john1233@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Thomas M Johnson) (09/23/88)
I have a program that is ARC'd and UUdecoded and ready to post.
But it is kind of BIG (4347 lines) and I want to know what
is the best size to break this down into? 9 groups of
500 lines? Or bigger, or smaller?
Any suggestions?
Tom Johnson
john1233@csd4.milw.wisc.edu
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All flames by E-mail please.haugj@pigs.UUCP (John F. Haugh II) (09/23/88)
In article <6861@uwmcsd1.UUCP> john1233@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Thomas M Johnson) writes: >I have a program that is ARC'd and UUdecoded and ready to post. >But it is kind of BIG (4347 lines) and I want to know what >is the best size to break this down into? 9 groups of >500 lines? Or bigger, or smaller? > >Any suggestions? try to keep the size of any file you ever mail over the net to under 64K as an absolute maximum. less than 50K is a much better limit. personally, i try to keep files under 5 minutes transmission time per file. this seems to prevent major losage from files being trashed by a line hit in the middle of a file. a 500 line uuencoded file is right at 30,000 bytes. that should work just fine. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-The Beach Bum at The Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers-=-=-=-=-=-= Very Long Address: John.F.Haugh@rpp386.dallas.tx.us Very Short Address: jfh@rpp386 "ANSI C: Just say no" -- Me