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From: haugj@pigs.UUCP (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Submitting files
Summary: avoid mailing huge files ...
Message-ID: <431@pigs.UUCP>
Date: 23 Sep 88 15:46:31 GMT
References: <6861@uwmcsd1.UUCP>
Reply-To: haugj@pigs.UUCP (John F. Haugh II)
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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.
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