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)

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