[Sep 07, 97 - 12:14] Mike Christian of 1:396/17.4 wrote to William Scott
Lockwood III:

WSLI>> I just use netmgr for that.  It's really easy to do that way.

MC> I am using NetManager with Msged 4.1 DOS 16 bit version, and for some 
MC> reason it doesn't seem to "see" all the messages. I get
about 4 mailing 
MC> lists from the internet that are all tossed into my NETMAIL area. I use 
MC> NetManager to toss the mailing list mail to different 1.msg format areas 
MC> (defined as LOCAL areas in my areas definitions in SQUISH.CFG, which is the 
MC> area definitions file I point to in MSGED.CFG). For some reason some 
MC> messages are tossed into the local areas, and some remain in the Netmail 
MC> area. (all of the list mail does ths from time to time. I am using the 
MC> KLUDGE lines to determine the local area.

MC> Any suggestions? The NetManager folks said it can't be their program, so I 
MC> was wondering if somehow Msged or SQUISH could be causing this.

There is a bug in some older compiler libraries (or perhaps even in DOS, I
was never sure) that caused a particular directory operation to fail after
1023 files were processed.  QM (from George Peace) has this problem, for
example.  I think the particular call was FindNext, but don't hold me to
it.

The symptom I had was that QM would only scan the first 1023 messages in my
netmail area.  This was based upon the order in which they appeared in the
directory structure, NOT on the collating sequence of the file names. 
Since directory entries get re-used, you could never be sure exactly which
files would be skipped.  I tumbled to the problem when I watched closely
after renumbering my netmail area.

Jerry Schwartz
@EOT:

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