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Re: Oasis & Bad Checksums etc

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From: Daron Brewood
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 00:00
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 In article <870019142_OASIS_NEWS@smgcbr.demon.co.uk>
  pn@smgcbr.demon.co.uk (Paul Needham) wrote:-

>1) Is Oasis still under development and do the most recent versions solve
>any of the many bugs?

Yes, a new public relesae is due out as soon as we can get ICE up to 
date with Oasis2.

>2) Why do I get so many checksum errors on both e-mail and use-net
>downloads. They seem to be more common during peak usage periods but I was
>still getting a lot at 3.00 AM today!

What rate are you using between ICE (and the atari) and the modem? I 
use 57600 and had the problems you describe when I was using the 
115200 rate.

>3) Why does Oasis perform reasonably well for a number of days and then,
>without any real reason, start giving error messages such as Error -33, File
>Not Found. After exiting and checking the News Folder the 'Group' file is no
>longer there (Either it's been deleted or, I suspect, been left open!) 

Never seen this problem at all, could be associated with using MagiC 
5+ on those partitions with long file naems turned on.

>Any help with these would be much appreciated

Hope the above helps. For the latest news on Oasis and Ice development 
check out my WWW pages.

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From: dbrewood@nest.demon.co.uk (Daron Brewood)
Subject: Re: Oasis & Bad Checksums etc
Date: 1997/07/27
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