ac> Hi Paul.  The WIMM mail scanner program scans my entire message
ac> base for new personal mail in around 9 seconds.  Msgedsq takes
ac> around 20 seconds to scan my entire messagebase for new mail
ac> (when I hit the '*' key).  Why is this?

I don't know, but maybe it's got something to do with having 
to open more files or something, e.g. because it needs to 
populate the "lastread" field maybe it has to open the lastread
file which wimm doesn't.  I don't like the theory, and I don't
like the double amount of time.  Isn't it about time you 
performed some code investigation on msged?  :-)  BFN.  Paul.

P.S. It's a profiler you need.

P.P.S. What's the difference between MSGED/SQ DOS + OS/2?
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