Subj : Filefind file limit
To   : mark lewis
From : Vince Coen
Date : Tue Oct 31 2017 17:47:20

Hello mark!

Wednesday October 25 2017 11:10, you wrote to me:

Mbse has a fixed limit of 60 and 64, so short of changing the code I am stuck.

It was only an idea any way of reducing resources.


 >  On 2017 Oct 25 14:36:30, you wrote to Andrew Leary:

 AL>>> In the future, I can look at possibly splitting large replies
 AL>>> into multiple messages.

 VC>> In mbse there is a 60/64k message limit does this still apply in
 VC>> fido land these days with internet comms used for most if not all
 VC>> sysops ?

 > there never was a limit on message size... what everyone has been
 > seeing is arbitrary limits placed by ""lazy"" coders*... the tech
 > standard states that message bodies are unbounded which means there is
 > no limit set... this leaves plenty of room for expansion as technology
 > grows... we can see this by this very 64k barrier... it used to be
 > 32k... these days, memory is accessed differently and the barrier is
 > much much larger... effectively, each system is limited by drive
 > space*N where N is the number of copies of the message a system makes
 > when processing the message... copies because of sending to other
 > systems in a distribution system (eg: fidonet)...


 > * ""lazy"" coders: those who didn't implement some sort of disk-based
 > overflow system so they could process messages too large to fit into
 > the memory allocation scheme of the time... sure, the larger messages
 > would be processed slower but they would be processed and passed on...
 > no need for splitting... splitting should be done only when the
 > messages are stored in a local message base that has arbitrary message
 > size limits in place... split the message when initially stored...
 > reassemble it into one when exporting it to other systems (eg: they
 > rescanned the area)... the ^ASPLIT spec is perfect for this but some
 > chose to use it at another point in the process...


Vince

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