[Info-vax] size of records in MAIL

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <09d47701-1715-4491-858c-e28252a93e66 at googlegroups.com>,
abrsvc <dansabrservices at yahoo.com> writes: 

> On Sunday, November 13, 2016 at 9:45:11 AM UTC-5, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> > What is the record size used by MAIL> DIR/FULL and why?
> 
> The max record length of a record is 2048 and IRRC, the records either
> contains a short message or a pointer to a mail message file.  I would
> need to look up the source to get the reasoning behind this as well as
> the specific formats. 
> 
> What are you after here?

I just want to be able to quickly calculate the size of an EXTRACTed 
file from the number of records.