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I have read with interest the problems associated with OASIS II as I have
experienced several myself which make this potentialy excellent program totally
useless, can anyone help with the following?

1) BAD Packet errors:- these occur when downloading news, I have tried all three
settings of packet size, and also SLIP instead of PPP but errors still happen.

2) FTP:- this has worked only once, when it did it showed how powerful the new
setup is, but now it seems to just hang and do nothing when selected.

3) News date:- is there any way of getting O2 to get news older than today?
there is no date file as in OASIS 1.35

4) Those screen redraws!!

5) UUencode UUdecode does not work properly:- news downloaded in O2 gave
corrupted file whereas the same news from O1.35 decoded correctly by extracting
then using UUdecode from DEMONs FTP site. This may have something to do with 
all the bad packets of course.

6) news articles loaded twice:- many news articles were duplicated even thought
they had allready been downloaded.

7) How long before functions are disabled on an un-registered O2? how many of  
these functions really work anyway as stated in the manual? I seem to have a lot
of the functions reported as unavailable allready and I havent even been able to
use O2 reliably yet, this seems a little harsh to expect registration of such a
crippled program.

8) If some of these problems have been allready fixed. where is the latest
version? or do you have to register? I would like to try a more stable version
first before deciding.

9) Will SPIDER ever see the light of day? judging by the amount of work allready
done on CAB is there any posiblity of overlaying OASIS and CAB as they did with
CAB and STIK? just a thought.

Anyway, I understand the problems that the programmers of O2 are facing and 
applaud their swiftness in fixing the reported faults, O2 looks an excellent
program and I will gladly reach for that 30 pounds once I can perform the same
functions as OASIS 1.35 reliably enough to use it.                

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