MaxPKT 2.5 by Mat Bettinson of the Plot Hatching Factory.

Xenolink and some other tossers, have an annoying habit of creating a great
deal of outgoing packets for a single system feed. 

IE: 

2.254.524.0.FLO
2.254.524.0.DUT
2.254.524.0.MO0
2.254.524.0.MO1
2.254.524.0.TU0
2.254.524.0.TU1
etc etc etc... 

There is NO NEED for that at all AFAICS and it just annoys in the amount of
files in your outbound which on large mail feed systems can get
ridiculous. It also adds to the transfer time since Zmodem has a certain
overhead per file meaning those tiny 300 byte packets take as long as a 10K
would have otherwise if they were the same packet.

Enter MaxPKT. It scans your outbound and attempts to create a single
outgoing ECHO MAIL packet for each system. It works quite quickly (since it
was originally going to extract then add with LHA I wrote it to be fairly
intelligent so it does the least work needed) and on consequetive executions
it won't take very long to decide it isn't needed so adding to INBOUNDMAIL
is a real possibility and/or Cron execution. 

Usage is basic:

[rx] MaxPKT2 <outbound dir>

Outbound dir isn't even needed if you alter the header of the script to give
it a default value. The command line overrides the default value if you
need to.... 

New for 2.5: MaxPKT now knows to ignore packets that aren't LHA archives. 
             bit silly to miss that... Oops!

OK that's about it... I don't think I'll be doing much more work on the
Xenolink platform but maybe the odd script will come by. I'll probably
complete my Dopus file-cat utility before I stop development for it totally
but I hope to make some more general utils for all BBS platforms like this.

"There's a new outlaw in town and this guy is stronger, meaner and faster than
the lil' old Sherrif..."

Be well and Merry Christmas to you all. 

Mat Bettinson (E-Mail mat@darkside.demon.co.uk, Fido: 2:254/205.0)

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