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From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- a slipped disk)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: compressed folders revisited
Message-ID: <14363@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 90 23:20:52 GMT
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Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- a slipped disk)
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The `msg' being referred to is the one in the MMDF distribution.  The ._
file is otherwise known as the "binary box".  It keeps track of the location
of each message within the mailbox, and the status (read/unread/deleted/etc).

The major flaw with it is that the disk addresses aren't in network byte
order..  (soon to be fixed..)

BTW, the name change from msg -> elm was at my insistence...  But that was
years and years ago.

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