Subject: Re: loading messages into memory

From: Andrew Sweger <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 13:50:56 -0700 (PDT)

On 30 Jun 1998, Robin S. Socha wrote:

> * Dave Hirsch <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Dear Pine-info, I have several folders with +1000 messages in them.
> > When I open the folder, it takes several minutes and about 60megs of
> > memory to load. Is there anyway for pine to ONLY load the index screen
> > (message header info) into memory? Once the message is selected for
> > opening, only that message would be read into memory.
> 
> Not that I know of.

I'm not sure (because it's been a while), but I think using *.mtx
mailbox format (Tenex format?) would permit this (for local files).

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From: Raja BrewHaHa <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 18:18:01 -0600 (MDT)

On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Dave Hirsch wrote:

> 
> Dear Pine-info,
> 
> I have several folders with +1000 messages in them.
> PS Partitioning the folders into several smaller folders is not a feasible
>    option for the nature of my system.

There is a way to make messages into a more efficient file system.
You can begin the message file with offsets into the file for the
beginning of each message for instance.