Time: Mon Oct 28 18:59:34 1996
To: Wes Thomas <west@sonic.net>
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: Eudora problems
Cc: 
Bcc: dean

At 05:22 PM 10/28/96 -0800, you wrote:
>I forgot to mention: most problems with Eudora are caused by a corrupted toc
>file. here's what to do: exit Eudora, delete in.toc, open Eudora, open IN,
>and Eudora will create a new .toc file (you may lose your read/unread status
>data for messages, which you will also lose by splitting the file).

I like that explanation very much.

I have a different hypothesis:  
my inbox just got too big.

How does DOS address a sequential
file like in.mbx?  Is it a 
16-bit word, or a 32-bit word?

I come from a minicomputer environment
in which each pair of bytes was 
addressed with an unsigned 32-bit 
integer, i.e., a very large maximum
file size.  I suspect that Eudora uses
a 16-bit pointer instead.  This would
be easy enough to test.  Do you have
the Eudora tech support email address?
We should pose this question to them.

/s/ Paul Mitchell
      

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