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 Message 1645 
 Vince Coen to Andrew Leary 
 Filefind file limit 
 25 Oct 17 14:36:30 
 
Hello Andrew!

Tuesday October 24 2017 23:50, you wrote to me:

 > Hello Vince!

 > 24 Oct 17 21:43, you wrote to all:

 VC>> Found it and it in mbfido/filefind.c

 VC>> There are four settings :

 VC>> ----
 VC>> /*
 VC>>  *  The next constants are to prevent overflowing the echomail
 VC>> areas
 VC>>  *  with huge replies. MAX_DESC_LINES limits the number of file
 VC>> description *  lines, 5 should be enough. The other two are the
 VC>> maximum files to report *  if in the same area or different area.
 VC>> * For netmail replies there is a different limit. */ #define
 VC>> MAX_DESC_LINES          5 #define MAX_FILES_SAMEBOARD     25
 VC>> #define MAX_FILES_OTHERBOARD    50 #define MAX_FILES_NETMAIL
 VC>> 100
 VC>> ----

 VC>> Andrew is there any way we can change these as a param for
 VC>> configure or better still within the system set up params ?

 > We can probably do something about that without too much trouble.  As
 > with anything, sysops will need to use common sense in setting limits
 > to prevent gigantic echomail messages.

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

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


Vince

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