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Re: Oasis & Bad Checksums etc

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From: Paul Needham
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 00:00
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 In article <526964_Beta04_OASIS_NEWS@nest.demon.co.uk>
  dbrewood@nest.demon.co.uk (Daron Brewood) wrote:-

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

What is the timescale on this?

>>2) Why do I get so many checksum errors on both e-mail and use-net
>
>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.

Actually using 19200 on an unmodified 4meg STE with 14400 Modem

>>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.

Yes, I'm using Magic 5 BUT don't use long filenames.
>
>Hope the above helps. For the latest news on Oasis and Ice development 
>check out my WWW pages.
>

Will try sometime later tonight but I also find STiK and CAB very unstable
as well. Haven't tried CAB 2 yet but hear that still has a lost of problems.

Regards

Paul
 

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