Hi Andrew,

 ac> 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:

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

 ac> There are some situations in Linux/BSD where a Squish base get 
 ac> corrupted when two programs (eg. HPT and something else) write to the 
 ac> same messagebase at the same time.
That could be the case. Where I was in msged while hpt was tossing new mail. 

 ac> Squish is ordinarily very reliable.

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

 ac> This sounds more like filesystem corruption to me.
Teaches me to setup some off-site DR measures...

 PK>> x.sql files were of insigifcant differences
 ac> .sql files aren't used by HPT afaik. Just the message reader 
 ac> software.

 ac> JAM is just different. I prefer Squish.
Ok, so nothing to be overly concerned about. I just always used Squish
since the ProBoard & FastEcho days. Except for the period where i was
running PowerBBS.

 ac> *.MSG is another option, though access gets slower as your 
 ac> messagebase gets larger. Perhaps not noticably. Unlike the DOS days, 
 ac> lots of small files aren't such a problem on modern OSes.
I am using *.msg for the netmail area in case I need to extract a complete
message. It comes in handy at times & a few other reasons...

Thanks!
Phil

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