> I don't like the theory, and I don't like the double amount of time.  
> Isn't it about time you performed some code investigation on msged?  
> :-)  BFN.  Paul.

ac> I did, in a roundabout way.  It turns out that WIMM, timEd and GoldED don't 
ac> use the Squish MSGAPI to scan areas.  From what I've read in the 

Oh yeah, I remember some comments like that in the Golded doco.

ac> documentation, they appear to use some sort of 'alternate' method that is 
ac> faster than whatever MSGAPI is doing.  I don't know much about the 
ac> internals of MSGAPI.  Maybe your or David Begley (?) might want to look 
ac> into a faster method of scanning Squish bases and add it to MSGAPI38.

The less I look at it the better.  I can assure you David has
no interest in it at all (or rather no time, last time I tried to 
get him to make it work with EMX 0.9a instead of EMX 0.8).  A
rewrite of MSGAPI is on the cards, but as yet not even started.
Fairly low priority too.  I wish there were more people doing
work on this.  BFN.  Paul.
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