Subj : Squish limitations
To   : Minh Van Le
From : Paul Lentz
Date : Thu Mar 20 2008 01:42 pm

Minh Van Le wrote in a message to Paul Lentz:
MVL> Hello Paul !

MVL> On 15-Mar'08 14:48, Paul Lentz wrote to ALL:

MVL> Maximum message size: 63k (16 bit), 256k (32 bit)

PL> I've been wondering for long time about the message size as
PL> well. I think around the beginning of each month Squish
PL> boots out messages (I think in the STATS echo) that are big
PL> and renames the .pkt files to *.LNG.

MVL> I only got questions, not answers :)

MVL> I think I got those limits from the documentation but have never
MVL> tested them. I've never had *.lng files, or a "stats" echo. I'm not
MVL> aware that Squish creates statistics in an echoarea. Can you paste
MVL> the output of that echo ?;

The STATS echo is a fidonet echo where somebody periodicaly posts looooong
messages about all the echomail traffic. When Squish sees those looooong
messages, it skips over them (Because they bust some size limit) and renames
the 12345678.PKT file they came in to 12345678.LNG.

There is a utility called SQREPORT.EXE that will work up some stats. It's
included in the package and is kinda nice. Here's a small piece of what it
spits out...


                EchoMail Traffic Report From 1:124/5025
        Squish Log Report for 19 MAR 00:04 through 19 MAR 23:51
        -------------------------------------------------------

                          Inbound Messages
                          ----------------
                    754 Messages from 1:123/500.0
                     24 Messages from 1:106/1.0
                      5 Messages from 1:124/1113.0
                      1 Messages from 1:124/6308.0


                  Outbound Packets (uncompressed)
                  -------------------------------
                   2.12 Megs sent to 1:124/6308
                 488.65 Kb   sent to 1:124/2700
                 313.61 Kb   sent to 1:124/5013
                 182.14 Kb   sent to 1:124/3006
                 171.76 Kb   sent to 1:130/803
                 158.66 Kb   sent to 1:124/1113
                 144.76 Kb   sent to 1:393/11
                  28.87 Kb   sent to 1:123/500
                  28.08 Kb   sent to 1:124/7013

It then spits out traffic by specific echos live/dead, which I won't paste in
here cause it can take pages... But I use a thing called carve to turn them
into 3 or 4 messages.


MVL> Are you using Squish/386 (32 bit) or Squish (16 bit) ?

SQ386.EXE


*Paul*
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* Origin: Dumb Guy's!!! (1:124/5025)