Subj : Software Quirks
To   : All
From : Kevin Nunn
Date : Thu Aug 01 2019 17:04:25


So, since taking over the hub200 duties, I've been tweaking things on
the BBS computer, trying to make things run smoother etc.

Well, the last few days I've noticed not echo messages on the BBS, so I
start investigating. Fastecho is reporting an error 2 when unpacking
packets. So, I go into the inbound directory and manually unpack the
files and it works fine. So I toss stuff into the BBS directly from the
PKT files (lots of them - thank God for wildcards). 

Then I tracked down the problem. Last week I saw that ArcaOS2 had the
ramdrive program, so I set one up as drive T, and changed all my temp
paths to use T. Well - after a reboot earlier this week. The ramdrive
was recreated, but didn't have the directory that fastecho was using
for the temp directory in the unpack command. So unzip was failing. 

With the speed of today's HDs and computers, I really don't need a
ramdrive. So I'll be removing it and switching things back to the real
hard drive, but that was an interesting troubleshooting session. 

Kev

 
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