Re: VSoup problem

Phil Crown (pcrown@airmail.net)
Tue, 10 Sep 1996 11:49:57 -0500

>Hello all,
>
>I read the announcement of VSoup and some enthousiastic people saying
>it was much faster than Souper. So I decided to give it a trie. Since
>I never trust new feutures/programs, I decided to test VSoup on getting
>my news. I put the VSoup command in the place of the souper command in
>my getting-news-script. I made a connection with my provider and ran
>the changed script. Nothing happened. Okay, my window opened, but my
>script stopped. I couldn't exit the script. Not with CTRL-Break or
>CTRL-C, not even with closing the window. It just didn't close. And my
>system started acting slower. I had to restart my system to get rid of
>the script-window. So I decided to make a small test script to get only
>two newsgroups. This is what my script looks like:
>
>@echo off
>f:
>cd \yarn\temp
>vsoup -m -N f:\yarn\home\testrc
>if not exist *.msg goto einde
>if not exist areas goto einde
>copy 00000??.MSG *.OLD
>copy AREAS AREAS.OLD
>rem zip -kjm soup.zip areas *.msg
>rem import soup.zip
import -u

You might as well skip the 'zip ...' stuff and call 'import -u'
instead. :-)

>
>I connected to my provider, started the script in an OS/2 window and it
>got stuck again. This is how far it came this time:
>
>vsoup: connected to news server news.xs4all.nl (getNews)
>vsoup: 0 unread articles in hacktic.admin
>vsoup: 4 unread articles in xs4all.slip
>25% (00000k)
>
>Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? I would realy like to trie (and
>experience) the speed of VSoup.

It looks like you're not doing anything wrong. If you have SIO's PMLM
you can look at the line to see if anything is actually being
transferred. When I receive over a megabyte of uudecoded email, Souper
appears to be hung, but it is just getting a large file.

Also you should check that your ISP is not having problems. Try it
again at a later time.

>And a request to Hardy Griech: It might be useful to alow a CTRL-Break
>or CTRL-C to exit VSoup, so please can you implement it?

Ctrl-C does kill VSoup here, I have not tried Ctrl-Break, but from
looking thru the source code it seems to install handlers for Ctrl-C and
Ctrl-Break.

>
>Thanks,
> Ronald

Hopefully, Hardy will have a better suggestion.

-- 
Phil Crown
pcrown@airmail.net
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