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From: mwills@x102a.harris-atd.com (wills ms 01309)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Another Problem with WinQVT/Net
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Date: 6 Mar 91 22:58:23 GMT
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jewell@Data-IO.COM (Cal Jewell) writes:

>In article <2477@travis.csd.harris.com> leoh@hardy.hdw.csd.harris.com
>(Leo Hinds) writes:
>>In article <1716@pilchuck.Data-IO.COM> jewell@Data-IO.COM (Cal Jewell)
>>writes:
>>>As soon as I logout, I get an "Unrecoverable Application Error"
>>
>>I get these without logging out of the telnet session ... just idle time will
>>do it for me ...

>Interesting. I can let my telnet window sit idle for hours and
>nothing will happen. (WinQVT/NET won't crash. Everything seems
>to run fine.

Idle time is enough for me.  Is it possible that Leo Hinds and I are
both using a screen saver or some other configuration which causes
windows to swap wnqvt out, and that Cal Jewell is not?  I load screen
peace by default and use v8 of the ni5210 packet driver with the "-w"
switch (and MY shirt is white w/ stripes |-).  The "-w" switch
purportedly takes care of this by "sensing" that the application has
swapped out and dropping further packets until the application returns
to core.

I also get the "seemingly harmless" "packet driver error 8
(SetRcvMode)" message on wnqvtnet startup AND I get an occasional
"Packet received for invalid port - reset sent" in the wnqvtnet
console window.  Is this thing sending trash over the net?  I'd like
to know because I feel it's our responsibility to stop using it
immediately if it's impairing network performance.

As I post this I've seen at least a half dozen "invalid port"
messages.  I have also noted this message (exactly one occurrence)
under NCSA telnet v2.3b14.  What's the relationship?

>Yep, I have to use the same 'fix.' Looks like I will be going
>back to the older version of WinQVT/NET.
...
>a newer version of software that won't work properly on the
>same hardware and network setup that the older version of 
>software had no problems with.

Does this mean an older, more reliable version exists with a
reasonable subset of the current version's capabilities?  What subset,
and can it still be found at cica?

>Hope the QPC software folks are listening. Anybody
>know of if they are reachable by e-mail or if they
>can be reached on a BBS.

Sure would be nice.  Witness folks like FTP Inc. who carry out this
type of electronic interaction so effectively... and their
proportionately faithful customer base.

>>
>>leoh@hdw.csd.harris.com         	Leo Hinds       	(305)973-5229
-----------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Hey, I know you. (see .sig :-)

Scott Wills (mwills@rhino.ess.harris.com)

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