Hi! Wilfred,   
      
   On Tue, 25 Jul 17, you wrote to me:   
      
    PQ>>  A simple command-line argument will fix that,   
    PQ>>  you say...  ;-)   
      
    WvV> I said that wrong. It's an environment variable you have   
    WvV> to set. ;)   
      
   No problem.  I can do them too.   
      
    WvV> If that is set the drive letter plus colon is replaced with   
    WvV> the contents of the environment variable and "\"'s are   
    WvV> converted to "/"'s in the configuration paths.   
      
   Ah-huh.  Sweet.   
      
    WvV> However FConfigW32 checks and creates paths when you   
    WvV> configure them, so it would be much easier if it does that   
    WvV> on the "shared" drive were the real files exist. So you   
    WvV> don't have to create them by hand on the linux drive, and   
    WvV> copy over the configuration files, with the chance you   
    WvV> make mistakes, every time you change something in the   
    WvV> config.   
      
   Mistakes... nah, ain't gonna happen.  I'm a profeesioanl anatuer.  ;-)   
      
    WvV> FMail uses the most memory when it calls the JAMmaint   
    WvV> function. It does that when messages are tossed into a Jam   
    WvV> area, and you have 'Update reply chains' configured to   
    WvV> 'Yes', or when the 'FTools Maint' command is used. It will   
    WvV> at least use twice as much memory as the combined size of   
    WvV> the 4 files that make up a Jam area. So memory usage will   
    WvV> depend on your largest Jam area.   
      
   Not a problem.  The biggest area currently is BinkD, at ~20Mb.  There again,   
   I'll be starting off the Fmail/Linux environment from scratch.   
      
    WvV> Everything else is in the kilobyte range or maybe lower   
    WvV> megabyte range, so more or less neglectable, I suspect,   
    WvV> because I've never measured this. ;)   
      
   :)  Nice to know.  Thank you, kindly.   
      
   Cheers,   
   Paul.   
      
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