>For unknown reasons, our previously working uqwk setup has gone belly-up
>WRT to newsgroups (still gets mail OK), so for now I've switched to
>SOUPER95. I got it working with minimal difficulty (thanks in part to
>Debra Walker's example batch files that I found in the mailing list
>archive, thanks Debra).
Your ISP screwed around with directories, most likely. I hate it when
they do that. Messes everything up. Have you considered talking to
them about it?
>But I've got one problem: it's exhibiting a strong tendancy to just
>stall partway through a news retrieval. While I've developed enough
>understanding of SOUP formats and other things to do a ctrl-break and
>manually import what's been retrieved, this is supposed to be for my
>wife and work without operator intervention. So, has anyone else had
>problems with souper95 stalling, and have they been able to cure it?
Stall? In what way? I was using Souper95, and I switched to
Souper/GUI, though I still have my Souper95 setups around somewhere.
Does your ISP disconnect when that happens? It may well be your ISP
having problems, and not your machine.
>For reference, system is Win95 on a generic 486/100. My ISP's news
>server runs at acceptable speed but isn't a speed demon. OTOH, in the
>same call as souper was stalling, I was able to use NewsXpress with no
>difficulty at all and with very reasonable response times.
That's odd. I'll have to leave this one with the Souper95 experts.
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