Hello Sean!
03 Sep 24, Sean Rima wrote to All:
I am trying to post a text file to an echo but it is causing somne dos systems problems due to the size. If there a config item that can
split the file and post as multiple parts
There are several points to hook this. Golded has
EDITMSGSIZE <bytes> (64000 in DOS, 512000 in OS/2 or 386)
This lets you limit the size of loaded msgs. GoldED currently
cannot handle msgs larger than 64k in the DOS version (the 386 and
OS/2 versions do not have this limit). This keyword ensures that
the system will not get confused and possibly crash or exit, if a
message was encountered that was larger than 64k.
at least a bugfix that stops crashing. I think the concept was to left this function to the tosser because there is FSC-47. hpt does have size limitation keywords for the the areafix postings (areafixmsgsize) but i didn't found something for the user messages. There is -u for the hpt post function,
hpt post -h | more
-u[size] uue-multipart posting
size - number of lines per section(150 for default)
but i don't know if that works for any text or if it's limited to uue only.
The *nix solution would use the split utility. It can split by size or by lines.
man split
-b, --bytes=SIZE
put SIZE bytes per output file
-C, --line-bytes=SIZE
put at most SIZE bytes of lines per output file
-l, --lines=NUMBER
put NUMBER lines per output file
If we are talking about automated postings then i would tinker split into the pre-processing posting chain.
Regards
Kai
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