On (10 Jun 95) Paul Edwards wrote to Keith Richardson...



 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.



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



 PE> IOW he has exactly the same technology that I do.  If a sysop

 PE> crashes a file to him that he already has, he doesn't have any

 PE> protection against it.



in that case, how does it still work when i do an iemsi connect to him?



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

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



 PE> Explain how to stop points from sending dupes?



how about the notion of breaking into the zmodem state machine at the

point where the file name has been received, and

 

        a) check for a mail transfer. procede at once if it is.

        b) if not, spawn a child process to scan the filebase, and abort

           the transfer if the file exists.



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

 KR> binkley, 



 PE> So what's he got that does FTS-1 and FTS-4 under OS/2 32-bit and

 PE> doesn't cost me anything and comes with source? 



i have no idea whether frodo/remoteaccess meet those specificatins or

not.



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

 KR> too hard for you to change it should it?



 PE> I can give you the source code in about 3 minutes.  If it's not too

 PE> hard to change (your assertion) then please FREQ BTPE302.ZIP and 

 PE> send me the diffs so that I can apply them to BTPE303.ZIP.  Thanks

 PE> for your cooperation.



you are the boy genius of bink fudging, i dont have the motivation, it

makes little difference to me whether a transfer aborts before or after,

but i'd think that your std connected points would prefer an abort

sooner rather than later.



                        Keith



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