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- MaxPKT 2.5 by Mat Bettinson of the Plot Hatching Factory.
-
- Xenolink and some other tossers, have an annoying habit of creating a great
- deal of outgoing packets for a single system feed.
-
- IE:
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- 2.254.524.0.FLO
- 2.254.524.0.DUT
- 2.254.524.0.MO0
- 2.254.524.0.MO1
- 2.254.524.0.TU0
- 2.254.524.0.TU1
- etc etc etc...
-
- There is NO NEED for that at all AFAICS and it just annoys in the amount of
- files in your outbound which on large mail feed systems can get
- ridiculous. It also adds to the transfer time since Zmodem has a certain
- overhead per file meaning those tiny 300 byte packets take as long as a 10K
- would have otherwise if they were the same packet.
-
- Enter MaxPKT. It scans your outbound and attempts to create a single
- outgoing ECHO MAIL packet for each system. It works quite quickly (since it
- was originally going to extract then add with LHA I wrote it to be fairly
- intelligent so it does the least work needed) and on consequetive executions
- it won't take very long to decide it isn't needed so adding to INBOUNDMAIL
- is a real possibility and/or Cron execution.
-
- Usage is basic:
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- [rx] MaxPKT2 <outbound dir>
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- Outbound dir isn't even needed if you alter the header of the script to give
- it a default value. The command line overrides the default value if you
- need to....
-
- New for 2.5: MaxPKT now knows to ignore packets that aren't LHA archives.
- bit silly to miss that... Oops!
-
- OK that's about it... I don't think I'll be doing much more work on the
- Xenolink platform but maybe the odd script will come by. I'll probably
- complete my Dopus file-cat utility before I stop development for it totally
- but I hope to make some more general utils for all BBS platforms like this.
-
- "There's a new outlaw in town and this guy is stronger, meaner and faster than
- the lil' old Sherrif..."
-
- Be well and Merry Christmas to you all.
-
- Mat Bettinson (E-Mail mat@darkside.demon.co.uk, Fido: 2:254/205.0)
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