Hello August!

*** 09.02.20 at 10:00, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

[snip]

Perhaps it would be a good idea to post this in the support newsgroup
where Gunter(the developer) can see it :)

Perhaps. :/

I see you've gone ahead and done it, well done my man :-)

I thought you were the official liason. ;)

Nope, I'm just an OpenXP user who likes to try and help others :)

Regards,
Martin

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Hello August!

*** 12.01.20 at 00:08, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

In the recent lock-up debacle, I was reminded that the decoded .PKT files do not get tossed until *after* all other processes (like a nodelist update) occurs.

I could tolerate the lockups (until it gets resolved with your help) but meanwhile the unpacked/decoded .PKTs sit in the /SPOOL/<host> directory. And if I don't toss them manually right away, the next poll wipes out the whole SPOOL directory with the next PKT arrivals.

It would make much more sense to toss the messages as soon as they have been received. Then I could atleast have something to read.

In my case, the PKTs already arrive unpacked from the Boss, so there is
no point to wait until a nodelist is processed.

I can preview the .PKTs with notepad and see which ones I am not too interested in and delete those. Then I can use OpenXP's "Import/Read
Other format.." for the PKTs that I want. But it sure is a bother to
only be able to do that one PKT at a time. :(

Perhaps it would be a good idea to post this in the support newsgroup
where Gunter(the developer) can see it :)

Regards,
Martin

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Hello Martin!

** 09.02.20 - 11:26, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:

In the recent lock-up debacle, I was reminded that the decoded .PKT
files do not get tossed until *after* all other processes (like a
nodelist update) occurs.

[snippity snip]

It would make much more sense to toss the messages as soon as they
have been received. Then I could atleast have something to read.

Perhaps it would be a good idea to post this in the support newsgroup
where Gunter(the developer) can see it :)

Perhaps. :/

I thought you were the official liason. ;)


../|ug

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An UPDATE to my original post:
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*** 12.01.20 at 00:08, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:

It would make much more sense to toss the messages as soon as they have
been received. Then I could atleast have something to read.

I can preview the .PKTs with notepad and see which ones I am not too
interested in and delete those. Then I can use OpenXP's "Import/Read
Other format.." for the PKTs that I want. But it sure is a bother to
only be able to do that one PKT at a time. :(

Perhaps it would be a good idea to post this in the support newsgroup
where Gunter(the developer) can see it :)

The following is gleened from..
AREA: de.comm.software.crosspoint >
SUBJECT: [1] toss pkts before anything else, and
[2] provide bulk Import/Read

DATE: Feb 11, 11:41 AM (9 hours ago)
FROM: Gunter

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Hallo August!

For a future consideration, [1] could it be possible to have oxp
actually place the pkt content into the message bases *before* anything
else gets done?

Ok, [1] will be changed in the next release.

I can preview the .PKTs with notepad and see which ones I am not too interested in and delete those. Then I can use OpenXP's "Import/Read
Other format.." for the PKTs that I want. But it sure is a bother to
only be able to do that one PKT at a time. :(

Therefore, [2] could a bulk Import/Read option be provided?

There is already a solution to [2]:

Open a command line and issue for example the following command:

openxp.exe zfido - fz C:\Fidopkt\A*.pkt D:\Output\Buffer.z

This will convert all PKT-files starting with letter A in folder C:\Fidopkt into a ZConnect buffer file named "Buffer.z" in folder D:\Output.

Then start OpenXP normally and do "Import" => "Read Zerberus Puffer".
Choose D:\Output\Buffer.z as the file to import.

If you enter "openxp.exe zfido" on the command line you will get a list of
all available command line options.


Ciao
Gunter
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../|ug

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