Hi, Paul.

PE> And 3 seconds a day for 365 days at Bill's STD rate is something
PE> like 3/60*25*365 = $4.65 per year.  Then there's Roy + Rod, say
PE> another $4.65 between them.  Then there's the fact that all the
PE> callers are tying up my BBS for 3 seconds longer than they need
PE> to, and you start to see a pattern emerging.

PE> Which reminds me...

PE> Rod Speed, Brenton Vettoretti and Frank Malcolm, you are sending
PE> me a 00000000.PKT, when you could instead be sending me a
PE> 00000000.MO0 which is compressed.  In the name of not being
PE> inconsiderate arsewipes, why don't you add a

Now back when I first became a point, *you* suggested that this was not
going to be a problem because the up message packets are so small.
Cripes, the whole upload only takes a few seconds.

PE> "zip -9k 00000000.MO0 00000000.PKT" to your batch files?  You
PE> can change the 9k to 9km if you want to automatically delete
PE> the PKT file after compression is successful.

And what's this "zip", and "-9k" stuff? I use PKZIP
which doesn't know
about those options. If -9k means max compression, I should be using -ex
- is that what you meant?

PE> Oh, and the main point I am writing to you about...

PE> Now that things are back to normal, I have taken the liberty
PE> of removing that 3 second delay again.  I have also taken a
PE> look at the tinypoint script, and it appears that it has a
PE> 1-second delay in it before sending out the yoohoo.  Why don't
PE> you try seeing what happens if you drop the 1 second delay?

Done, we'll see how it goes. There's another delay after the ACK, and
another after everything's done - remove them too?

Regards, FIM.

 * * Xenobiology was never my fort‚.
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