• PKWare files in PKDOS, PKLIN and PKWIN32

    From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to All on Wednesday, April 10, 2013 17:19:18
    *Originally posted in IFDC

    Two of these files are so huge that I only hatched them out to three people today..

    I will get them out to the other HUBs in the next few days or maybe tonight.

    The DOS file wasn't so big (4Meg), but the other two are 15Meg and 23Meg.

    Thanks for sending them over Gert.

    Take care,
    Janis

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-1
    * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)
  • From Timothy Cornett@1:135/364 to Janis Kracht on Thursday, April 11, 2013 07:46:14
    Re: PKWare files in PKDOS, PKLIN and PKWIN32


    Two of these files are so huge that I only hatched them out to three people today..

    I got them here at Deep space with no problem, already hatched the win32 version out to a couple people.

    Tim

    --- Virtual Advanced Ver 2 for DOS
    * Origin: Deep Space 69 BBS - telnet://ds69bbs.com - Florida (1:135/364)
  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to Timothy Cornett on Thursday, April 11, 2013 09:40:30
    Hi Tim,

    Two of these files are so huge that I only hatched them out to three people >> today..

    I got them here at Deep space with no problem, already hatched the win32 version out to a couple people.

    Good :) I sent them out to all the HUBs early last night and then later in the evening.

    Take care,
    Janis

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-1
    * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)
  • From Vince Coen@2:250/1 to Janis Kracht on Thursday, April 11, 2013 17:28:23
    Hello Janis!

    10 Apr 13 17:19, you wrote to All:

    Two of these files are so huge that I only hatched them out to three
    people today..

    I will get them out to the other HUBs in the next few days or maybe
    tonight.

    The DOS file wasn't so big (4Meg), but the other two are 15Meg and
    23Meg.


    Having seen these anounced in allfix-file etc, most of them look old eg, rehatched files going back years!

    Please ask the sender not to do this.

    Another two points:
    I am noticing a lot of files coming through without the tag to delete old version of the same program/package, please ask all to start reusing this feature as it keeps the volume of the file base under some level of control.

    File Descriptions: Do not need the name of the file nor tons of junk characters
    eg, pretty ? boxes etc. While these may work on some BBS systems they screw up on others including mine and as my bbs does not have a file description editor there is little I can do about it.

    Thanks for reading,

    Vince

    --- Linux/Mbse/GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20120229
    * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK (2:250/1)
  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to Vince Coen on Thursday, April 11, 2013 16:14:44
    Hi Vince,

    10 Apr 13 17:19, you wrote to All:

    Two of these files are so huge that I only hatched them out to three
    people today..

    I will get them out to the other HUBs in the next few days or maybe
    tonight.

    The DOS file wasn't so big (4Meg), but the other two are 15Meg and
    23Meg.


    Having seen these anounced in allfix-file etc, most of them look old eg, rehatched files going back years!

    No, I don't think so.. I'll check on PKWare's site, but you many notice that Gert said PKWare sent him the latest versions. This is a different product than what was previously released as well, I believe.

    Please ask the sender not to do this.

    Yes, of course we don't want "old" versions re-packaged.. :)

    Another two points:
    I am noticing a lot of files coming through without the tag to delete old version of the same program/package, please ask all to start reusing this feature as it keeps the volume of the file base under some level of control.

    Sure, makes sense. I know I sometimes forget to hatch with replace. :(

    File Descriptions: Do not need the name of the file nor tons of junk characters
    eg, pretty ? boxes etc. While these may work on some BBS systems they screw up >on others including mine and as my bbs does not have a file description editor
    there is little I can do about it.

    I agree totally here. It's a real mess when descriptions come in here that are
    over 750 chars.. BBBS can't deal with those and it causes the file areas to get messed up, skipping file descriptions sometimes. I'm not sure what other bbs description limitations are, but they may be even smaller that BBBS's.

    Take care,
    Janis

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-1
    * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38)
  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.42 to Janis Kracht on Saturday, April 13, 2013 02:35:30

    File Descriptions: Do not need the name of the file nor tons of junk characters eg, pretty ? boxes etc. While these may work on some BBS
    systems they screw up on others including mine and as my bbs does not
    have a file description editor there is little I can do about it.

    I agree totally here. It's a real mess when descriptions come in
    here that are over 750 chars.. BBBS can't deal with those and it
    causes the file areas to get messed up, skipping file descriptions sometimes. I'm not sure what other bbs description limitations
    are, but they may be even smaller that BBBS's.

    AIUI, file_id.diz has a spec for line width and number of lines... the descriptions shouldn't be too far out of that... it is like 40 or 45 characters
    wide and some 10 or so lines long... anything more than that is "out of spec" and should be CHOMPED anyway... IMPO, of course ;)

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