Jeff, at 13:42 on Wed, Feb 15 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley ...

JG> Tried Bink 2.50. Same shit. I'm really beginning to think it's 
JG> something in my modem setup. I've been through the manual and 
JG> checked everything and it all looks ok. It's frustrating! It'll 
JG> also be something so simple that I overlooked it :-(

AFA your modem is concerned, it shouldn't notice any difference between
transferring compressed email or archived program files, therefore I'd
reasonably expect your problem to be somewhere in the binkley setup.

JG> There was only one difference that I could see. Bink 2.56 ends on 
JG> my system with 'error'. Bink 2.50 ends with 'transfer cancelled'.

Could be significant.  Mine only ever says "transfer cancelled"
if I manually abort the file transfer.  Otherwise, I start seeing ZedZap
block resends before it finally aborts after (I think) 10 failed attempts
at resending the same block.

JG> I'm sure it's my modem setup. I'll have another look and then start 
JG> doing radical things. 

Famous last words, I know, but I very much doubt it's your modem.

JG> Who knows what'll work with this piece of Netcomm shit.

Well, that's another problem entirely, but I really doubt it's particularly
relevant to your current problem.  |-)

JG> The funny thing is, I sent a mail packet to TML the other night 
JG> that was over 8192 bytes. It worked! If this problem was consistent 
JG> it should have died :-(

Yep, and the fact that your email transfers work fine would tend to
eliminate the modem as the cause.  You could try physically moving the file
to be uploaded to your \OUTBOUND directory first, and edit binkey.cfg
accordingly.  As your mail is currently sent successfully from this
directory, I simply can't see why any other file shouldn't upload
satisfactorily as well.

Also, if the file to be sent already resides in your specified upload
directory, there should be no need to enter the full path information at
the Binkley Alt-S prompt.  If this works (and I fully expect it to), stop
worrying and simply make it the default.  |-)

Regards, Bill

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