CompuServe Thread

#Access

5 messages in this thread
#132787From: George BricknerJul 1, 1988 9:29 PM
Gee, Kurt, I've been downloading messages twice a week for about six months with Access! without a hitch. My typical download is 300K in size. I capture to DF1: at 2400 baud and have my serial port buffer set to 8000. Geo
#132817From: KEITH YOUNGJul 2, 1988 2:06 AM
George, The serial port buffer (ala setable by preferences) is 'changed' by Access! at run time. I too have yet to see th eproblem Kurt describes… but _he_ is having some problem and it sounds like it's 'repeatable' for _him_. Steve A. (sysop here) has also seen it happen, but from my tests so far, I can't seem to reproduce it… I think it's been described as 'repeating the _same_ msg over and over, this leads me to think it's a 'node' problem (or a CIS one). _If_ it's some 'portion' of a msg, then it might be tracable to Acc!… how 'bout it guys? is it a 'msg' that gets repeated or just some 'arbitrary' _text_ ? (portion of a msg). (Steve, Kurt, if you read this, please double check… detailed info would be appreciated). -Keith
#132818From: Steve AhlstromJul 2, 1988 2:20 AM
Keith, In a followup message Kurt reports "If I hangup on Compuserve but DON'T close my capture buffer then somemore messages come accross my monitor.". That leads me to believe that 'some more' means different messages other than the 2 that are constantly repeated. Since this happens after disconnect, it also leads me to believe it's not a node problem. Since, with the modem disconnected, it's impossible for different text to be coming into the buffer. BTW, _once_ I saw this on another system when I was capturing a lot of text.
#132820From: KEITH YOUNGJul 2, 1988 2:32 AM
Ah.. so he did… forgot about that… I'll keep looking, thanks. – Keith
#132927From: George BricknerJul 2, 1988 10:33 PM
Keith, what does Access! do with the serial port buffer? In my downloads to disk at 2400 baud (simple capture) I have never lost any data. When the buffer was set at 512 with an eariler release of Access!, I would have data loss all the time. Geo