Jon, Maybe a later version of Eudora would do the trick.There is also a clumsy DOS program: Chop31.exe which will do what it's name says. Here's the beginning of its help screen, which you get when you do CHOP31: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHOP -- version: 3.1 Last update: 03/01/88 Copyright, Walter J. Kennamer, 1987 PPN: 74025,514 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHOP breaks big files into smaller ones. A number of options are supported to determine exactly where the breaks take place. ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Usage: A>CHOP infile [-switches] "Infile" is a unambiguous file name. The original input file will be unchanged. The output files will have the same stem as the input file, but the extension will be numbered consecutively from 1. For example, if you break FOO.BAR into three smaller files, FOO.BAR will be unchanged, and there will be three output files--FOO.1, FOO.2 and FOO.3.See following screens for a description of switches. ¦Of course, maybe CHOP31 has a limit, too. I'll zip it up and attach it.Let me know what happens, because I'm fairly familiar with Eudora (not an expert, but . . .)--HarryMy email client, Eudora, decided that it could no longer read its In box (In.mbx), and I discovered why: It had grown to more than 2 GB. In the past, I have fixed Eudora crises by editing In.mbx with XY4, which sees it as just a giant text file. XY4 will open this file, too, with a message saying Disk Is Full Writing To Overflow File. There's plenty of room on the disk--I would guess I'm up against some 2GB limit. I can highight things to be deleted and delete them, which would probably repair the file enough for use. However, XY4 won't SAve the edited file--it freezes. Wordpad and M$ Word won't let me read the mbx file, although I have renamed it as a .txt. They just show empty boxes. Is there any way to deal with this ridiculously large file? For instance, is there some tool to just chop it in half in the middle? That would destroy one email, but probably make the file small enough for XY4.Or is there another ASCII editor that might be able to handle it? Jon ParelesAttachment: CHOP31.ZIP
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