Subj : Talisman msg base pack
To   : apam
From : vorlon
Date : Sun Oct 30 2022 11:16 am

Hi apam,

 >> After packing and pruning the message base, talisman displayed the
 >> messages as being from 1 to 200. I pruned from 18000 odd to 200.
 > 
 > That's right. Talisman will always show them as 1..X where X is the
 > number of messages in the base. It doesn't display the message number
 > (UMSGID in squish)
 > 
 > It does use the UMSGID for last read (or at least it's supposed to)
 
Ok. So just a display thing then. 

 >> Doing the same thing on a intel hpt install, the message numbers
 >> are not changed, but there is still x amount of messages in the
 >> message base.
 > 
 > Are you using HPT with talisman on intel? or some other message
 > viewer?

No, just comparing what the hub/boss node system does. There's no BBS
software involved, and just HPT/Golded on intel x64.



\/orlon
aka
Stephen


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