G'day Bill,



On 06-01-80 09:49, Bill Grimsley said to Jeff Green



JG>> I've tried it from the 'outbound', the 'inbound', and any 

JG>> other directory that I can think of. I've tried from other 

JG>> drives and other partitions. I've tried to file attach it to 

JG>> Anthony. I've tried to just send it to TML without any 

JG>> message attached. I've tried to file attach it to Paul.



 BG> Fucking hell, there's not much left then, is there?



No :-(



 BG> Yet it transfers any size mail packet OK!



Seems to (see below though). I just sent another one that was over the 8192
bytes mark, so I don't see how it could be the modems not talking
correctly.



I even tried sticking the file in a message packet once :-)



As the message packet is just a zip file I added it to the message file in
the normal manner eg 'zip -u 00000000.mo0  kwq12i.exe'. It added in without
a hitch. The transfer died with the usual message.



 BG> AFA your modem is concerned, it's just another file, so

 BG> the problem is with Bink IMO.  What version again, 2.50

 BG> wasn't it? 



2.56 (with 'error' or 'transfer cancelled') and 2.50 (with 'transfer
cancelled'). The transfer cancelled on the 2.56 version occured the other
day.



 BG> Have you tried either 2.50 EE or 2.59 yet?  It can't be

 BG> your file system either, as I run all HPFS here without any

 BG> problems at all.



Yeah, I'll try those versions soon.



 BG> Tell me, when you do an Alt-S, does a filename like 0C450S23.FLO 

 BG> (ignore the prefix, it's just an algorithm-derived filename of 

 BG> some sort, and yours will be totally different) appear in your 

 BG> \outbound directory?  Its contents are similar to this...



 BG> #\point\outbound\00000000.su1

 BG> ;SEND generated by node 3:640/305.9{at}fidonet using BinkleyTerm-OS/2 Ver. 2.5 

 BG> \POINT\TEST.ZIP



Alomst...the third line on mine always (I think) has a drive designation in
it ie E:\point\test.zip. So does the message packet though. I'll try taking
them out of the paths in the config file and see what that does. I don't
hold out much hope, but at the moment I'll try nearly anything.



 BG> If there was no mail packet to be sent at the same time, I think 

 BG> the first line would not appear.



Yeah, that's right.



JG>> I give up.



 BG> I wouldn't.  It's stuff like this which really gets the juices 

 BG> flowing.  Don't you love a challenge?  |-)



About two hours after I said that, I tried again :-) I'd thought of
something else to try. It brought on the 'transfer cancelled' message
instead of the 'error' message using 2.56. I don't know if thats good or
bad though :-)



Regards...Jeff (jeff{at}grntrs.dialix.oz.au)


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