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Abreviating the KA9Q sending mail display

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From: Mark Rogers
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 00:00
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Since I run a mailing list, I regularly have a rather long To: line (or, 
more accurately, rather a lot of lines in the .WRK file). When KA9Q sends 
this mail, it reports all of the addresses, which is rather pointless.

Personally, I'd prefer to see KA9Q limit itself to (say) 2 lines, and 
just stick "..." on the end if the limit is exceeded. How would others 
feel?

It ought to be pretty easy to do; unfortunately I have never convinced 
KA9Q to compile and run here, so I can't do it myself. If anyone has it 
working under TC3.1 I'd love to hear from them....

Incidentally, there also ought not be any reason to load the whole .WRK 
file into memory, which I suspect KA9Q does at present. This may be 
harder to change, but would bring benefits in terms of memory 
requirements. KA9Q only needs the first three lines to check that the 
.WRK file is valid, and after that can just keep reading the lines as it 
sends them. Or would the extra open file waste more memory than was saved 
in general? 

Mark.
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From: Mark Rogers <mcr@holly.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Abreviating the KA9Q sending mail display
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