Subj : Origin of extra lines?
To   : g00r00
From : Jay Harris
Date : Mon Sep 06 2021 07:52:20

Hi g00r00,

I'm not 100% sure, but I may have discovered the origin of the extra empty lines being displayed in some messages.

I posted a message yesterday to HobbyNet and I remember it looking fine when I posted it.  It even looked fine when I came back to the message a few hours later to press 'X' to download a copy of it.

When I came back to the message this morning, a mysterious extra blank line appeared.  The only thing that would have happened between that time would be
my nightly maintenance that runs, so I shut mis down and ran ./mutil maint.ini and sure enough, a second empty line was added to the message:

https://ibb.co/BzNkvfr

Each subsequent run of ./mutil maint.ini will then add another empty line to the message:

https://ibb.co/XX5pNLc
https://ibb.co/JdFY7gS

I believe it may be the PackMessageBases that's adding these lines as when I ran ./mutil -run PurgeMessageBases another line was not added.

I run ./mutil maint.ini each night after shutting mis down (./mis shutdown and then sleep for 15 seconds).  My maint.ini includes:

PurgeMessageBases  = true
PackMessageBases   = true
PackFileBases      = true
FileSort           = true
LinkMessages       = true
PurgeUserBase      = true
PackUserBase       = true


For now I've set PackMessageBases to false, just to prevent more lines from being added.

Let me know if you'd like me to zip up this JAM base & email it to you if you'd like to play around with it.


Jay

.... To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

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