Subj : *.pkt
To   : Kevin Klement
From : Mike Tripp
Date : Thu Mar 18 2010 12:33 am

Hello Kevin!

17 Mar 10 18:28, Kevin Klement wrote to All:

KK> I'm running the 386 MS-DOS flavor of Squish.

KK> How large of *.pkt files can it handle, newgroups files, sometimes
KK> HUGE files.

It's a shame if your newsgroup util doesn't have enough sense to build more
than one PKT, but I don't think the PKT size will matter to Squish as long as
you have the disk space for the PKT and MSG versions of the data.

What =will= matter is the size of the individual messages, as they will get
stored in RAM after they are extracted from the PKTs but before they are
inserted into the messagebase.  That will depend on your "Buffers" statement in
the config:

===
The defaults for the 32-bit versions of Squish (SQ386 and
SQ386P) are:

BUFFERS   writebuf       outbuf         msgbuf
Small     64k            64k            64k
Medium    76k            128k           128k
Large     128k           512k           256k
===

You can also assign your own specific values for each buffer if you don't like
the Small/Medium/Large shortcuts.

.\\ike

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