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#WHAP Problems

    14-Jul-88 19:32:46
Fm: Gregory B. Tibbs 73767,456
Ok. New problem. I downloaded the DL headers for all three forums at one time. It went well. I picked files from all three forums and tried to download them. The AmigaTech files went well, but Whap got confused. It tried to download several AmigaArts files, and the first went OK. The next one hung and CIS said the files were not in the DL (14). The files I wanted were in DLs 8 & 9. Since I used the default 14 day scan, I feel something got out of sync and fooled WHAP into DL 14. I then reselected the files from the catalog and WHAP did the same. I redownloaded the catalog and WHAP got screwy(er). In the catalog section on the third blue bar going across the screen (the title bar?) random garbage started showing up. I kept going further into the catalog until the last one. I was just clicking on the next button fairly fast to get to the end of the catalog (44 files). Guess What? The next never ghosted and I got guru #3. I rebooted and deleted the AmigaArts.CAT file and redownloaded the catalog. Now everything works right. My opinion is that I had line noise at a critical part of the file and WHAP got Whapped! Guess What Again? I got a different # of files than the first time, significantly fewer (23 I think). -Greg