Mike Tripp wrote in a message to Paul Lentz:

 MVL>> Maximum message size: 63k (16 bit), 256k (32 bit)

 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.

MT> OS/2 exe (which you may be running?) can be configured to toss as
MT> large as OS/2 has resources to support.  256K is just the largest
MT> Scott Dudley tested with and supported by the canned keyword
MT> "Buffers Large".  You have to define buffers manually to go
MT> higher...and have the resources to support them available, of
MT> course. If you want 1gb messages, Squish (SQ386P) can process
MT> them...but maybe your other utils (BBS, online readers, offline
MT> readers) or downlinks can't. 

I'm actually running it on a semi-modern Winders98Se machine with like only
256 (or maybe it's 512, can't remember) mego-rams... but I might toy with
the buffers statement and see if it does anything else.

MT> IMHO, messages too long for "Buffers Large" were messages I didn't
MT> care to actually read anyway.

The main point is tht I'd like Squish to at least pretend to handle them
and not create annoying renamed .LNG files I have to delete by hand from
time to time. I know I don't want to read those longy things my own self.

*Paul*
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