Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!um-math!dyer
From: dyer@math.lsa.umich.edu (Jon Brode)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: terminator archive
Message-ID: <726@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu>
Date: 11 Jul 89 15:47:39 GMT
References: <8906301327.AA24937@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Sender: usenet@math.lsa.umich.edu
Reply-To: dyer@math.lsa.umich.edu (Jon Brode)
Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept., Ann Arbor
Lines: 18
UUCP-Path: {mailrus,umix}!um-math!dyer

In article <8906301327.AA24937@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> HIGGS_M@P1.LANCSP.AC.UK (Mike Higgs) writes:
>Hi,
>that might be wrong is the size of parts a and b but my friend received a file
> that was 816 lines long, surely the other parts aren't that big?? Mail from the

Yup, they are that big. As a matter of fact, they're a lot bigger. 
Uuencoded file get chunked into 1500 line parts. Some people have
requested that we make chunks about 750 lines (approx 50k). I'm not
sure what the trade off is, in terms of system resources, for sending
fewer large messages verses more small messages. 

At any rate, it appears that we need to get a new uuencoder (epecially
if we send smaller chunks). The one I'm using now only handles about
30 parts before breaking. Where can I get one that handles >30 parts
more gracefully? (this is for a un*x box)

Jon Brode  --  dyer@math.lsa.umich.edu
  Termiatnor Atari Archive Moderator