Subj : *.MSG vs. packed help?
To   : Mike Luther
From : Bob Jones
Date : Sun Jul 08 2001 07:50 am

 ML> I've reached that point now where the system still 
 ML> works fine, but the maintenace operations for the 
 ML> utilties take too long in the *.MSG format for the system.

 ML> What do I do now?
 ...
 ML> But what is missing, if I go to, for example SQUISH and 
 ML> a SQUISH message base, is the fact that in the toss 
 ML> process, we don't get a new cap and a new stack of 
 ML> *.MSG's in a directory to clue the askSam thread task, 
 ML> to "Aha! traffic!  Munch in all from the old cap to the 
 ML> new one!"  That's how I wrote the interface code hard 
 ML> coded untility which is called now to do the task I 
 ML> wrote ass MSG2ASK.EXE all these years ago.

Ah.....  Do you code your own some times?

Suggestions:

(1) Pickup the MSGAPI documentation for squish and roll a new program for 
MSG2ASK.EXE.

(2) Toss all areas of interest to a point, and have have the tool much the 
point data.

(3) Use an existing tool to produce the ASCII text straight out of the squish 
database....  I'm sure I've seen such, just don't remember where....

 ML> Advice?

 ML> Suggestions?

See above....

Good luck.....

Max when used with squish databases has a fairly good search engine.  I take it 
you want more of a relational database you can manipulate....

Bob Jones, 1:343/41


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