Bob Juge wrote to Frank Cox:
BJ> Frank, it's more than just what you've stated.  When you get
BJ> 300-400 *.msg messages in a DOS file subdivision, access s l
BJ> o w s down to a crawl.   
     Once a week, defrag and Speed Disk.
BJ> Also, with today's larger hard drives, if you're using the
BJ> max DOS 2 Gig drive (without partitioning it into smaller
BJ> logical drives), each message (even if it's only 500 bytes
BJ> in size) will take up 32K of disk space because that's the
BJ> minimum DOS cluster size on a 2 Gig drive.
     Another good reason to PARTITION
BJ> The "database" approach used by Squish & Doug Boone's
BJ> variant has many advantages, the ability to manipulate the
BJ> messages in the database certainly isn't as trivial as with
BJ> the *.msg format, but since when is the easiest route the
BJ> best?
    Since forever.  They went to the *.MSG format when people had 20 to 40
    meg drives.
Regards,
--- timEd/B8
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