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to: Paul Lentz
from: Fred Riccio
date: 2008-03-20 22:02:04
subject: Squish limitations

Hello Paul!

15 Mar 08 14:48, Paul Lentz wrote to ALL:

 PL> I've been wondering for long time about the message size as well. I 
 PL> think around the beginning of each month Squish boots out messages (I 
 PL> think in the STATS echo) that are big and renames the .pkt files to 
 PL> *.LNG.

 PL> I've looked around before and never found any way to deal with these 
 PL> long messages or the *.lng packet files. Is there a way to do this?

I wrote a small utility program in VB4 to dig through the *.lng files and
rebuild the packet, splitting the long messages into smaller ones (the size
is configurable).  Did you say you run Win98?  I can run it through the 16
bit compiler if you want to try it out.


Regards,
Fred

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