Paul, I no longer have the email you forwarded to me since it was 3 years ago. I asked you if something could be incorporated into the dx4win program that when a node drops the connection the dx4win program will sense that and will automatically try and connect you once again to that node. I did not mean in my email to you to have a "keep alive" function on the node and I was clear about that. This was putting the burden on the owner of the node. So can something be incorporated into the dx4win program to automatically sense that the node connection has terminated and the dx4win program to automatically connect back to that node?
john-n4dsp ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul van der Eijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "n4dsp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "dx4win" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 10:23 AM Subject: Re: [Dx4win] (no subject) > John, > > You are misinterpreting what was said. A while ago, we checked with a > number of > node operators, and found that a 'keep alive' ability was no longer an > issue. Before that, > keeping a connection alive was seen as bad practice. > > Since version 7.02, DX4WIN has a keep alive feature (not well > documented): > > In the dx4win.tcp file, add a vertical bar at the end of the line followed > by an integer. > The integer field is the number of minutes set for the timer. When the > user types > a character in the packet window, the timer is reset to start over again. > > From the dx4win.tcp file, the following entry: > 25 spots OH2AQ,http://oh2aq.kolumbus.com/dxs/dx25.html?|3 > > This download the last 25 spots every 3 minutes. > Same field can be added to telnet addresses. > > --Paul > > At 08:06 AM 4/9/2007, n4dsp wrote: >>He has addressed this. About three years ago I asked about this and was >>told this was not considered an important issue! >> >>john-n4dsp >> >>>How many years have users been complaining about this Jim? (rhetorical >>>question) It's strange that Paul never addressed it... >>>Mel... >>>VE2DC >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Dx4win mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Paul van der Eijk (KK4HD) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.dx4win.com >
