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echo: meadow
to: TREV ROYDHOUSE
from: JOHN GIANNINI
date: 1997-05-04 02:07:00
subject: Misc questions

Trev -
Did you get my (somewhat lengthly but detailed) message on the bug with Opus 
of it allowing downloads of *any* file on a BBS as long as a caller lists it 
as file 2, 3, or 4, on a batch file line?  I didn't hear anything.
A couple of quick questions.  My copy of Opus says "Test Copy: Not for 
Distribution" when I run it, in the "log" section of my screen.  Do I have 
the right version?  It lists itself as 1.79.x
Does Opus "understand" baud rates like 24000, 26400, 28800, or 33600 yet? 
Tonight when someone logged in at 24000, 1.79 did what 1.73 always does - 
when a caller went out to run Bluewave and download a packet, Bluewave 
estimated the packet download time as if the caller was at 2400, not 24000.  
Of course, the actual download time was however long the download at 24000 
should have been.  But the screen told the caller, in it's estimate of time, 
the time it would have taken to d/l the packet at 2400.  In 1.73, this is 
because Opus "passed" Bluewave the erroneous 2400 as a baud rate.  Based on 
the fact 1.79 does the same thing, I take it it Opus doesn't know about the 
above four listed baud rates.  Can you confirm or deny this?
Finally, when I connected with my local NEC a few minutes ago, at 33.6, I got 
some weird stuff in my log.  Here is part of that log:
=== Cut ===
+ 04 May  1:31:52 OPUS Begin, 970504  v1.79.x, Task=0
: 04 May  1:31:55 OPUS Calling 1:119/88 Madman Bbs (893-8079)
# 04 May  1:32:16 OPUS Connect 33600/Arq/V34/Lapm/V42bis
* 04 May  1:32:39 OPUS Madman BBS (1:119/88.0)
(snip)
# 04 May  1:32:40 OPUS Receiving M:\Mail\Hold\00000026.Su0
= 04 May  1:32:46 OPUS UL-Z M:\Mail\Hold\00000026.Su0 19610
: 04 May  1:32:46 OPUS Throughput = 32683 bps (10894%)
* 04 May  1:32:46 OPUS Connect: 0:30 (1:119/88.0)  Cost $332.37
Check out the percentage figure in parens above.  10894%?  And look at
what Opus estimated the cost of the call should have been!  $332.37.  Is my 
config wrong, or is it that Opus is not "understanding" the 33600 connect 
speed?
And then this, which followed the above lines I already quoted --
! 04 May  1:32:46 OPUS LANGERR: Can't find RY.USL
: No such file or directory
! 04 May  1:32:46 OPUS LANGERR: Can't find RY.USL
: No such file or directory
! 04 May  1:32:46 OPUS Can't increase Ä^(garbage here)
  DAY: No such file or directory
: 04 May  1:32:46 OPUS End (2)
What does the above mean?  What USL does Opus want?
Well, if you could help me out on these points, I would sure appreciate it.
I also read O179FEAT.TXT - I see that file tagging is not implimented in 
1.79. Can you let me know what the plans are for that feature in the future?  
Well, thanks for your patience and help, and I am sorry to be such a 
bother...  :(
--- GoldED 2.50
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