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 Hello, Jerry Schwartz, I'd like you to meet my friend, Dr. Lao...

jb>> Thanks, I've located a 'localer' copy.  I 'collect' 
jb>> autoposters. :)

 JS> Do you have one for Squish echo areas? or one which builds 
 JS> .PKTs?  I'm using Harvey, but it chops a message at 16k.

I have three besides H that support SQ.

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MKMSG231.ZIP 41k 7/27/93 makes no mention of size limits or splitting.

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Rats, there's a version 1.1 in the files list at 249/114 but a freq
yields nothing. :(

From MSGPST10.ZIP 40k 1/5/92

                      MESSAGE SPLITTING AND SIZE LIMITS

    Most Fidonet mail processers impose a maximum message size,  for a
    variety of reasons.  Because of  this  limit  MsgPost includes the
    ability  to  automagically  split  large text files  into multiple
    messages.  I've not researched the limits for all, or even most of
    of the mail processers currently in use world wide, however it has
    been  discussed in a  National  development  conference,  and  the
    most popular processer limits are listed below.

    Squish      16K (exactly)
    TosScan     38K
    QMail       16K
    D'Bridge    48K (echomail only)
    Confmail   ~14K, else blow it out yer ear, dupe it, drop the floor,
                make sure eveyone receives 6 copies of it in case you
                accidently loose it, forget saving dupe data on it, but
                and retoss it again anyway just to make sure.. (makes up
                for all those zero length .msg files left over from the
                last run!)

    MsgPost defaults to a ~12Kb maximum message size,  however  allows
    up to ~16Kb by use of the "-S[##]" command line option.  Note that
    using  the  larger  sizes  WILL  break  some  of  the  common mail
    processers, and is NOT recommended!

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From PI_100.ZIP 70k 6/13/94

Message posting size may not be a question for you and your setup. However,  I
feel that  you should  know that  PostIt does  have "some" 
limitations in its
capability to post large files.

  MSG - unlimited size (will use up to 4Gig of diskspace for temp buffer)
  JAM - unlimited size (will use up to 4Gig of diskspace for temp buffer)
  SQU - approximate 32K limitation
  HMB - approximate 16K limitation
  EZY - approximate 16K limitation

The above limitations are imposed by the library of routines that I am  using.
They may be removed or increased in size in future versions of the routines or
PostIt. At this time,  PostIt will just truncate  any postings over the  above
stated limits without  notification. If the  postings are EchoMail,  your mail
tosser  will  have  to  place  the  TearLine  and  Origin Line on the exported
messages. Future versions may also allow automatic detection and splitting  of
overly large postings.   Only time and  registrations will tell.   One  should
note that the above testing was  done by having PostIt post the  entire 2.4Meg
FIDONet  NODELIST.056  as  a  message  >.  What your
mail tosser or BBS
Software does with it when it gets it is another matter.

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All of these are avail around CT if you get AF_ECHO.

I have used all of them, but only in *.msg mode.  I wrote a gadget that:

Reads current fidonet.no.
Look up moderator in several eltag.#.
Check address validity in v7 nodelist.
Generate netmail msg that says 'hey!'.

Uses 'autoposter of choice', supports about 4.  -Un-fortunately the
backbone folks decided to modify some existing software to do the job, so
here's this neat util that no one will ever use. [G]

:-)

jB-)

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