[arachne] Re: Arachne 1.87 crashes when reaching the end of the 'sent mail' list

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Hi Glenn!

> No problem Udo.

Thanks for not holding this against me.

> Does this look better ?
> http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ara-gpl/4000_snt.gif

Yes!

> No need to change which version of Arachne nor of insight you are using
> to get this new higher capability.

> Just grab this zip file and unzip the contained 'idxfast.htp'
> http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/ara-gpl/4000_snt.zip

> This will now give you the capability of a little more than 4000

Great! Super! It works like a charm. It's also very fast now.

You are definetely a wizard. :-)

Oops, I forgot that you already rank as Computer God - I guess that is
better than a wizard. ;-)

> Your suggestion of using DPMI is one of the best sugestions I have heard
> in a long, long time.

> Thank you !!!

Well, I would never have expected that a casual remark like that would
have provoked this reaction. I am glad that you found it helpful. :-)

> I will look into do just that.

> Until such time as I succeed in making a DPMI compile of core.exe
> this altered copy of idxfast.htp should 'help' the situation.

Should be a while before I hit the new limit. :-)

> Oh and by-the-way,

> There did not used to be a limit of any kind in indexes.

> Insight.exe would convert the entire dir listing into an HTML file
> regardless of the number of files residing there.

> The problem lies in the memory capabilties of core.exe to then display
> the HTML file.

I had suspected this, so I tried to save the mail listing to an HTML
file to verify this, but I got an empty file. Seems like the generated
HTML file is different from the normal ones.

> Rest assured that I _will_ continue to work on fixing this in an even
> better way.

Thank you.

Thanks also to the others for proposing alternative solutions; I will
come back to these when I hit 4000 sent mails. ;-)

Regards,

Udo

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