Hi Mike,

 MP> I am using v1.11.  Someone posted here a while back how to 
 MP> force squish not to compress for a particular node.  In other 
 MP> words, to leave the outbound packets in PKT form.  I made the 
 MP> change, but the message has since scrolled off.

I use the following general method to do this -

        SEND    HOLD    NOARC   NOCOMPS
          ... other "SEND HOLD" or "ROUTE HOLD" lines
as needed ...
        ROUTE   HOLD            UPLINK WORLD

(the names in upper case are DEFINES for a group of nodes) and it works
fine for me. The main point to note here here is that I use HOLD as the
Flavour to PROCESS all the mail. 

 MP> I have the following in my ROUTE.CFG file, and squish is still making
 MP> compressed packets for the node in question:
 MP>  
 MP> Send    Normal NoArc  1:2320/105.999
 MP> Send            Normal World
 MP>  
 MP> The 1:2320/105.999 is my Internet REX gateway node.  Packets for it have
 MP> to be in PKT form or they won't go out.

The problem here (IMHO) is trying to process mail using the NORMAL Flavour,
it can (and does) produce strange results at times.

After creating the output files as HOLD, I then change the Flavour to
NORMAL or CRASH as appropriate. I have used this method since about 1992
and its worked great.

Cheers.....................pk.


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