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- From: troels@stud.cs.uit.no (Troels Walsted Hansen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: THOR question
- Date: 30 Jan 96 23:41:09 +0100
- Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway
- Message-ID: <1045.6603T1421T493@stud.cs.uit.no>
- References: <1209.6603T5T592@chch.planet.org.nz>
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- In article <1209.6603T5T592@chch.planet.org.nz>, jmonson@chch.planet.org.nz (Jmonson) wrote:
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- >when importing news via a tcp link, the connect thor subprogram has a nice
- >little box showing how mucg news it has transferred both as a graphical bar,
- >and a numerical method which looks like this: (24/105)
- >Which I assume to mean "I have collected 24 articals of news out of 105
- >newspostings".
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- >But I have noticed that the second number sometimes counts _down_.
- >(perhaps indicating the number does not mean what i think it does.)
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- >Just today it started at (0/466).. the first number counted up, the second
- >number counted down, and it finished up at (92/92). In these cases the
- >graphical bar only partially fills.
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- >so my question is...
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- >What is happening?
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- >and why?
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- The newsserver reports a higher number of msgs than it actually stores. When
- GetTCP sees that it cannot retrieve a msg it decreases the counter..
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- T r o e l s W a l s t e d H a n s e n
- troels@stud.cs.uit.no - http://www.cs.uit.no/~troels
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