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|    Martin Foster to August Abolins    |
|    OpenXP noob questions    |
|    06 Apr 19 14:43:00    |
      MSGID: 2:310/31.3@fidonet d729a641       REPLY: 2:221/1.58@fidonet d7200e2c       PID: OpenXP/5.0.37 (Linux) (x86_64)       CHRS: ASCII 1       Hello August!              On 05.04.19 at 21:11, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:               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.               AA> The logs only record .PKT filenames.              That indicates that your uplink does not send compressed mail bundles        and that your Download Unpacker setting is correct.              [snip]        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.               AA> There are no tick marks. It is just a list of archivers and their        AA> "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??,               AA> But why didn't my renamed file NODELIST.ZIP to NODELIST.Z95 work? Is it        AA> because I didn't have a valid archiver available?              Yes, precisely.               AA> I found a working unzip.exe here:               AA> C:\SWTOOLS\APPS\wc301-219f ..and will copy that to the /OPENXP dir.              Has this resolved the issue?               AA> Thanks for pointing out the various issues.              Pleased to have been of assistance :)              Regards,       Martin              --- OpenXP 5.0.37        * Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:310/31.3)       SEEN-BY: 15/2 123/1970 154/10 203/0 221/0 226/17 229/107 354 426 1014       SEEN-BY: 240/5832 249/206 317 400 280/464 5003 292/854 310/31 317/3       SEEN-BY: 322/757 342/200 393/68 396/45 423/120 712/848 770/1 2452/250       PATH: 310/31 280/464 229/426           |
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