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|    mark lewis to Bj”rn Felten    |
|    Repairing a JAM message base, please    |
|    11 Sep 15 12:27:32    |
      11 Sep 15 15:12, you wrote to Tommi Koivula:               TK>> "A News (NNTP) error occurred: Posting failed (message too long,        TK>> maximum size 20000 bytes"               BF> Ah yes, no wonder. In old style DOS programs there's usually a 2^16-10        BF> byte limit unless you take special precautions.               BF> But I (and Matt too if I'm not mistaken) was talking about a JAM base        BF> with more than 2^14 messages.              that should not be a problem... JAM bases have very large limits... indexes       and counters are all unsigned 32bit values, aka ulong...              http://defsol.com/news/jammbp-the-joaquim-andrew-mats-message-base-proposal/              )\/(ark              ... I'm too sexy for this echo!       ---        * Origin: (1:3634/12.73)    |
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