Re: VSoup problem

Ronald Redmeijer (redm@xs4all.nl)
Thu, 12 Sep 1996 15:26:19 +0100

In article <LWcNycun8XuO092yn@ibm.net>, rgriech@ibm.net (Hardy Griech) wrote:
>On Tue, 10 Sep 1996 13:35:34 +0100, redm@xs4all.nl (Ronald Redmeijer) wrote:
> :
>> 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.
> :
>
>Just one try: start VSoup with the '-t 1' option, which allows only one
>NNTP connection. Does it still stuck?
>

I tried the '-t 1' option, and this worked. So I tried the '-t 2'
option,which worked also. Unfortunately, allowing 3 NNTP connections
(-t 3) I did stuck again. So I shoud use 'only' 2 NNTP connections.

>> 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?
> :
>
>To be honest: it is working for me and it should also work for you. I
>can really see no point, why it doesn't! (if you are a programmer,
>you can have a look at main.cc. There you see, that a signal handler
>is installed for several signals, including ^C, ^BREAK. This signal
>handler should abort the program).
>
>One idea: which TCP/IP do you have installed. Because I have Warp
>Connect installed, I have no idea, how VSoup will behave on a standard
>Warp with IAK only. Perhaps you should install some fixes first for
>IAK. But that question should be redirected to people who know more
>about IAK (anybody out there?)!

At the moment I am using OS/2 Merlin with the IAK. But the same problem
occurred with standard Warp with IAK. So, using ^C or ^Break still
doesn't work for me. I even tried to use ^C and ^Break when VSoup was
transferring the files. It resulted in hanging the transfer and getting
stuck.

>
>If you still cannot find the problem and have emx installed, you could
>recompile VSoup and enable debugging output in the makefile
>(DEBUG,DEBUG_ALL,TRACE,TRACE_ALL). If you are patient, you will find
>your problem in that output (and I can give you some assistance)
>

Well, I guess I am satisfied the way it works now. thanks for your
help.

>--
>Hardy Griech, Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 25/1, D-72762 Reutlingen
>

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Ronald Redmeijer        Leiden, The Netherlands        redm@xs4all.nl

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