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   Message 673 of 3,070   
   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   
      
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