05 Jun 18 12:32, you wrote to all:

 PK> Does any know if hpt is compatiable with squish message bases? I just
 PK> expereinced a major msgbase corrption wiping everything out:

I've been using HPT with Squish message bases for the past 15+ years.

There are some situations in Linux/BSD where a Squish base get corrupted
when two programs (eg. HPT and something else) write to the same
messagebase at the same time.

Squish is ordinarily very reliable.

 PK> x.sqd files were bloated & showing a fictous file size of 388G in some
 PK> cases
 PK> x.sqi files were all zero bytes fle size

This sounds more like filesystem corruption to me.

 PK> x.sql files were of insigifcant differences

.sql files aren't used by HPT afaik. Just the message reader software.

 PK> I recall a few years ago experiencing a similiar problem with hpt &
 PK> squish msg bases.

 PK> Any comments/insights?  Is jam message bases a better solution??

JAM is just different. I prefer Squish.

*.MSG is another option, though access gets slower as your messagebase gets
larger. Perhaps not noticably. Unlike the DOS days, lots of small files
aren't such a problem on modern OSes.

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