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 In article <831949790_OASIS_NEWS@mistral.co.uk>
  dickie@mistral.co.uk (richard thomas) wrote:-

>So I have got Oasis2 safely from cnam.fr, and have got it up and running...
>well sort of. It looks like it is going to be very good , but here are my
>first few problem reports with the usual disclaimer that its probably my
>fault for not reading the instructions properly.

        Don't worry about it. A new package of the complexity of OASIS2/ICE
will always take a little time to get used to.
 
>1) I dont have a host name, Im simply dickie@mistral.co.uk. I soon
>discovered that if I leave the host line blank, news does not send. My
>temporary solution is to give "mistral" as the entry in the host line and
>"co.uk" as the entry for domain. Now the news seems to send OK. it does not
>seem to be an ideal way of going about things though. 

        Odd this as one of our beta testers was using dial.pipex.com and
didn't suffer any problems. I'm unsure of how the host name could affect
news sending as the NNTP routine doesn't care as long as there is a
NEWS????.OUT file it will send it.

>2) Under nos_pop3 and Oasis135, my mail simply arrived im my mailbox without 
>problem. When I send test posts to myself with oasis 2 it says "mail for
>unknown user"  when I retrieve it using pop3,and then I have to take the
>given option to file it. This is a hassle, and I cant seem to work out why
>this happens.

        Ah this is very simple to cure. In the POP3 database dialog in ICE
enter at the bottom dickie@mistral.co.uk. When you logon to POP3 the
username & password doesn't have to use the username that you send mail to.
Because SMTP tells you who the mail is for before sending it ICE outputs the
RCPT TO <username@host.domain> line at the start of the email. OASIS now
knows which postbox to put it in. With POP3 the RCPT line doesn't arrive so
ICE generates one and uses the mailbox line of the database as the
<username.host.domain>. If the mailbox is called Dickie ( ie the user ) then
it will file it correctly for you without asking.

>3) On my Falcon the screens seem to blank when I select windows sometimes.
>Clicking in the window seems to restore the text. I remember a lot of
>problems in the earlier Oasis with funny screen stuff. Is this more of the
>same for Early Oasis2?

        Ahhhhhggggggg! window redraws. The bane of our lives. When OASIS2
and ICE were underway the problem of redraws raised it's head. The Gem
message system reports a redraw if you change the size, position, title,
slider bars and which is top. Under MagiC you get redraws for being on top
and being clicked on. OASIS2 ended up at one point drawing each window upto
5 times. We cured this by putting in a flag to say that this window has been
redrawn so ignore the message. But we can then ignore the redraw even if the
message was valid. Phil has spent this afternoon trying every combination
possible to see that they all work. We definately don't want 5 redraws of
every window but then again we don't want any corruption. Ahhhhhhhgggggg!
   
>4) When I log on the viewer always pops up saying bad checksum IP
>and I seem to be getting varios checksum reports going on, but nevertheless
>it seems to be getting here. It all looks a bit frantic though.

        If you don't want the messages to appear in the viewer then turn
GENERAL to OFF or FILE in ICE_NET under Log Files.
 
>5) I tried ftp on hensa, and discovered that if I click on the left hand
>closer of the ftp directory screen, it disappears, and I cant seem to get it
>to come back even though ftp is still active. "Show ftp" only brings up
>another ftp log on screen. Also on the ftp directory window there were no
>file dates as there are in mgftp for instance, those dates are useful to see
>directories which have recently been updated, I have found.

        Part one of this is easy. As the directory window is also the socket
window and the dialer, the ability to re-access the FTP directory was put
in. I apologise if it seems a little peculiar but directories can be
downloaded whilst you are looking at the sockets and we didn't want to
change the window function automatically. To re-access the FTP directory -
Select 'Show Directory' from the Options menu ( you will have to close the
socket window if it was open ) now one up from the bottom of the Options
menu is 'FTP Directory' click on this and the currently active FTP
directory will be displayed. Note that the 'FTP Directory' now reads 'Host
Directory' allowing you to swap between your own directory & the FTP sites.

        Part 2 is harder - we never put it in as we didn't know that anybody
wanted it. Phil put the kettle on I've got to go into the FTP routines
AGAIN.

        Dave
  

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