[geeks] Large Mail files

[Lionel Peterson]

--- 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

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programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
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