On (08 Jun 95) Paul Edwards wrote to Keith Richardson...



 PE> I have deleted yak2 because I already had it, but next time anyone

 PE> sends me a file, could you send the file BEFORE the TIC file, so

 PE> that if the transmission aborts, I'm not left with a TIC file with

 PE> no attachment?  That's what happened, and the TIC file gets renamed

 PE> to BAD and not processed.  Perhaps most people don't have the

 PE> ability to specify the order in which files are sent, in which case,

 PE> STOP HANGING UP!!!  :-)  BFN.  Paul.



 KR> perhaps you should fix your dinosaur technology so that dupes are

 KR> checked for before the transfer just like the city. the order of the



 PE> ROFL.  You've pointed off the city before have you, and he managed

 PE> to set up Binkley to avoid dupes.  Amazing stuff this guy at the

 PE> city.  Corse there's always the chance that you're getting confused

 PE> between BBS and mailer technology.  If you download MINPOS2 or whatever

 PE> it's called now, you might be a bit more familiar with it.



nope afaik city doesn't do points. his message system is not what the

board is about. thats why i point off you for messages, and rely on him

(and internet) for files. when you upload a file to city, there is a

pause at the start of the zmodem transfer after you have sent the file

name, but before the xfer begins while the board checks for dupes. if it

is a dupe the xfer aborts. if you don't have the brains to work it out

for yourself, i suggest that you could ring john and ask him to explain

it to you. i think that the first suggestion would be not to use

binkley, but then, as you have the source code of bink, it shouldn't be

too hard for you to change it should it?



 KR> files was never specified by you, so it seemed logical to send the tic

 KR> first, there is no problem in reversing it - all you needed to do is

 KR> ask.



 PE> I didn't know before, but I do now.  I was quite surprised to see

 PE> the *.BAD in my inbound.  BFN.  Paul.



would putting the .tic file after the main file actually stop the sytem

from accepting it?



                        Keith



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