On 12 May 05  05:06:00, BRUCE CLARK got back to MIKE ROSS 
-> Re: Max File size

 BC> This means that, even though you may have 8 megabytes of memory in
 BC> your computer, DOS programs will only 'see' the first 640K.
 
 MR> But it can swap out to expanded or extended when running a dos shell.

 BC> That's when it swaps out to run another program, like the 
 BC> text editor, but when BlueWave is _READING_ messages, it requires 
 BC> the _INDEX_ of those messages to be in RAM with it. 

 BC> That is why BlueWave/386 is so nice. 

I've got that available.  But, for other technical reasons on 
my side, I don't use it.  

 BC> When there are a large number of message areas and/or messages 
 BC> in an area, the index files just grows to whatever RAM size is 
 BC> available. 

But, that gave me an idea...  I may make use of BW/386 as my 
archive reader as need!   



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