Subj : [SemPoint] Breakthrough
To   : August Abolins
From : Martin Foster
Date : Wed Jun 05 2019 12:57:00

Hello August!

## 04.06.19 at 18:14, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

 MF>> I've finally figured out what was causing the "missing" first line of
 MF>> every message and the garbage under the origin line issues. It would
 MF>> appear that SemPoint expects 8.3 messagebase filenames and more
 MF>> importantly, the "8" part of the filename MUST be in UPPERCASE, although
 MF>> it doesn't seem to matter what case the file extension is.

 MF>> 04/06/2019  12:57           681,746 POINTS.jdt
 MF>> 04/06/2019  12:57             5,984 POINTS.jdx
 MF>> 04/06/2019  13:04           361,612 POINTS.jhr
 MF>> 04/06/2019  13:26                16 POINTS.jlr
 MF>> ---------- 8< ----------


 AA> Very good work!

Thanks :)

 AA> But remember, I was having THIS problem:

Yes.

 AA>> 05/25/2019  07:19 PM           162,203 FIDOTEST.JDT
 AA>> 05/26/2019  05:07 PM             1,520 FIDOTEST.JDX
 AA>> 05/26/2019  05:13 PM     4,294,967,371 FIDOTEST.JHR
 AA>> 05/26/2019  05:13 PM                32 FIDOTEST.JLR

 AA> Reading existing messages and writing a new message went well.  But as
 AA> soon as I went back the C)hange an message that I had previously posted
 AA> (but not yet tossed or sent), the above happend.

Earlier this morning, I did a very simple test which was to delete one  
single message. Doesn't get much simpler, does it?

SemPoint immediately locked up and after watching the twirly-whirly  
wheel spinning round and round for something like 20 seconds, I got  
control back. The message list was still there but when I hit <Enter>  
on one of the messages, the message was blank, as were all the others.  
I then looked at my messagebase directory and there it was in all its  
glory, the infamous 4Gb file - Pah!!

From my tests so far, I conclude that the only viable message base  
format is *.MSG - Hmph!

Regards,
Martin

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