Subj : TIC File Tossing by sbbsecho
To   : Chad Adams
From : Rampage
Date : Fri Jul 05 2024 07:32 am

  Re: TIC File Tossing by sbbsecho
  By: Chad Adams to digital man on Thu Jul 04 2024 03:31:28

 > I was wondering if you could answer a quick question about your
 > tosser.

sbbsecho is for mail, not files... tickit comes with sbbs and handles
tossing of files in FDNs... deuce wrote it and i modified it to work
for file distribution hubs... it was originally written mostly for
leaf systems...

 > When you toss a tic file to multiple downlinks, do you just copy
 > 1 copy of the file to toss to the outbound dir OR do you simply
 > transfer it from the file area path and not copy it when the TIC
 > file is created?

when a tic arrives, it is processed and the accompanying file is
placed into the designated file directory... if it is to be sent on
to other systems, the file, itself, is sent from the file
directory... this avoids copying it and having to decide when to
delete it if it is to be sent to multiple systems... the .tic files,
on the other hand, are created in and sent from the outbound
directory...

here's a log file snip showing my mailer sending pkts, tic, and file...

+ 05 Jul 03:28:04 [9182] sent: /sbbs/ftn/out/fidonet/66879bd6.pkt
 (1544, 1544.00 CPS, 1:xxx/xxx@fidonet)
+ 05 Jul 03:28:04 [9182] sent: /sbbs/ftn/out/fidonet/66879f31.pkt
 (10023, 10023.00 CPS, 1:xxx/xxx@fidonet)
+ 05 Jul 03:28:08 [9182] sending /sbbs/ftn/out/fidonet/ti_01va3.tic as
 ti_01va3.tic (672)
+ 05 Jul 03:28:09 [9182] sent: /sbbs/data/dirs/fdist-nasa/ap240705.zip
 (2795945, 559189.00 CPS, 1:xxx/xxx@fidonet)
+ 05 Jul 03:28:09 [9182] sent: /sbbs/ftn/out/fidonet/ti_01va3.tic
 (672, 672.00 CPS, 1:xxx/xxx@fidonet)

you can easily see the file ap240705.zip is sent from my NASA FDN
directory...


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