Subj : Message quantity limits
To   : Mike Tripp
From : Bob Jones
Date : Wed Oct 23 2002 08:49 am

 BJ> Hmmmm.....  5400 sounds closer to the maximum number of messages that
 BJ> the dupe checker retains info on.  I thought I ran 
 BJ> up to about 10K for
 BJ> my max in some areas prior to switching to OS/2/.  Maybe not....

 MT> And you may be right about Maximus specifically.  I 
 MT> don't believe I've ever seen the BBS itself break, 
 MT> since other things like SQFIX and GoldEd/DOS broke for 
 MT> me sooner...in spite of the fact that all tossing was 
 MT> done with SQUISHP, which was the only guy interested in 
 MT> the dupechecking data file.

Ah....  (light goes on)...

I'm using SQ386P....  It has higher limits than SQUISHP....  So, you may be 
right for SQUISHP.  I know I switched over to SQ386P when I hit some limit 
there.....  And I have hit a problem after switching to SQ386P where SQFIX (or 
one of the other utilities in the Squish package) couldn't handle a particular 
message area's size....  I don't run GoldEd/DOS, so I don't know where that 
limit is.  I haven't had problems since I archived my old message areas to 
CD-ROM and re-started current areas....

Take care.....

Bob Jones, 1:343/41

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