• Origin of extra lines?

    From Jay Harris@1:229/664 to g00r00 on Mon Sep 6 07:52:20 2021
    Hi g00r00,

    I'm not 100% sure, but I may have discovered the origin of the extra empty lines being displayed in some messages.

    I posted a message yesterday to HobbyNet and I remember it looking fine when I posted it. It even looked fine when I came back to the message a few hours later to press 'X' to download a copy of it.

    When I came back to the message this morning, a mysterious extra blank line appeared. The only thing that would have happened between that time would be
    my nightly maintenance that runs, so I shut mis down and ran ./mutil maint.ini and sure enough, a second empty line was added to the message:

    https://ibb.co/BzNkvfr

    Each subsequent run of ./mutil maint.ini will then add another empty line to the message:

    https://ibb.co/XX5pNLc
    https://ibb.co/JdFY7gS

    I believe it may be the PackMessageBases that's adding these lines as when I ran ./mutil -run PurgeMessageBases another line was not added.

    I run ./mutil maint.ini each night after shutting mis down (./mis shutdown and then sleep for 15 seconds). My maint.ini includes:

    PurgeMessageBases = true
    PackMessageBases = true
    PackFileBases = true
    FileSort = true
    LinkMessages = true
    PurgeUserBase = true
    PackUserBase = true


    For now I've set PackMessageBases to false, just to prevent more lines from being added.

    Let me know if you'd like me to zip up this JAM base & email it to you if you'd like to play around with it.


    Jay

    ... To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

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  • From g00r00@1:129/215 to Jay Harris on Tue Sep 7 06:36:18 2021
    I'm not 100% sure, but I may have discovered the origin of the extra
    empty lines being displayed in some messages.

    Thanks I will look into it!

    ... It said "insert disk #3", but only two will fit...

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