On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 03:19:47 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote:

> On Fri, 09 Nov 2001 20:22:39 -0400, Glenn McCorkle wrote:

>> On Thu, 08 Nov 2001 03:11:26 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote:

>>> Ahah! That means it IS Insight that ignores the existence of the already
>>> generated index then ?
>>> Don't you wish this had come up before your recent improvement to Insight ?
>>> <G>

>> Nope.

>> Insight can't make the decision one way or the other as to
>> either "ignoring" it or paying attention to it.
>> (all insight does is to go right ahead and do what core tells it to do)

>> Core makes the determination as to whether or not to have
>> insight create the index file.

>> 1) file exists..... display it.
>> 2) file does not exist..... tell insight to create it.
>> 3) file exists but for some unknown reason core did not see it.... tell
>> insight to create it
>> (therefore overwriting the one that was already there)

>> Maybe it's a "full-cache".

> That is illogical, Mr Spock.

> If I hit "I" (after creating an index), a new index is NEVER created.
> If I select a message and view it, thereby getting an "INDEX" button,
> and hit that button, a new index is ALWAYS created.
> If instead I had hit "I" there will be no new index.
> If instead I hit "ESC" (for back) SOMETIMES a new index is created.

> Seems to me the cache is just as full in all the above conditions. ;-)

> Also seems to me that core is the thing interpreting both hotkey "I"
> and the button argument file://inbox.dgi. Seems they do not resolve
> to the same thing. i.e. ok, Insight re-creates the index when core
> exercises the line in mime.cfg. That's fair.
> But shouldn't core check to see if the index exists first ?
> It seems do that on the "I" hotkey. :)

 You say: "....SOMETIMES a new index is created."

When "sometimes" occures.
Is there a fullmoon??? <g>

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