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 In article <833141704_OASIS_@bahai.demon.co.uk>
  Terry@bahai.demon.co.uk () wrote:-

>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.

This is the one big bug that is killing Dave, he has coded to the RFC's 
pricicely, but can;t figure out why this one is generated.

>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.

Dave is completely recoding ftp completely now.

>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

When in the newsgroup listing select the group you want to modify and hit ALT 
G to edit newsgroups. You can alter the times in there.

>4) Those screen redraws!!

Fixed ready for 2.02.

>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.

It must be, the latest UU_Coder is superb.

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

Can happen if running under Magic and Oasis/Ice crashes whilst ubnbatching.

>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.

No features are crippled actively.

>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.

The 2.02 upgrade will be out when Dave has completed the ftp code.


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