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| Filename: | !TCPIP/TCPIP_Doc/History/New_203 |
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| File size: | 0531 bytes |
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File contents
TCPIP (Arc KA9Q) Version 2.03 (21-Feb-1995)
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See "New_202" for details of changes since v2.01.
Fixes
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NNTP History
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Problems: NNTP sometimes lost its history.
Confusion could arise from running multiple feeds
simultaneously.
NNTP History safety net against system failures should mean that ID
history is never lost.
Dropped the global ID history and gone back to separate history files,
but of course keeping new history code and new file format.
CSLIP
~~~~~
Problem: Excessive checksum errors with TCP compress.
There was an odd problem that sometimes resulting in excessive
re-transmitions and corruption of TCP ACK numbers, and so checksum
errors. This seems to have fixed itself since converting BSD CSLIP
code to ANSI-C. (Compiler problem?)
Main symtom of this was very slow outgoing mail, FTP uploads etc.
SMTP
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Problem: Alias expansion was also filtering valid file names.
Revised user name filter to allow dot separated user names to be written
if directory exists to accomodate the file. Also preserves as many
characters as possible from multi-part names.
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Please address bug reports etc to tcpip2@comptech.demon.co.uk.
Adam Goodfellow <adam@comptech.demon.co.uk>
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(Co| 00000330 6d 70 69 6c 65 72 20 70 72 6f 62 6c 65 6d 3f 29 |mpiler problem?)| 00000340 0a 0a 4d 61 69 6e 20 73 79 6d 74 6f 6d 20 6f 66 |..Main symtom of| 00000350 20 74 68 69 73 20 77 61 73 20 76 65 72 79 20 73 | this was very s| 00000360 6c 6f 77 20 6f 75 74 67 6f 69 6e 67 20 6d 61 69 |low outgoing mai| 00000370 6c 2c 20 46 54 50 20 75 70 6c 6f 61 64 73 20 65 |l, FTP uploads e| 00000380 74 63 2e 0a 0a 0a 53 4d 54 50 0a 7e 7e 7e 7e 0a |tc....SMTP.~~~~.| 00000390 50 72 6f 62 6c 65 6d 3a 20 41 6c 69 61 73 20 65 |Problem: Alias e| 000003a0 78 70 61 6e 73 69 6f 6e 20 77 61 73 20 61 6c 73 |xpansion was als| 000003b0 6f 20 66 69 6c 74 65 72 69 6e 67 20 76 61 6c 69 |o filtering vali| 000003c0 64 20 66 69 6c 65 20 6e 61 6d 65 73 2e 0a 0a 52 |d file names...R| 000003d0 65 76 69 73 65 64 20 75 73 65 72 20 6e 61 6d 65 |evised user name| 000003e0 20 66 69 6c 74 65 72 20 74 6f 20 61 6c 6c 6f 77 | filter to allow| 000003f0 20 64 6f 74 20 73 65 70 61 72 61 74 65 64 20 75 | dot separated u| 00000400 73 65 72 20 6e 61 6d 65 73 20 74 6f 20 62 65 20 |ser names to be | 00000410 77 72 69 74 74 65 6e 0a 69 66 20 64 69 72 65 63 |written.if direc| 00000420 74 6f 72 79 20 65 78 69 73 74 73 20 74 6f 20 61 |tory exists to a| 00000430 63 63 6f 6d 6f 64 61 74 65 20 74 68 65 20 66 69 |ccomodate the fi| 00000440 6c 65 2e 20 41 6c 73 6f 20 70 72 65 73 65 72 76 |le. Also preserv| 00000450 65 73 20 61 73 20 6d 61 6e 79 0a 63 68 61 72 61 |es as many.chara| 00000460 63 74 65 72 73 20 61 73 20 70 6f 73 73 69 62 6c |cters as possibl| 00000470 65 20 66 72 6f 6d 20 6d 75 6c 74 69 2d 70 61 72 |e from multi-par| 00000480 74 20 6e 61 6d 65 73 2e 0a 0a 0a 20 20 20 20 20 |t names.... | 00000490 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d | --------| 000004a0 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d 2d |----------------| * 000004c0 2d 2d 0a 0a 50 6c 65 61 73 65 20 61 64 64 72 65 |--..Please addre| 000004d0 73 73 20 62 75 67 20 72 65 70 6f 72 74 73 20 65 |ss bug reports e| 000004e0 74 63 20 74 6f 20 74 63 70 69 70 32 40 63 6f 6d |tc to tcpip2@com| 000004f0 70 74 65 63 68 2e 64 65 6d 6f 6e 2e 63 6f 2e 75 |ptech.demon.co.u| 00000500 6b 2e 0a 0a 41 64 61 6d 20 47 6f 6f 64 66 65 6c |k...Adam Goodfel| 00000510 6c 6f 77 20 3c 61 64 61 6d 40 63 6f 6d 70 74 65 |low <adam@compte| 00000520 63 68 2e 64 65 6d 6f 6e 2e 63 6f 2e 75 6b 3e 0a |ch.demon.co.uk>.| 00000530 0a |.| 00000531
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