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Msg#:29282 *>APPLE/APPLE*
12/29/93 13:48:02 (Read 1 Times)
From: TOM LARSON
  To: ALL
Subj: 2QWK 1.01B
0R: net33: @5925 [13:49 12/29/93] RE: 2qwk 1.01b1 BY: Jeff Brielmaier
 jb>What? You want to read the messages???? <g>

 jb>Thanks for the comments.  I initially wrote the code in MACOS
 jb>and just called the ml routine to determine how many messages
 jb>where there....  But it still too slow (7 minutes for 500
 jb>conferences, compared to 17 minutes for v0.98c's code), so I
I suppose I'm spoiled by a ramfast d and twgs. If it took me 17 minutes
to
process a control.dat file I would have written fastldr (rest in peace)
sooner.
 jb>spent about a week converting all of it to ML.  The text was
 jb>displayed only so that there was an indication on the screen so
 jb>that the user knew something was happening (I like the 'xxx ->
 jb>yyy' display at the front of the line so that I can tell how
 jb>many conferences are left to process.  [ xxx = curr
ences
 jb>to process] ) ......
Unfortunately that is the part I rem
thermometer sorta deal but didn't have time and wanted to get this out
before I
went out of town.
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