX and GOLDED
 MT> DOS versions start misbehaving when areas hit 5400 msgs or so here,
 MT> though, so I cap mine at 5000.  If they go over and break, then
 MT> SQFIX32 might work...but not always.  Even with 5K caps, here's my
 MT> top 5:

 MT> ALLFIX_F SQD    28,155,429  07-29-04  3:44a
 MT> WEATHER  SQD    27,625,285  07-29-04  3:43a
 MT> U-F1O4Q  SQD    20,507,829  07-29-04  4:09a
 MT> U-RV6BX  SQD    15,777,708  07-29-04  4:09a
 MT> U-RVG8O  SQD    15,584,469  07-29-04  3:39a

 MT> If you don't already have SQPACK in a regular maintenance routine
 MT> (daily here), it is probably a good idea to run it both before and
 MT> after your manual cleanup activity, to insure the integrity of the
 MT> area.  There were probably some pointers that were confused before
 MT> you started (in the .sqi), which got really confused by the time
 MT> you were done.

I do have it running daily,  but it doesn't do anything in those cases
where I haven't set the message area to any particular limits,  like the
one in question:

-        672 - Old=1131352; New=1131352

This is after I'd trimmed out a bunch of stuff...

5400 messages?  There were something over 8000 of them in there,  I forget
how many now.  And yes,  this is the dos version.

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