Hello Alan!

*** Tuesday 08.09.20 at 16:54, Alan Ianson wrote to Martin Foster:

 >>> 21:33:09  SYS Air Applewood BBS
 >>> 21:33:09  ZYZ Vincent Coen
 >>> 21:33:09  LOC Hatfield, Hertfordshire, U.K.
 >>> 21:33:09  NDL CM,XA,IBN,IFC,ITN

 >>> 09:37:20  SYS Phoenix BBS
 >>> 09:37:20  ZYZ Andrew Leary
 >>> 09:37:20  LOC Pawcatuck, CT
 >>> 09:37:20  NDL IBN,IFC,ITN:60177,XX,CM

 AI> I just did a request for "files" from both of the above nodes and in both
 AI> cases I got the expected file for those requests.

 >>> 21:12:55  SYS Dragon's Claw FTN HUB
 >>> 21:12:55  ZYZ Stephen Walsh
 >>> 21:12:55  LOC Melbourne, Australia
 >>> 21:12:55  NDL IBN,IFC,ITN,XX,CM

 AI> I requested files from this node also and got a reply that the requested
 AI> file was not found. I suspect that file requests are not configured by
 AI> this node.

 >> Ah yes, the issue that never got resolved was the one where OpenXP would
 >> just sit there waiting for something to happen after sending a .REQ

 >> OpenXP just sits there until either the session times out after 2 minutes
 >> or the user manually aborts the session before the session times out.

 >> We never did figure out whether the culprit was OpenXP or whether it was
 >> MBSE.

 AI> I was using MBSE when I made my request and it worked as expected for me.
 AI> There must be something not quite right somewhere but I don't know what
 AI> it is.

Casting my mind back to when we were trying to figure all this out, I  
recall that WinPoint had no problems with the problematic(to OpenXP) MBSE  
systems.

 AI> Might have to ask the sysop to check the log for a failed request and see
 AI> if there is anything in there that would shed a little light on it.

Yes but I don't have time to re-visit this issue at the moment as I'm  
immersed in another Fido project right now ;))

Regards,
Martin

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