ml> JAM message bases should be good for messages up to 2Gig in size... i
 ml> know that back in the heyday, when i was working on my posting tool, i
 ml> posted the complete nodelist to my JAM bases numerous times... where i
 ml> ran into problems was with the tools i used to read the messages in
 ml> the JAM bases... many of those tools were limited in their memory
 ml> allocation and thus limited in the size of a message they could
 ml> display...

 PQ> Sorry to rouse you to reply to my plea.  You're right, of course. 

not a problem, paul... i just happened to catch that you were having a
problem with JAM bases and thought i might be of some assistance...

 PQ> I just had a squiz at the latest available source for Transnet and
 PQ> the limits are... 

 PQ>   #define MAXMSGLINE 1000
 PQ>   #define MAXMSGSIZE 64000L

 PQ> It's written in fugly C and I haven't been anything like a master
 PQ> in that for over 11 years, so I don't know precisely what the
 PQ> second value is other than it is likely to be a 64k limit with a
 PQ> type declaration.

ugh! that does appear to be a programer coded limitation :(  why didn't
they use the available JAM libraries? that's rhetorical, of course...

 ml> i don't think that your problem is with the storage in JAM
 ml> bases unless the tools you are using to place those digest posts in
 ml> the JAM bases are similarly limited like the readers i speak of
 ml> above...

 PQ> Yep, right again.  Both goldEd and SemPoint have the same trouble. 
 PQ> Even a 'write to disk' command from goldEd produces a truncated
 PQ> file - I have one to prove it, along with the original version
 PQ> prior to posting by Transnet. 

ewww :(

i do hope you find a solution to your problem (and tools that properly
support JAM bases)... i've been rather involved in other projects lately
which has lead me down other coding roads quite far from what i used to
code in or i might be inclined to offer up a properly working JAM tool for
your needs... i might actually already have one (my PostIt! text file tool)
that you can use if your digests come in and can be processed to raw text
files directly from the mailbox... hopefully that mailbox is not a FTN
format but something from a mail reader or similar...

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