JC>> something to keep in mind;  but are there known programs
 JC>> that have problems with the number of msgs in a packet?
 JC>> I'd always thought the problem was with the size of some
 JC>> messages, in a packet..

 MK> How about the size of the entire pkt?  I am not sure what the
 MK> limit might be but offhand I'd guess there is one for DOS.

that depends on the version of DOS... there was a 2gig limit at one time
but i don't know what version of DOS was the last one to have that...

generally speaking, though... the PKT size doesn't matter to a mail tosser
since it reads the PKT header and then starts pulling out the messages, one
at a time and simply stepping thru the PKT till the end...

the only way, off the top of my head, that i can see a tosser having a
problem with a large PKT file is if it is trying to count something and (in
DOS think) runs out of positive numbers in a longint (signed -2g to +2g)
variable...

)\/(ark