Subj : oxp wishlist: toss PKTs immediately, and provide bulk "Import/Read othe
To   : August Abolins
From : Martin Foster
Date : Sun Feb 09 2020 11:26:00

Hello August!

*** 12.01.20 at 00:08, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

 AA> In the recent lock-up debacle, I was reminded that the decoded .PKT files
 AA> do not get tossed until *after* all other processes (like a nodelist
 AA> update) occurs.

 AA> I could tolerate the lockups (until it gets resolved with your help) but
 AA> meanwhile the unpacked/decoded .PKTs sit in the /SPOOL/<host> directory.
 AA> And if I don't toss them manually right away, the next poll wipes out the
 AA> whole SPOOL directory with the next PKT arrivals.

 AA> It would make much more sense to toss the messages as soon as they have
 AA> been received. Then I could atleast have something to read.

 AA> In my case, the PKTs already arrive unpacked from the Boss, so there is
 AA> no point to wait until a nodelist is processed.

 AA> I can preview the .PKTs with notepad and see which ones I am not too
 AA> interested in and delete those. Then I can use OpenXP's "Import/Read
 AA> Other format.." for the PKTs that I want.  But it sure is a bother to
 AA> only be able to do that one PKT at a time.  :(

Perhaps it would be a good idea to post this in the support newsgroup  
where Gunter(the developer) can see it :)

Regards,
Martin

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