On Wed, 24 Apr 91 16:35:38 +0200 you said: >I'd say it depends on the size of the file. If the gateway imposes an >unreasonably low limit, like 20k, complain to the maintainer. If on the >other hand the archive file is really too large even for normal BITNET >users, complain to the list owner and suggest he split it into smaller >files. In any case, you can use the database functions to retrieve parts >of the archive files. As I'm sure we have discussed before in the context of my local commands in support of the Info-Mac archives, the problem with this approach is varying needs of the intended audience. The most common gateway limit seems to be 100K, with 200K and 64K distant seconds. One gateway even has a 32K limit which is dictated by the architecture of the systems behind it (Applelink, which deals in 32K "text-edit buffers"). Even if I could get all of the gateway owners to agree on 100K or more, splitting up the files in the archive into 100K chunks would make a lot of reassembly work for users not behind gateways, or not using email for retrieval at all. This is the argument the main Info-Mac moderator has used against splitting the original files (since his clientel is exclusively via FTP). Sorry to beat a dead horse. --Mark