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to: Bill Grimsley
from: Frank Malcolm
date: 1996-05-11 09:39:52
subject: Abortions

Hi, Bill.

BG> Frank, at 09:11 on May 05 1996, you wrote to Paul Edwards...

BG> FM> Several times recently, including a couple of minutes ago (9:02am
BG> Sunday
BG> FM> 5/5 according to my clock) my connect to you has aborted in the early
BG> FM> stages, I think during the packet upload. Telix says "Transfer
BG> aborted".

BG> Same here.  The last line of this log extract tells me what happened, and I
BG> suspect the same thing was happening with you as well, but Telix's logs are
BG> less than satisfactory for debugging purposes.

Useless for almost any purpose, I would have said. :-(

BG> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
BG> + 05 May 15:09:41 BINK begin, BinkleyTerm-OS/2 Ver. 2.59 -IBMC/2
BG> : 05 May 15:09:46 BINK Entering POLL Mode
BG> * 05 May 15:09:48 BINK Processing node 3:711/934{at}fidonet -- Ten Minute
BG> Limit
BG> : 05 May 15:09:48 BINK Dialing 02-436-1785
BG> # 05 May 15:10:11 BINK Connect 26400/Arq/V34/Lapm/V42Bis
BG> * 05 May 15:10:15 BINK Ten Minute Limit (3:711/934{at}fidonet)
BG> : 05 May 15:10:15 BINK Aka: 69:1171/213{at}fidonet
BG> * 05 May 15:10:15 BINK Remote Uses BinkleyTerm PE 4.00
BG> : 05 May 15:10:15 BINK SysOp: Paul Edwards from Somewhere
BG> : 05 May 15:10:15 BINK Tranx: 318CC4D6 / 318CC3DC
BG> * 05 May 15:10:15 BINK Password-protected session
BG> : 05 May 15:10:15 BINK Session method: ZedZap
BG> + 05 May 15:10:17 BINK CPS: 1704 (3408 bytes)  Efficiency: 64%
BG> + 05 May 15:10:17 BINK Sent-Z/32 \point\outbound\ffb9fd8b.su1
BG>   05 May 15:10:17 BINK File \point\outbound\ffb9fd8b.su1 truncated
BG> ! 05 May 15:10:18 BINK Zmodem Init Problem Lost Carrier
BG> --------------------------------------------------------------------

That looks like it actually sent the upload, then lost carrier. I
*think* mine didn't even send the upload.

BG> Dunno exactly what it means, but the short answer is that it almost
BG> certainly wasn't your fault (what a surprise!).  :)

:-)

Regards, fIM.

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