RE: Segmentation

[ksteel@xxxxxxxxxxx]

>Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 13:24:02 -0500
>From: boblyons@unidex.com (Robert C. Lyons)

>ISSUE - SEGEMENTATION - Is there a requirement for segmentation, where the
>sender's system breaks up a large EDI interchange into a series of small
>messages and the recipient's system recombines the small messages?
>Apparently, some Internet e-mail systems have a maximum message size limit
>of 50KB. PGP provides segmentation. So does Premenos's Templar product.

I would like to suggest this is also a side-issue. These email restrictions
are usually a result of the editing/user interface, software. They are
not normally a restriction with the sendmail program which would be
used by edi.

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Ken Steel
The University of Melbourne
Department of Computer Science
ksteel@cs.mu.oz.au