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to: Andrew Leary
from: Michiel van der Vlist
date: 2007-12-05 00:27:50
subject: Strange error

Hello Andrew,

On Monday December 03 2007 21:03, you wrote to Timothy Cornett:

 AL> What I used to have to do was pick up the packets from Janis with
 AL> BinkD. After that was done, IRex would start to work ok again

That makes sense. Apparently there is some sort of incompatibility problem
bewteen BinkD and Irex. BinkD insists on sending the file and Irex refuses
it because it has already got (part of?) it.

If the file is removed form the sender's que. Either manually by the sysop
of the sending system or by the receiver by downloading it with BinkP the
problem is solved.

 AL>  until the problem resurfaced.

Until another file gets corrupted in transfer or until the sender want to
send a file with the same name as the previous file causing the problem.

Now that we know where the problem files end up, it is relatively easy to
solve. Just clear the subdirectories of the hold directory. One could even
do that in a batch file that starts Irex. Just like some people clear out
the *.0 semphores in the sema directory when starting Irex.

Cheers, Michiel

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