[Sep 09, 97 - 17:20] Mike Christian of 1:396/17.4 wrote to Jerry Schwartz:

JS>> There is a bug in some older compiler libraries (or perhaps even in 
JS>> DOS, I was never sure) that caused a particular directory operation 
JS>> to fail after 1023 files were processed. 
MC> Ah, this explains something that happened to me a few months back - maybe. 
MC> I can't recall details now, but it seems like after some areas got over 1K 
MC> something weird happened, like no more messages got tossed or would not 
MC> renumber or something. I "fixed" it by erasing all
messages in an area. The 
MC> problem never came back.

Perhaps.  It was a bit of a poser at first, but the clue was that QM
(George Peace's tosser) would fail to notice messages in the netmail area,
which it scanned directory-wise, but didn't care how big an echomail area
was because it used the message number in that case.

Jerry Schwartz
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