[part about describing my problem deleted]
>>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 always wondered why I had to compress all the files, while yarn
imediatly afterwards was uncompressing them. I never came to the idea
to leave that part out. My mind must have be realy troubled :-)
>
>>
>>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.
Since I am having an external modem, I could see there were no files
being transfered. And the indicator of VSoup (25% (00000k)) didn't
change either.
>
>Also you should check that your ISP is not having problems. Try it
>again at a later time.
I did check it with souper, and my ISP was not having any troubles.
>
>>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
>http://web2.airmail.net/pcrown/
>
The solution seems like my ISP only allows up to 2 NNTP connections
(since the -t 2 switch does work, the -t 3 switch does not). Ctrl-Break
and Ctrl-C still don't work for me. But anyway Phil, thanks for
helping.
-- Ronald Redmeijer Leiden, The Netherlands redm@xs4all.nl***** Life is too short to worry about computers. ***** ***** If I only could affort one. *****