Question about multiple pages, split-chars and the use of headers and/or
footers.

While I currently have the system setup like I would assume most do, where
you have various services setup to deal with each request, I'm leaning in
the direction of setting up just a general catch of all inbound messages
and queuing them.  Then having a separate process come along and process
each one as it was queue and using sendsms to push out the replies (if
any).

This means that I will pretty much know before the reply message is sent,
the size of a message and could then format messages accordingly so that
the message has a header or footer indicating it is related to the rest of
the message if it is larger than one page.

I've seen a company that provides a voice mail to transcription service do
something like this where each "page" had a header on it indicating that
it was part of a group of messages.  Their messages end up looking like:

((1 of 3) from Phone number
Message...

((2 of 3) from Phone number continued msg:
Continuation of message

((3 of 3) from Phone number continued msg:
last of message

I think I can generate the top of each page section, but I'm not sure how
the split-chars part works.

-- 
Kevin


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