Subj : Packet splitter
To   : Steve Quarrella
From : Barry Blackford
Date : Fri Apr 20 2001 10:42 am

Hello there Steve!

19 Apr 01 at 13:14, Steve Quarrella writes to Barry Blackford:

BB>> 17 Jan 01 at 14:13, Steve Quarrella writes to Frank Vest:
BB>> I havn't read here lately (abviously),
SQ> Yeah, I'd say. <g>

:-)

BB>> Ah a sneakernet! I didn't think there were any of those left!
SQ> I have since gotten the LAN up and running here, and got around
SQ> my original issue quite easily.  Given that I'm a LAN
SQ> administrator in the real world, I'm a dead man without a little
SQ> bit of ethernet in my life!

Yep, I was surprised at the sneakernet to say the least!

BB>> I thought this was a 1-off? as it seems to be not, why not set
BB>> fastech to a max archive size (Nodemgr/Max size) and be done with
BB>> it?

SQ> As I recall, the issue was splitting up a large packet.  Doing what you
SQ> suggest after the fact wouldn't have addressed the issue. <G>

Oh well, my next suggestion was to use "SPLIT" which can be run from a batch
file to split the files into specified sizes, it may help someone else, you
never now..?

Best Rgds, Bazz
[email protected]
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