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From: alex@bilver.uucp (Alex Matulich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: Fixes for HandShake2.20c
Message-ID: <1991May18.211224.14418@bilver.uucp>
Date: 18 May 91 21:12:24 GMT
References: <53696@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
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In article <53696@nigel.ee.udel.edu> ISCOVE@utoroci.bitnet writes:
>Two problems have been noted in earlier posts concerning the
>HandShake2.20c release.
>
>The first was incorrect interaction with xprzmodem2.1.
>[...]  The fix is to generate the HandShake.parms file
>from scratch from the HandShake2.20c menu.  After doing this,
>xprzmodem2.1 worked correctly.

Not for me!  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.  I feel that
perhaps the fault here is not with Handshake.

>The second problem was intermittent crashing when dialling from
>the phone directory.  It looks like this was simply a stack
>overflow problem.  I have had no further crashes after setting
>the stack size to 8000 in the appropriate icons.

I have this problem also, but I never run handshake from an icon, always
from a CLI, and my stack is set to 8192 bytes at all times.

>The above holds for a B2000 running WB1.3.2.

But not, apparently, for an A1000 running WB1.3.2.  I am unconvinced that
the fixes you describe are actually final solutions to the problems you
(and I) experienced.  But thanks for posting your article anyway.

>Norman Iscove    iscove@utoroci.bitnet

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