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From: schaefer@ogicse.ogi.edu (Barton E. Schaefer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: Index files for large mailboxes
Message-ID: <8078@ogicse.ogi.edu>
Date: 17 Mar 90 04:55:24 GMT
References: <1792@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk>
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR
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In article <1792@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk> numb@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Matthew Newman) writes:
} Has/Is anyone developed(ing) index files for mush. I have looked at the 
} load_folder code and it would be quite easy to implement indexes. If noone is
} doing this then I shall write the code myself.

Index files are in the plans for the future.  If we add them, we will do
it right:  mush will be able to detect when the folder or the index has
been "corrupted" and revert to an "ordinary" load in that case.  This is
non-trivial to add to the present load_folder(), which is why it hasn't
yet been done.
-- 
Bart Schaefer          "EARTH: Surrender IMMEDIATELY or we PICKLE DAN QUAYLE"

                                                                    "THPPFT!"
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