RS> The message base scan seems a little fast than the Madhouse. The packup
 RS> about the same. I will have to time some, those are just estimates. OTOH
 RS> with an automated QWK run I tend to remember the time showing on the
 RS> session time status display just when the Zmodem status pops up for the
 RS> download of the QWK. I couldnt check it that time since I was tagging
 RS> too.

I tried doing some timings, by using -es to make pkzip pack faster, but it
turned out that the time saved was less than the transmission time.

 RS> One small wart is that the last 2 QWKs, both downloaded on Sunday, didnt
 RS> have a PERSONAL.IDX. This appears to be used by OLX as the total check
 RS> for personal mail, so it thinks there isnt any in the QWK.

I've asked a question in the Maximus echo, and have a theoretical solution,
but I can't test it until Paul Markham comes back on Monday, so it isn't in
yet.

 RS> And wot ave you done with AVT ?  Cant see it at all.

Whoops!  It was one of the first ones I had in, and I copied it x million
times to model all the other echos.  Obviously it should have been x
million + 1 to leave the original!

 RS> So things looks pretty reasonable OTW.  Small step for mankind etc.

Except for the lousy 56% rate that you just had.  I'll get on to Mike
Bourne tomorrow.  That is quite disgusting.  I am wondering if I switch of
error correction (*E0) whether that would help?  Can't test this sort of
thing unless I can reproduce it with Paul Markham. It isn't consistently
bad, unfortunately. Very strange I've never noticed this before.  Perhaps
it is because I rarely upload?  BFN.

Paul

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