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   Message 13,910 of 16,010   
   Jay Harris to g00r00   
   Origin of extra lines?   
   06 Sep 21 07:52:20   
   
   TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A47   
   MSGID: 1:229/664 6f8363bd   
   TZUTC: -0400   
   Hi g00r00,   
      
   I'm not 100% sure, but I may have discovered the origin of the extra empty   
   lines being displayed in some messages.   
      
   I posted a message yesterday to HobbyNet and I remember it looking fine when I   
   posted it.  It even looked fine when I came back to the message a few hours   
   later to press 'X' to download a copy of it.   
      
   When I came back to the message this morning, a mysterious extra blank line   
   appeared.  The only thing that would have happened between that time would be   
   my nightly maintenance that runs, so I shut mis down and ran ./mutil maint.ini   
   and sure enough, a second empty line was added to the message:   
      
   https://ibb.co/BzNkvfr   
      
   Each subsequent run of ./mutil maint.ini will then add another empty line to   
   the message:   
      
   https://ibb.co/XX5pNLc   
   https://ibb.co/JdFY7gS   
      
   I believe it may be the PackMessageBases that's adding these lines as when I   
   ran ./mutil -run PurgeMessageBases another line was not added.   
      
   I run ./mutil maint.ini each night after shutting mis down (./mis shutdown and   
   then sleep for 15 seconds).  My maint.ini includes:   
      
   PurgeMessageBases  = true   
   PackMessageBases   = true   
   PackFileBases      = true   
   FileSort           = true   
   LinkMessages       = true   
   PurgeUserBase      = true   
   PackUserBase       = true   
      
      
   For now I've set PackMessageBases to false, just to prevent more lines from   
   being added.   
      
   Let me know if you'd like me to zip up this JAM base & email it to you if   
   you'd like to play around with it.   
      
      
   Jay   
      
   ... To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.   
      
   --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/08/29 (Raspberry Pi/32)   
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