-=> Quoting Roy J. Tellason to Leonard Erickson <=-

 RJT> I too have fiddled with that setting,  but ran into trouble anyway...

 RJT> Thing is,  the trouble wasn't in my setup here,  nor in GIGO,  but
 RJT> upstream a couple of links,  where they'd decided that 100k was a
 RJT> maximum email size.  And there doesn't appear to be anything I can do
 RJT> about it. 

Since we are "end nodes", we don't have to worry about other folks. We
get a uucp feed from a local ISP I know, and we don't forward mail or
newsgroups to other Fido systems. Makes life a *lot* simpler. 

 RJT> I used to watch as Eudora Light pulled in email and,  when it got
 RJT> something bigger than about 64k or so,  it would split it up.  Why? 
 RJT> Beats the heck out of me... 

Easy, dealing with a buffer bigger than 64k is a royal pain unless you
are in protected mode.

I'd love to see how some of these authors would deal with situations
I've had to work with in the past. For example, on an old 8-bit system
where the programs only had 32k after the OS and BIOS, I had to sort
records in file that filled a 180k disk. It was a 2-drive system, and
one drive was needed for the OS disk. So no way to sort to another
drive. I cheated, I used a built-in command for sorting an array in
RAM, and just "stepped thru" the file. Sure, it took multiple passes,
but it was a hell of a lot faster than trying to sort the records one
at a time with the interpreted BASIC!


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