Subject: pine's bark

From: Al Burfeind <[email-masked]> (by way of <[email-masked]> Peter Sobering)
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 94 17:28:44 EST

I've been innocently storing my read messages in 
"c:\pinemail\holding.mtx" since I started using PINE.  Although I knew 
the file was getting large, there were no signs of trouble until recently 
when PINE started telling me it couldn't parse the headers.

I split the file into two separate files (keeping them ASCII, of course), 
and still got the same messages.  When I began to search the files using 
WordPerfect, I found that apparently there were no messages added to the 
file after January 19, when a big batch of them went in.  

My memory is vague, but I believe I did go into this file using PINE and 
read some stuff that came in during February.  But I'm not sure.

Is there a known limit to the size of an .mtx file that pine can read?  I 
thought pine trees didn't shed their leaves...

Al B.

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 15:07:26 -0800 (PST)

Al,

There is no explicit limit on the size of a folder, but it is always possible
that you could run out of memory in PC-Pine.  How did you split the folder? 
You have to be *extremely* careful when editing an MTX format folder!  Pine
depends very much on the length of each message staying the same.  Some
editors will silently remove trailing whitespace from lines, convert tabs to
spaces, etc, which will break an MTX folder every time :(

Thanks for the report!

--DLM

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