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|    August Abolins to Martin Foster    |
|    OpenXP noob questions    |
|    05 Apr 19 21:11:00    |
      MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet d7200e2c       REPLY: 2:240/2188.31@fidonet d721a329       PID: OpenXP/5.0.36 (Win32)       CHRS: ASCII 1       Hello Martin!              ** 05.04.19 - 13:57, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:              MF>>> ...have a look in the "Netcall"       MF>>> area where you'll find all your session logs.              MF> ... It would be better to look back through your session logs       MF> for occurences of *.SU?, *.MO?, *.TU? etc. etc. These are compressed       MF> mail bundle extensions.              The logs only record .PKT filenames.                     MF> This is the one that's bugging me.              AA>> 31.03.19 14:02:55 Empty timing list.              Yeah.. that was not long ago. Let me know what that means when you find        out.                     AA>> 31.03.19 22:28:30 2:221/1: incomplete packer settings - please check       AA>> server config       AA>> 31.03.19 22:37:28 2:221/1: incomplete packer settings - please check       AA>> server config       AA>> 02.04.19 12:26:28 2:221/1: incomplete packer settings - please check       AA>> server config       AA>> 02.04.19 12:27:58 2:221/1: incomplete packer settings - please check       AA>> server config              MF> Cropping up repeatedly so there's obviously an unsolved problem.              I think those were related to my nodelist build attempts (?)                     AA>> 02.04.19 21:33:48 Can't talk to the device!              MF> Never seen that one before.              Maybe I didn't have a solid internet connection when I launched a poll.                     MF> Check this out .....       MF> Config/External/Unpacker              MF> Do you see a "tick" mark at the right-hand end of the ZIP entry. If       MF> you don't, that's one possible reason why you're getting the "File       MF> incorrectly unpacked" error. The unpacker(s) that you wish to use       MF> should either be on your path or in OpenXP's root directory.              There are no tick marks. It is just a list of archivers and their        "arguments" ...and an F2 option to change things.                            MF> I noticed in the logfile that you posted, that the filename of the       MF> nodelist was NODELIST.ZIP but OpenXP expects nodelist filenames to be       MF> in the form NODELIST.Z??,              But why didn't my renamed file NODELIST.ZIP to NODELIST.Z95 work? Is it        because I didn't have a valid archiver available?              I found a working unzip.exe here:              C:\SWTOOLS\APPS\wc301-219f ..and will copy that to the /OPENXP dir.                     Thanks for pointing out the various issues.                     Regards,        ../|ug              --- OpenXP 5.0.36        * Origin: /|ug's Point, ONT, CANADA (2:221/1.58)       SEEN-BY: 15/2 123/1970 154/10 203/0 221/1 6 360 226/17 229/107 354       SEEN-BY: 229/426 1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400 280/464 5003 292/854       SEEN-BY: 310/31 317/3 322/757 342/200 393/68 396/45 423/120 712/848       SEEN-BY: 770/1 2452/250       PATH: 221/1 280/464 229/426           |
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