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[WriteLog] RE: Fix For Packet Problem before ARRL DX PHONE Contest???

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Subject: [WriteLog] RE: Fix For Packet Problem before ARRL DX PHONE Contest???
From: w8ik@arrl.net (Joe Subich, W8IK)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 23:18:06 -0500

Strike an ARcluster problem ... works fine with plain old Telnet
but WriteLog 11.14 loses it.  Maybe ARcluster is dumping the data
faster than some of the other cluster software and is overrunning
some buffer in Writelog ...

   ... Joe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-writelog@contesting.com
> [mailto:owner-writelog@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Joe Subich, W8IK
> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 10:37 PM
> To: Marty Tippin; w5xd@alum.mit.edu
> Cc: writelog@contesting.com
> Subject: RE: [WriteLog] RE: Fix For Packet Problem before ARRL DX PHONE
> Contest???
>
> The "problem" seems to be unique to nodes running ARcluster
> software.  Try the same thing with a node using one of the
> other varieties (CLX, Pavilion, etc.) and the symptom does
> not appear.
>
> I would wager that ARCluster gets itself in a CR/LF loop if
> one asks for more data than it has in the queue.  Do a
> SH/DX/10 and you're OK ... do a SH/DX/100 and you're sure to
> crash.
>
> 73,
>    ... Joe Subich, W8IK/4
>        <W8IK@ARRL.NET>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-writelog@contesting.com
> > [mailto:owner-writelog@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Marty Tippin
> > Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 10:02 PM
> > To: w5xd@alum.mit.edu
> > Cc: writelog@contesting.com
> > Subject: Re: [WriteLog] RE: Fix For Packet Problem before ARRL DX PHONE
> > Contest???
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi Wayne -
> >
> > I suppose you've been inundated by now, but here's my 2 cents worth...
> >
> > Here's how to reproduce the problem:
> > 1. Log in to packet cluster via telnet node (I used the wu3v node
> > specifically - dxc.wu3v.net) - don't know if it's specific to telnet or
> > not, but KG0US and I have both seen the problem and are using telnet.
> > 2. do "SH/DX/100"
> >
> >
>


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