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echo: alterreality
to: SNAKEBYTE
from: TURTLE
date: 1990-06-25 00:34:33
subject: SEARCH.....

From: TURTLE              
To: SNAKEBYTE           
Subject: SEARCH.....    
Date & Time: 06/25/90 00:34:33
Message Number  6046

A scan can't be terminated once it's started, an unfortunate misfeature
in this rather pathetic excuse for BBS software. It didn't really
hang on you; it just searched backward through ALL the messages in the
file (right now that's about 1,200 messages) using a text-search
algorithm written in FORTRAN 66 that's capable of searching maybe 10
messages a second. It can take a LONG time to scan all the messages...

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