Subj : OpenXP noob questions
To   : August Abolins
From : Martin Foster
Date : Sat Apr 06 2019 14:43:00

Hello August!

On 05.04.19 at 21:11, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

 MF>>>> ...have a look in the "Netcall"
 MF>>>> area where you'll find all your session logs.

 MF>> ... It would be better to look back through your session logs
 MF>> for occurences of *.SU?, *.MO?, *.TU? etc. etc. These are compressed
 MF>> mail bundle extensions.

 AA> The logs only record  .PKT  filenames.

That indicates that your uplink does not send compressed mail bundles  
and that your Download Unpacker setting is correct.

[snip]
 MF>> Check this out .....
 MF>> Config/External/Unpacker

 MF>> Do you see a "tick" mark at the right-hand end of the ZIP entry. If
 MF>> you don't, that's one possible reason why you're getting the "File
 MF>> incorrectly unpacked" error. The unpacker(s) that you wish to use
 MF>> should either be on your path or in OpenXP's root directory.

 AA> There are no tick marks.  It is just a list of archivers and their
 AA> "arguments"  ...and an F2 option to change things.

 MF>> I noticed in the logfile that you posted, that the filename of the
 MF>> nodelist was NODELIST.ZIP but OpenXP expects nodelist filenames to be
 MF>> in the form NODELIST.Z??,

 AA> But why didn't my renamed file NODELIST.ZIP to NODELIST.Z95 work?  Is it
 AA> because I didn't have a valid archiver available?

Yes, precisely.

 AA> I found a working unzip.exe here:

 AA> C:\SWTOOLS\APPS\wc301-219f ..and will copy that to the /OPENXP dir.

Has this resolved the issue?

 AA> Thanks for pointing out the various issues.

Pleased to have been of assistance :)

Regards,
Martin

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