Text 178, 50 rader
Skriven 2006-02-16 00:54:34 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
    Kommentar till text 174 av Alan Ianson (1:153/757)
Ärende: Quick Question
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ml>  AI> but if there are a lot of files recieved on any day they get split 
ml>  AI> at 32kb. I'm pretty sure any tosser on any OS can toss those.. :)
ml> 
ml> yup but who really wants to be tossing 100's of small messages when 
ml> tossing one will do, go faster, and take up less space (due to no 
ml> duplication of the headers and other control information) O:)

 AI> Yep, posting ten 32kb msgs instead of one 320kb message doesn't
 AI> seem like a very good solution. 

you're darned tootin... especially considering all the additional info that
needs to be added to each one... the header is at least 40 characters (for
argument's sake, we'll use that figure for calculations) so that means at least
another 400 bytes _plus_ the additional seenbys, paths, and (at least) origin
lines... then you also have to add in the additional overhead for the ^aSPLIT
lines and anything else that is added during the process of splitting...

 AI> Even at that I've only seen it get split once so I've never really 
 AI> had much reason to think about it. I leave it at that because I've 
 AI> had tossers crash in the past and don't wish that on anyone.

no doubt... in fact, i doubt that anyone who has really moved the mail hasn't
had a tosser crash...

 AI> I guess that third party utility you spoke of is a good option if a
 AI> tosser can't do the deed itself, although I don't like the idea
 AI> much. 

i'f my system is the last one remaining that can't handle messages larger than
32k (for instance) why should everyone else in the network have to be saddled
with messages that small? the only real problem i'm aware of in this area is
that this util might not be available for some platforms that may be being used
in fidonet... however, i must also state that i'm not aware of any remaining
systems running things like the COCO, TI99, TRS-80's or other antiquated
machines... i'd possibly even go so far as to hazard a guess that most everyone
is running at least a "current" or "recent" OS, too... in this day in time,
that means windows 98, 2000, ME, or XP, LINUX in some flavor, OS/2, and
possibly the old apple system 9 (i think it was called)... newer
apple/machintosh machines are running a flavor of linux and even their chipset
is currently changing to intel based chips instead of motorola stuff...

 AI> Tossers that I know of, that are still being developed (HPT, MBSE,
 AI> SBBSECHO) and likely more that I have no experience with, do toss
 AI> large messages so we are moving in the right direction.

yup!

)\/(ark

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