Mel Pheasant wrote in a message to Trev Roydhouse:
 MP> on a fast ( :) ) AT I've never considered speed an issue. My
 MP> renum takes about 15-20 minutes in the wee hours of the
 MP> morning, so I've never had reason to complain. I do have to
 MP> defrag about once a year though, for it to work. 
I've never run a database message area, however, I've packed (renumbered?) 
and re-indexed databases and that always takes a long time.  What is there 
about a database message system that makes it so fast?  I know in a database 
you can "mark" records as deleted so they "look" like they are gone, but they 
aren't. Packing a database and renumbering a *.msg base are equivilant tasks 
and should take about the same time, particularly if the 300.msg problem of 
DOS FAT is non-existant.
The ONLY gripe I have about OPUS's *.msg system is deleting duplicate 
messages that aren't dupes, and Trev is fixing that.
                                              Jack 
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