Subj : OpenXP nodelist processing
To   : Martin Foster
From : August Abolins
Date : Mon Apr 08 2019 20:33:00

Hello Martin!

** 05.04.19 - 13:57, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:

MF> [1]Even though you're not using an unpacker for your incoming mail
MF> packets, you still need one for the Zip'd nodelists/pointlists and
MF> their respective Zip'd diffs. Additionally, you need one/some for the
MF> built-in Archive Viewer to function.

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.

UPDATE:  Now I know what you mean by "tick".  Before, I wasn't sure what I  
was supposed to look for.  The symbol you are refering to is *thinner*  
than the usual text, and therefore not very noticeable by me.

Maybe with the wonderful utf-8 and extended char support in oxp you could  
have have shown me the symbol to look for:  û  <G>  (see how thin it is?)

BTW, that's actually a square-root sysmbol to me.  And, I now realize that  
folks in the UK say "tick" for a checkmark.




MF> [2]  ..OpenXP expects nodelist filenames to be
MF> in the form NODELIST.Z??, where "??" is the last two characters of the
MF> Julian day number. In this particular case, OpenXP would have been
MF> expecting NODELIST.Z95.

UPDATE: Yes, I was always selecting the .Z## version of the archive.  BUT,  
at that time, I did not have the Conf/External/Unpacker properly set up.

I found this on my system:

UnZip 5.52 of 28 February 2005, by Info-ZIP.  Maintained by C. Spieler.

...and copied that to the OpenXP root directory.

The next time I went through the Add Nodelist routine, everything seemed  
to work.

Now I can S)earch for a name (or a partial name) and oxp gives me choices.

And.. the polling doesn't lock anymore as before.



Regards,
  ../|ug

--- OpenXP 5.0.37
 * Origin: /|ug's Point, ONT, CANADA (2:221/1.58)

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