Subj : oxp: nodediff fails :(
To   : August Abolins
From : Martin Foster
Date : Fri Feb 14 2020 12:04:00

Hello August!

*** 13.02.20 at 20:06, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

 MF>> [snip]
 AA>>>   Extracting NODEDIFF.038 from H:\DOWNLOADS\OPENXP\FILES\NODEDIFF.Z38
 AA>>> 07.02.20 17:17:02
 AA>>>   NODELIST.031: Wrong version of node/point list or diff

 MF>> Finally, finally, finally, I've figured this out .....

 AA> I hate to be the bearer of bad news,   ..but right after NODEDIFF.Z45
 AA> arrived, it locked up, again!  :(

FFS :-((((((((((((
Sorry, just had to say that.

 AA> Here are the details:

[snipped]
Didn't see anything wrong in your debuglog, in fact, it's very similar to  
mine when NODEDIFF.Z45 arrived on my system.

 AA>   ..and promptly locked up at this point.

 AA> After another poll a few minutes later, this happens:

[snipped]
Didn't see anything wrong in there either.

 AA>   ..and promptly locks up.

 AA> The ONLY way I could prevent the lock up happening with the next
 AA> normal poll was by making sure I delete the .TIC file:  0ss71rpr.tic

In all my years(26 of them) of using OpenXP, FreeXP, XP2 and CrossPoint,  
I've never ever come across anything quite like this before - Hmph!

 AA>   ..which contained:

[snipped]
Everything looked good in there.

 AA> The new updated nodelist number in oxp looks good:

 AA> +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
 AA> Ý Z2PNT.###     038  Z2PNT_D.###   Z2PNT_D.Z##   Diff  FD Pointlist    Ý
 AA> Ý NODELIST.###  045  NODEDIFF.###  NODEDIFF.Z##  Diff  Nodelist        Ý
 AA> Ý                                                                      Ý

Yep, nothing wrong with that.

 AA> The top few lines of NODELIST.045 look like:

 AA> ;A FidoNet Nodelist for Friday, February 14, 2020 -- Day number 045 :
 AA> 12455 ;Aú
 AA> ;A  MakeNL 3.4.5 (Win32)ú
 AA> ;Aú
 AA> ;A The FidoNet NodeList, a listing of the systems within FidoNet.ú
 AA> ;Aú
 AA> ;A  This is the nodelist produced at 2:2/0ú

Yep, same as my copy.

 AA> SEE?   So.. the .TIC file in /FILES *could* be a problem.

 AA> Therefore, maybe I should disable "THIS" below?:

 AA> +- Fido Options ---------------------------------+
 AA> Ý                                                Ý
 AA> Ý  Int. dial prefix    00                        Ý
 AA> Ý  Nat. dial prefix    0                         Ý
 AA> Ý  Your dialing code   49-631                    Ý
 AA> Ý                                                Ý
 AA> Ý   [x]   Import nodelist updates automatically  Ý
 AA> Ý   [ ]   Delete empty messages                  Ý
 AA> Ý   [x]   Automatic TIC file processing          Ý<==THIS?
 AA> Ý   [x]   Hold requests if files are missing     Ý

 AA> Maybe the system is trying to create "Area NODEDIFZ" and is failing?
 AA> Bug?

All I can suggest you do is to disable it and see what happens next  
Friday. I have it disabled, so I'll enable it and see what happens here  
next Friday.

Regards,
Martin

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