Hello Paul!

19 Mar 08 02:10, Paul Lentz wrote to Mike Tripp:

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

Scott basically tried to support whatever the environment had to
offer...which is why the 16-bit DOS, 32-bit DOS, OS/2, etc. versions as
released all had different limits.  Don't know about the Win32 flavor,
myself, as it was released solo, after the general release of the
others...sort of a "So long and thanks for all the fish", before
he left Fido.

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

In that case you just need to add the undocumented Winders command
"DEL *.LNG" somewhere in your mail processing routine's tossing
block.  Seriously, if they're breaking Squish, they're probably
gonna break something else you're running later once you adjust Squish to
pass them further into the food chain.

I've also had good luck negotiating with the originator of the long
messages...since it seems that most don't mind folks actually being able to
read them.  A little whining about the BinkD FAQ got it split down to
chunks that DOS GoldEd could swallow at the source. I run the DOS version
under DOS, OS/2, and Windows...since it is the only one that will.
 Before that, I'd have to switch to the OS/2 box and fire up GoldEd/2 just
to kill the offending message in order to regain normal access to the area
everywhere else.

.\\ike

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