Subj : New freeciv games. To : mark lewis From : Janis Kracht Date : Thu Jul 24 2014 10:01 am Hi Mark, >> That was the reason that made it as both zip and rar and the rar is >> split of the games. > gert, then we have twice the drive space and bandwidth consumed... please > choose one format or the other [sigh] As far as Windows and Mac files go, one file is all you'll continue to see I see no point in distributing more that one type per "file". So I agree, sending out split archives of a game as well as one large separate archive makes no sense, and just strains systems down the line! >> The trouble with spit files is the file is just as big "total" as >> it was before you split it . It's a little easier to get out >> but I've heard from some people that they don't like split files. > they are easier to get out but you cannot recover the FILE_ID.DIZ from them > very easily... especially not with FDN processing software... so you end up > with crappy truncated descriptions for the parts :/ You are not alone in not liking split archives. I've stopped sending them out. If a file is too large to be sent out as one file, it's too large period > i much prefer the single file format instead of the following mess... the > descriptions are shite on *4* of the 6 parts of the multi-part archive :( File descriptions are ok over here for multi-part archives so I guess BBBS is doing something right .. but I understand that not all processors are going to work the same way as BBBS. Given the number of games that go through the filegate, I can understand what a PITA it sounds like for you. Take care, Janis --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-1 * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38) .