Thank you for the explanation. As it turns out, compressing the file enough
to make it acceptable to the newsgroup pretty much ruins it, so I'm going to
try to set up a link on the web instead.
Steve Shelby

"Edward Coffey" <eco### [at] swiftdslcomau> wrote in message
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> Steve Shelby wrote:
> ...
> > But my file is only 876 kb, and I looked at other posts and there are
many
> > which ar larger than that. What could be wrong?
>
> I think the problem is the encoding of news messages. If I recall
> correctly news posts are encoded using uuencoding, which uses only the
> lowest 7 bits of each byte, wasting 1/8 of the space it consumes. That
> would make your post at-least 1025171 bytes.

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