Hi All,

Does anyone know of a utility for Linux that packs JAM message bases
without renumbering them?

From JamNNTPd's ReadMe_hpt.txt:

* Do NOT pack your messagebase with "hpt pack". When hpt packs a
messagebase, it will also renumber it. This will cause the article
numbers in JamNNTPd to change which will confuse most newsreaders.

I have a personal message base with that posts weather/statistics/etc
that I read & regularly delete from & then pack the message base. If
using a newsreader to view the base I need to unsubscribe &
re-subscribe to see any new messages.

hptutil pack doesn't seem to work well at all, Golded often can't read
the base after using this utility. I have been using sqpack which does
work but also renumbers the base.


Jay

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On 1/22/2024 10:30 AM, Warpslide -> All wrote:

From JamNNTPd's ReadMe_hpt.txt:

* Do NOT pack your messagebase with "hpt pack". When hpt packs a
  messagebase, it will also renumber it. This will cause the article
  numbers in JamNNTPd to change which will confuse most newsreaders.

This is a misprint/typo. "hpt pack" is an option for netmail only, and doesn't do what the above says it does. I believe it should say "hptutil pack" instead.

I have a personal message base with that posts weather/statistics/etc
that I read & regularly delete from & then pack the message base.  If using a newsreader to view the base I need to unsubscribe &
re-subscribe to see any new messages.

I pack messages on my BBS because it can be handled there. Newsreaders is a different story, though.

hptutil pack doesn't seem to work well at all, Golded often can't read
the base after using this utility.  I have been using sqpack which does work but also renumbers the base.

I thought hptutil was recently updated to be able to do this, but I could definitely be wrong there. Are you using the latest version?

If there is nothing worth keeping, I don't bother packing. I just delete the JAM files of said echo and start over every so often when one or some message areas get too big.

rm ALLFIX_FILE.*

Then load up Golded and enter that area to re-create all the JAM files.

That's a common one used here. ;)

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