MBUTIL SORT

    Usage:

        MBUTIL Sort [-All] [-Backup] [-Pack]

    The Sort command can  be used to  sort all unread messages  by
    board number and post date and time. This has two advantages:

      + When using combined read mode to read new messages for example,
        you won't see messages from different boards mixed up.
      + It reduces the chance that you read a reply to a message before
        you  actually  read the  message  that  was  replied to,  which
        happened pretty often to  me and which was actually  the reason
        why I started  writing MBUTIL in the first place!  But from one
        thing came another...

        Reading  replies  before the  original  messages is  in  most  cases
        caused  by  echo  mail  processors that  don't  sort  incoming  mail
        packets, but I think that DOESN'T HAVE TO BE the case, since a reply
        can simply have a shorter or  faster PATH than the message that  was
        replied to.

        MBUTIL checks if  there is enough disk  space available. After  that
        it scans LASTREAD.BBS to find the highest message that was  read  by
        all users.   MBUTIL  assumes there are actually messages to sort and
        starts  rewriting   MSGHDR.BBS  and   MSGTOIDX.BBS  while   scanning
        MSGHDR.BBS to  find out where  to start sorting.  I could  have used
        MSGIDX.BBS for this, but the current way is more reliable and  works
        faster  if  there actually  are messages  to  sort, which  will most
        likely be  the case if you run Sort only each time new messages were
        tossed in to the message base.

        MBUTIL will  remove  all reply  chains while  sorting, so you should
        run 'MBUTIL Link'  each time you used Sort.  The next version  might
        Link  while  Sorting.   This version  can  sort  up  to  about  9360
        messages.

        You can use '-All' to sort  the entire message base, but THIS IS NOT
        RECOMMENDED FOR BBS SYSTEMS,  as IT DOES NOT UPDATE THE LASTREAD.BBS
        POINTERS (I suggest you delete LASTREAD.BBS if you use this switch).
        It was only added because some POINTS in the beta-team requested it.

        Switches:

          -All       Sort entire message base (ignores LASTREAD pointers)
          -Backup    Keep the original MSGHDR.BBS as backup (.BAK)
          -Pack      Remove header records of deleted messages




        The rest of MBUTIL is actually a clone of TosScan(q) Message Utility
        (TSUTIL) 1.00, with some additions and improvements here and  there.
        TSUTIL  was written by Mats Wallin and Joaquim Homrighausen. I  hope
        they won't be angry with me! ;-)