[geeks] Large Mail files

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at yahoo.com
Sun Oct 13 21:20:28 CDT 2002


--- Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 03:01:33PM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > I have a 130some meg mail file.  When I try to open it in mutt on a
> > machine with 64megs of ram, mutt works for awhile, gets to
> something
> > like 30 some thousand messages then dies. 
> > Pine on the other hand, just seems to go off to never never land
> 
> "man split"

Don't forget "man head", "man tail" or "man rm" ;^)

Seriously, maybe it is time for a devistating system crash, taking the
130 meg of emails with it... ;^)

Lionel


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Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976



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