Evening Indi,
>> At 01:02 PM 11/9/2008, you wrote:
They are, but the toc stands for "table of contents". You must be
sleepy today; I expect you knew that.
I may be sleepy, but I did wake up. Seems many of the list
members are in a trance, or have a sleeping sickness. Some one must
have switched their silver wire to some other material that
produced the sleeping sickness.
Abbreviations are often meaningless as I shall explain.
Just used to store message status in Eudora -- I knew that once, back in the
old MacOS days. Eudora was the best we had back then.
Many people think they know about Eudora when the do not. They
never mastered it, or tried only an old version.
Someone talked me into looking at Thunderbird. Maybe the version
I downloaded was old.
It looked much like a 5 year old version of Eudora. About 200
settings were missing.
I know you can add, 200 add on modules and get most of them.
I often have 50 configuration files for eudora. I can edit, and
control these, just like i can what the headers display and what they do not.
I can configure Eudora for ............
Any one of 4 or 5 dial ups
Network
DSL or proxy server,
With a single click of the mouse. Right, A SINGLE CLICK.
I have tied to crash Eudora for 15 years, and have not been able to do it.
Often have 200 mailboxes with 5, 10 and up to 25,000 messages in a
single mailbox.
Eudora is about as "Bullet Proof" as any software I have
found. None are 100 %
but some I have written have run 2.5 and 3.0 years, 24 / 7 and
never locked up and
never shut down.
>> Eudora was the best we had back then
What is the best you have now ?
Sounds like you might like to say something bad about Eudora, Be my
guest. <grin>
> The Eudora I use is a WinDoZZe program.
Yes, my answer was right there in your headers, starng me in the face.
If it was a snake, I'd have been bit, wouldn't I? :D
Maybe the TOC definition was also. ( for me ) Fairly logical for sure.
Why I called the TOC an Index file, that is Eudora calls it.
The time and date changes on the TOC file only when the mailbox index
is updated.
At rare times, Eudora displays a message, The index is corrupt or damaged,
do you want to rebuild the index ? At that time, the TOC will have a
new date and time.
Since you know about the TOC files, maybe you can explain the difference in
A table of Contents and an Index ! There may be one, but they
are similar.
Other kinds of Index files exist, some in X-base, Dbase, and Clipper.
One is a master index file in Dbase, and contains up to 47 index
keys, it is updated automatically every time a single record is changed.
The other is an NDX file and is never updated until the programer
tells it to be updated.
And of course the programmer must constantly know, when it needs updating.
Nothing to that.
So I guess we have to say,
An Index is an Index and a TOC is a TOC.
Then..........
An index is a TOC and a TOC is an Index.
Darn, ......... that sounds like Fuzzy Logic to me.
Don't ask me to write a Fuzzy Logic Set ( a set of rules )
that makes the decision of when to update Indexes.
Likely I could, but it would give you, me, and others a headache to
such a gosh awful mess.
Actually Fuzzy Logic is simpler than most think. It is so unusual
and far out, most peoples mind will not work like that.
Disagreement is more necessary than a lot of people realize, I think.
If we all agreed all the time we would only advance very slowly.
Heck, we do not disagree, we only think we do. <grin>
Wayne
Still trying to Crash Eudora, if you know how, please tell me.
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