According to Marc Ressl, author of Netmail for DOS, there is one known bug in its version 2.12: with an input/download line length of exactly 1001 bytes and a certain package length it hangs and retries do download the same line endlessly. Ressl said this had nothing to do with anything in that line, but just with that exact line length.
Author says he'd work on it as soon as possible... (that was towards end of last year; he said that he was in some extremely stressy work situation at the that moment; I don't know if things have changed since.) I have experienced this condition twice, in a short time in the middle of last year and never again since. At my machine, NM did not go berserk but endlessly wrote empty lines instead of the mail file it was to download; could have filled the whole hard disk if unattended. :(( Only way out at that moment was indeed either to download that specific mail with some other mailer (I use a "manual" net working tool for this, a script with Martin Goebbel's "Netbasic interpreter"[*]) or to delete the offending item at the server (e.g., via telnetting). // Heimo Claasen // <hammer at revobild dot net> // Brussels 2002-04-24 The WebPlace of ReRead - and much to read ==> http://www.revobild.net This is indeed a nice tool, definitely more comfortable to use than "raw" telnetting or other net communication (allows to use just any pertinent command of any type of accessible server, POP3, SMTP, FTP, HTTP etc). Only disadvantage is that Martin integrated a filter which suppresses all ASCII bytes lower than 32 and higher than 128 (8-bits); which makes it inappropriate for general use. (I tried to convince him to take that dang filter out again but he hasn't yet.) NETBAS (v0.4) can be found at my www place, together with a script to use with POP3 servers allowing to use all server commands directly, or with more advanced formats (ranges of items etc.) and in a batch. -hc To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
