Subj : Packet splitter To : Steve Quarrella From : Marc Lewis Date : Thu Jan 25 2001 07:05 pm Hello Steve. SQ> I've got a 4 MEG compressed bundle full of packets, and I'd like to SQ> break it up into disk-sized chunks. Anybody know of a good utility SQ> to do this? If worse comes to worse, I'll make a few copies and SQ> use something like InspectA to remove the packets inside of the SQ> copies, but that's -work.- :-) Here's what you need: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-CUT-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ~~ PSRT_14.ZIP 269,266 04-26-94 PacketSorter v1.4 bug fixes & new features FidoNet inbound packet processor defragments packets, speeds up tossing on SQUISH and JAM: PacketSorter is a utility for defragmenting, splitting, unsplitting, cleaning and sorting inbound FidoNet (FTS-0001) message packets. It has been developed in the first place because the time the echomail tosser Squish needs to toss messsages into the messagebase heavily depends on the fragmentation level of the packets received. The packets you receive from your links are usually not sorted in any order. PacketSorter groups the messages contained in the packets by their area tag. On my system the packets defragmented with PacketSorter are tossed by Squish up to 5 times faster than the original packets. The performance gain you will notice depends on the tosser you use, the messagebase you use and the performance of your disk subsystem. People using a Hudson-style messagebase or a hardware cache controller for the harddisk may notice no performance gain at all. PacketSorter is not limited to be used only with Squish. You may use PacketSorter with any other echomail processor. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-CUT-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Best regards, Marc --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+ * Origin: Sursum Corda! BBS New Orleans 1-504-897-6006 USR33k6 (1:396/45) .