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 Message 1326 
 Marc Lewis to All 
 follow-up on: Message conversion 
 14 Apr 14 18:45:39 
 
Hello All.

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 ML> I'm presently working on a way to circumvent their insistance that
 ML> Base64 is plain text.  I should have the solution worked out
 ML> shortly but some of it involves some tricky batch programming to
 ML> look at message size and split them if over 16kB in size.  Easier
 ML> said than done with the programs available that post text to packet
 ML> or text to message.  Most if not all truncate at 16k rather than
 ML> split like Squish or GIGO do with long messages.  If someone knows
 ML> of a text to packet or text to message program that will do this
 ML> splitting automagically, please let me know by NetMail or e-mail.

FOUND IT! A newer version of MsgPost (v1.21) is Y2K compliant and can
auto-split messages to keep within FidoNet EchoMail specification.  You'll see
a sequence of messages making up for the Base64 ones starting from last Monday
when the Base64 junk started.

Best regards,
Marc

--- timEd 1.10.y2k+
 * Origin: Sursum Corda! BBS-Huntsville,AL-bbs.sursum-corda.com (1:396/45)

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