Paul Tomblin wrote:
>
>The problem is that I have 250,000 articles in this mbox file, so when I
>tried to arch it, arch ended up using over 1Gb of swap space, and it
>slowed my computer down to a crawl.  I gave up and used the mbox splitter
>awk program I found in the list archives and I'm now building the archives
>500 messages at a time.  Hope that works.


It should.

Also, you can effectively do the same thing without breaking up the
mbox by using the --start= and --end= options on bin/arch. See

 bin/arch --help

-- 
Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>       The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan

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