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- From: steveh@grafex.Cupertino.CA.US (Steve Harding KA6ETB)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle,sbay.waffle
- Subject: Re: Fun with OS/2 2.0 (was Fun with MS Windows)
- Message-ID: <iiZcuB4w165w@grafex.Cupertino.CA.US>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 17:04:41 PST
- References: <P82BuB1w165w@tcscs.UUCP>
- Distribution: sbay
- Organization: The GRAFex Company
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- zeta%tcscs@idss.nwa.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:
-
- > On my system I continuously run UUXQT while UUCICO is receiving files,
- > at one point I accidentally ran the wrong UUCICO batch file, the one
- > with UUXQT after UUCICO. When it ran, it had two UUXQT going at the
- > same time. Then all of a sudden it starts
- > Out of synch
- > Out of synch
- > Out of synch
- > ...
- > going like crazy on the screen. CTRL-ESC (os/2 system) and close
- > the sessions with UUXQT going, and restart UUXQT and all was fine.
-
- I tried closing the DOS Windows sessions. No such luck.
-
- > Another thing that happens is when one UUXQT renames or copies the
- > file to batch1 and batch1 is already there, then it stops and simply
- > says...
- > batch1 already exists, do you wish to overwrite existing batch1 (Y/N)?
-
- That didn't happen for me. It unbatched the same file twice.
-
- ]...[
-
- > I've solved 98% of the problems by having two icons I run.
- > one is UUXQT -crnews and the other is UUXQT -crmail. I can run these
- > simultaneously to process news and mail separately.
-
- I run UUXQT after each poll. I connect with eight sites and I like to
- push thru the stuff as quickly as possible. I also have a news-->email
- customer.
-
- If I were planning to run Windows continuously, then I suppose a separate
- window for UUXQT would make sense. I am forced into it because of a
- project I am working on.
-
- steve
-
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