Subj : TOSS error report
To : Andrew Leary
From : mark lewis
Date : Fri Mar 10 2006 10:35 pm
ml> well above most known fidonet software, yes... i'm aware of several
ml> packages that can handle large messages without problems... one tosser,
ml> in fact, spools to disk based swap files when it runs out of memory
ml> that it can process in...
AL> Not a bad idea, although I'm sure that slows things down a bit.
speed is not always the best answer...
ml> and i hate to bring it up, yet again, but... if coders were to actually
ml> follow the specs, we'd not be having these "problems" with message
ml> sizes... fidonet specifications specifically allow for large messages
ml> via use of the phrasing "message body unbounded" ;)
AL> Yes, the specs have always said that, and almost nobody ever read
AL> that part! ;-)
oh, they read it but they didn't pay attention... instead they interpreted
and/or assigned their own specs... that is and always has been the downfall of
hobbiest coders :( sadly, i, too, am one of those... at least until i don't
know how many years ago... since then, the code that i've written has endevored
to follow the actual specs as far as it could... the really troublesome problem
that i've faced, personally over the years, is how so many terminals and users
could be handled by machines with only 64K of RAM and yet, today, it takes a
gig or more of RAM to barely service just one miniscule user :(
