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|    August Abolins to Martin Foster    |
|    oxp: nodediff fails :(    |
|    14 Feb 20 20:59:55    |
      MSGID: 2:221/360.0 5e46ee26       REPLY: 2:310/31.3@fidonet e168432c       PID: JamNNTPd/OS2 1.3 20191227       TID: GE/2 1.2       CHRS: UTF-8 2       TZUTC: 0200       Hello Martin!              On 14/02/2020 7:04 a.m., Martin Foster : August Abolins wrote:               AA>>I hate to be the bearer of bad news,.. but right after        AA>>NODEDIFF.Z45 arrived, it locked up, again!               MF>FFS :-(((((((((((( Sorry, just had to say that.               ^^^       Another new brit term for me. We use WTF here. ;)                      MF>In all my years(26 of them) of using OpenXP, FreeXP, XP2 and        MF>CrossPoint, I've never ever come across anything quite like this        MF>before - Hmph!              Yes.. I seem to have this effect on people and things.                      AA> SEE? So.. the .TIC file in /FILES *could* be a problem.        AA> Maybe the system is trying to create "Area NODEDIFZ" and is failing?        AA> Bug?               MF>All I can suggest you do is to disable it and see what happens        MF>next Friday. I have it disabled, so I'll enable it and see what        MF>happens here next Friday.              Another week of s u s p e n c e !              BTW.. The pointdiff arrived a littler later, and processed fine (as it       always has), but this time I forgot to keep the .TIC processing enabled.              I am pretty sure that I have *always* had the tic proccessing enabled,       but the lockups were only happening with the main nodelist.                            --        Quoted with Reformator/Quoter. Info = https://tinyurl.com/sxnhuxc              --- TB68.4.1/Win7 (the abbr. string!)        * Origin: nntp://rbb.fidonet.fi - Lake Ylo - Finland (2:221/360.0)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 19/10 90/1 154/10 203/0 221/0 1 6 360 227/114 229/426       SEEN-BY: 229/1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400 280/464 5003 288/100 292/854       SEEN-BY: 310/31 317/3 322/757 342/200 396/45 423/81 120 712/848 770/1       SEEN-BY: 2452/250       PATH: 221/360 1 280/464 229/426           |
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