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From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: mush and mmdf help wanted
Message-ID: <1990Jul19.065835.11243@robobar.co.uk>
Date: 19 Jul 90 06:58:35 GMT
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In article <1990Jul18.143855.11452@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> mer6g@virginia.acc.Virginia.EDU (Marc Rouleau) writes:

> I'm not familiar with the "._.mail" file?  What is it used for? 

It's a binary index file into the mail folder.  For those of us with
multi-megabyte folders and lousy PC disc subsystems, it's a godsend.
You're making me miss msg/mmdf :-(

I did ask about msg compatible binary index files for mush at one stage,
but the mush development team don't run mmdf, so one can hardly expect them
to provide it !  There has been some talk about binary index files for
mush, and it would be nice if they were the same as msg/mmdf's, but I don't
see how that's going to happen.  Maybe we need to wait for indexes to happen
first, then hack it to work with ._.mail.  I dunno.  Maybe we need a
volunteer who's familiar with mmdf (I'm not) to help -- perhaps the guy
who did the original mmdf support ?

> Regarding your second question, you should be ok if you just change
> the "/usr/mmdf/bin/submit" in config.h-dist to "/usr/mmdf/submit"

That sounds about right.  I think /usr/mmdf/submit ought to be the default
anyway, seeing as that's the mmdf installation default as well.
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