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VK6BE > WINPACK 25.05.09 02:48l 58 Lines 2479 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : CC1202VK6BE
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Subj: Longstanding problem
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Sent: 090525/0029Z @:VK2TV.#MNC.NSW.AUS.OC #:58293 [Kempsey, QF68JX] $:CC1202VK
From: VK6BE@VK2TV.#MNC.NSW.AUS.OC
To : WINPAC@WW
Hi listeners and lurkers!
I have had a longstanding problem here with Winpack version 6 for which I
have no answers. I wonder if anyone has a suggestion as to the cause. I
had no trouble getting earlier versions of Winpack than Version 6 to work
but this one has me stumped. Here is the whole story:
FirstIy I use Telnet through the facility given me by Ray VK2TV. (Thank
you, Ray!).
I can connect OK and receive and send bulletins and PNLs with no problem
until Ray himself sends out a bulletin. Ray's bulletin comes to me with
headers etc. but no text. Then I find Ray's text in the next bulletin
received from another station, but the text from that station turns up
somewhere else too. I downloaded the latest version of Winpack 6.8 but
the same problem still exists. Finally I thought it must be my computer
that is causing the problem so I downloaded a fresh version of 6.8 onto my
laptop. Both computers use XP Professional. Here is what happened.
1. Main computer: Everything works OK except that messages from Ray have
the
text missing. Then I find that text in the next bulletin from another
station. The bulletins from other users come through OK unless they follow
one
of Ray's bulletins. The only propblem is when Ray sends out a Bulletin. I
believe other users do not have the same problem.
2. My laptop: Winpack 6.8 downloads OK and opens but comes up with an
error
message FAILED TO FIND SV2AGW PACKET ENGINE. THE PACKET ENGINE SUPPORT HAS
NOT BEEN INITIALIZED. Clicking OK brings up the Winpack message screen .
Going into the Personal/BBS information screen accepts everthing including
the address numbers.COMMS SETUP is a different story. No matter what I do
TELNET
changes to AGW every time I click OK and leave the screen. Clicking the
post
box brings up a connect to VK2TV's address but nothing happens of course
because the TELNET in the COMMS setup has changed back to AGW again and
the same error message comes up..
I don't know whether I attract problems like a magnet but I would have
hoped that
one of these two computers would have given the right answers. Previously
I
have installed Winpack from the early versions with no problems but
suddenly with the later versions from 6.0 I get these problems, which
have persisted for a year or two now..
Do the above symptoms suggest anything to someone? They have me stumped.
They
just don't make sense to me.
Cheers,
Bob VK6BE.
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