Subj : *.MSG vs. packed help?
To   : Mike Luther
From : Bob Jones
Date : Sun Jul 08 2001 07:50 am

ML> I've reached that point now where the system still
ML> works fine, but the maintenace operations for the
ML> utilties take too long in the *.MSG format for the system.

ML> What do I do now?
...
ML> But what is missing, if I go to, for example SQUISH and
ML> a SQUISH message base, is the fact that in the toss
ML> process, we don't get a new cap and a new stack of
ML> *.MSG's in a directory to clue the askSam thread task,
ML> to "Aha! traffic!  Munch in all from the old cap to the
ML> new one!"  That's how I wrote the interface code hard
ML> coded untility which is called now to do the task I
ML> wrote ass MSG2ASK.EXE all these years ago.

Ah.....  Do you code your own some times?

Suggestions:

(1) Pickup the MSGAPI documentation for squish and roll a new program for
MSG2ASK.EXE.

(2) Toss all areas of interest to a point, and have have the tool much the
point data.

(3) Use an existing tool to produce the ASCII text straight out of the squish
database....  I'm sure I've seen such, just don't remember where....

ML> Advice?

ML> Suggestions?

See above....

Good luck.....

Max when used with squish databases has a fairly good search engine.  I take it
you want more of a relational database you can manipulate....

Bob Jones, 1:343/41


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