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[LC Bruzenak]

On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 15:14 -0500, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 January 2009 12:44:27 pm LC Bruzenak wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 12:15 -0500, Steve Grubb wrote:
> ...
> 
> > I'm trying to avoid a lot of retry logic on the sending side, where if a
> > failure occurs, we would truncate and resend until it passes. I guess if
> > I were certain that 7K is always going to fit I could artificially clamp
> > my own input there, but it seems better if it were universally constant.
> 
> For the time being, you'll need to clamp your input to maybe about 950 chars. 
> In all the work I've done patching everything, I've never needed to send more 
> than 200 bytes or so. 
> 

That's because maybe you have never worked on a MLS system where all
cross-level cut/paste transfers were required to be audited in toto.
:)

I'll have to put in some retry logic on my end. Probably would
regardless.

LCB.

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LC (Lenny) Bruzenak
lenny at magitekltd.com