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Ärende: Fidonews Vol 30 no 19 Page: 2
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                         News From FileGate
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    News From FileGate
    By Janis Kracht, 1:261/38, janis@filegate.net

    This week you may have noticed a brief posting in the FILEGATE
    echo regarding adding a new file echo area to WIN_FDN.

    I've been receiving notices of shareware and freeware software
    for WINDOWS systems over the last several years.  These are
    generally good authors who are members of the Association of
    Shareware Professionals.  This week one of the authors who often
    contributes sent me notices regarding his software asking us to
    distribute his games.

    The files are HUGE.  Written for Windows, I suppose they can't
    help but be large, but for an author to ask us to distribute a
    file that is in the range of 1/2 gig to over a gigabyte in size
    was a bit much.  Still, I tried.

    The night before last, I set up an area for these huge files,
    and posted a notice stating we'd be carrying them, but not by
    the IFDC FileGate HUBs.  If one of the HUBs wanted to distribute
    the files, they were asked to contact me.

    As I set up this area and organized maybe 5 of these huge files on
    my system, their toll was immediately seen.. Zip didn't like
    adding the FileGate Archive comment .. and zip sure didn't like
    soring the files as is generally done with binary files.

    Now the problem that I ran into may have been related to storage
    space and temporary work space so that zip could create the
    containers (archives with no compression, i.e., zip -jm0
    filename.zip).  I have 471 Gig free on this system though.

    When the discussion ensued in the FILEGATE echo, I realized that
    these files would NOT be carried by us.  Perhaps I'll create an
    area where I'll hatch out the pad files the authors send me :)
    Then if someone wants to download these mega-files, they can do
    so :)








    FIDONEWS  Vol 30 No 19       Page  2         May 13, 2013


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