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From: kjs39186@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Kent Squires)
Subject: Re: Bug in ProTerm 2.2?
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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1991 06:15:41 GMT
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taob@pnet91.cts.com (Brian Tao) writes:


>    A curious thing happened today with ProTerm 2.2.  I wasn't around when it
>happened, and it's driving me crazy.  I started a massive upload of sampled
>sound files to a local BBS this morning at 12:50 am.  The total size of the
>upload is over 10 megabytes in about 60 files.  I expected to finish classes
>in the afternoon to find the transfer completed.  Instead, the GS was sitting
>at the Prosel-16 Main Menu with the screen blanker running!  Furthermore, it
>seems the transfer was aborted partway through a 2.2-megabyte file (only about
>1800K of it was transferred).  ZModem Batch was used to upload all files (this
>is to an IBM-based system).  Two questions:  why was the transfer aborted, and
>(more importantly) how did ProTerm quit to Prosel-16 by itself???



>Brian T. Tao   *B-) |  t569taob@bluffs.scar.utoronto.ca  | "Though this be
>U of Metro Toronto  |               - or -               |  madness, yet there
>Scarberia, ON       |        taob@pnet91.cts.com         |  is method in 't."

Well, it could be that the BBS you logged onto had a time limit, or, in the
midst of your download your U/D ratio fell below what was required for that
BBS.  On thing I noticed with ProTERM is that I was cut off from another
ProTERM after 90 mins.  That part about it dumping you back to ProSel is an
expected mystery.  One thought just occured to me.  The power may have been
cut off at your house (or wherever it is you live  apt/dorm whatever) and then
when it came back on it booted your HD (assuming you have one) and loaded up
ProSel! I bet THAT'S what happened.
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