Re: ANNOUNCE: PC Yarn v0.91 - SOUP offline reader for MS-DOS and OS/2

Sergio Boink Boink Blink (who.am.i@io.org)
Thu, 20 Jun 1996 13:14:51 -0400

Wed, 19 Jun 1996 21:32:21 -0500, rsteiner@skypoint.com (Richard Steiner) wrote:
>>Are you sure all you are doing is looking at the index?
>
>I may be viewing a message or two. Why should it matter? Methinx there
>is tremendous inefficiency living in the Yarn folder code...

It matters because if you read messages yarn marks them as read. THen when
you exit it has to update the X-Status. To update the X-Status it seems to
(for some reason) scan the entire folder-- hence the delay.

Those are my non-scientific observations anyhow. And if you hit Insert to
"unread" them before exiting yarn seems to have a flag somewhere that says
there was a "change" made.. and so scans the whole folder on exiting anyhow.

Wheee. A slight annoyance... but a situation I can live with.

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