ac>> Hi Paul.  The WIMM mail scanner program scans my entire message
 ac>> base for new personal mail in around 9 seconds.  Msgedsq takes
 ac>> around 20 seconds to scan my entire messagebase for new mail
 ac>> (when I hit the '*' key).  Why is this?

 > I don't know, but maybe it's got something to do with having 
 > to open more files or something, e.g. because it needs to 
 > populate the "lastread" field maybe it has to open the lastread
 > file which wimm doesn't.

All my message areas are stored in Squish format (there is no file named
'lastread'). 

 > 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.

I did, in a roundabout way.  It turns out that WIMM, timEd and GoldED don't
use the Squish MSGAPI to scan areas.  From what I've read in the
documentation, they appear to use some sort of 'alternate' method that is
faster than whatever MSGAPI is doing.  I don't know much about the
internals of MSGAPI.  Maybe your or David Begley (?) might want to look
into a faster method of scanning Squish bases and add it to MSGAPI38.

 > P.P.S. What's the difference between MSGED/SQ DOS + OS/2?

One runs in DOS, the other doesn't.





:-)

Identical scanning time.

andrew

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