I relooked at newdos. There are a number of things that are not getting latency tolerance now. I think I will rewrite a section or two. The last version I have is 5.05, so will patch that.
On Monday, April 5, 2021, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 4:25 AM Stephen Adolph <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> man my memory is going. >> > > Too many projects sitting around for too long :-) > > >> John we did a bunch of work tweaking newdos to get it to run across wide >> area network delays. >> I have an entire project here that I completely forgot about! >> Anyways where we left it was version 6 of newdos 5.02. It seems to work >> much much better. did find one problem, that "listing" a document seems to >> not tolerate delays. >> Steve >> > > Yeah. And besides NEWDOS there's also the -win32 option to LaddieAlpha > that seemed to reduce latency a bit more. > > But ultimately I feel the right thing is to disable timeouts in NEWDOS, > make them big, and/or add retries. > > Aside from security stuff, people making their software sensitive and "not > work" at all in marginal conditions is always a mystery to me. DSR cable > detection is the worst... communication stalling when the cable is > disconnected is all the prompting a person needs to say "oops" and plug in > the cable. > > I don't remember the Listing feature. Probably doesn't get used much and > has its own timeouts that weren't addressed by NEWDOS. > > -- John. > >>
