[pskmail] Re: New alpha test suite for pskmail adds
- From: "Rein Couperus" <rein@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pskmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 10:07:37 +0200 (CEST)
Makes sense, I will check again...
Rein PA0R
>Hi Rein,
>
>Here are the results of my test with the latest client and server:
>
>The igate works great.
>
>I reproduced the issue I mentioned before by proceeding the following way:
>
>1. Start a mail download. In my case a 2K grib reply email.
>
>2. Close the client in the middle of receiving the mail at about 30%.
>The size of the file in the pending directory is consistent with the
>percentage downloaded.
>
>3. Restart and reconnect the client. Server sends FM frame as
>expected, client comes back with FY and receiving of mail resumes
>normally.
>
>4. Again, close client but at 78%. This time the size of the file in
>the pending directory is reduced to 308 bytes from memory (or close to
>that value) and contains a blank line as the first line.
>
>5. Relaunch and reconnect client results in resume but at 308 bytes
>only and the received file is corrupted and can't be uncompressed.
>
>I restarted the whole sequence above a second time and got a similar result.
>
>So it seems that this happens after the second interruption on the
>same email (after 2nd client close or 2nd abort as I saw last time) .
>
>Let me know what else I can test.
>
>This is on Ubuntu 8.04 by the way.
>
>Regards,
>
>John
>
>On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Rein Couperus wrote:
>> There is new alpha software for testing:
>>
>> pskmail_server-1.0.23.tar.gz
>>
>> This new server supports the resume function (restart a download
>> automatically after a disconnect).
>> It also features a new info command: ~GETIAC downloads the latest IAC
>> fleetcodes file from NOAA,
>> which can then be viewed with zyGrib (available for windows as well as
>> linux).
>>
>> jpskmail-0.7c
>>
>> The archive is called javapskmail.jar, and the best way to install it is to
>> use the installer for jPSKmail-0.5.4, and then copying the new
>> javapskmail,jar file over the
>> existing one. jPSKmail-0.5.4 installs all the required libraries...
>>
>> The new client features an Igate function, which relays APRS beacons and
>> APRS messages to the
>> APRS-IS on the internet. As this is used on HF, the client does not QSL the
>> beacons. This to keep contention on the
>> pskmail APRS frequency to a minimum... As from now, you only need the client
>> to build an HF APRS system..
>>
>> The resume function has been ruggedized by adding some .flush here and
>> there, the client will
>> now resume even with only one line received...
>>
>> Also included is a menu command to download and auto-rename the latest IAC
>> Fleetcodes file,
>> to be displayed directly in zyGrib.
>>
>> The archives for server and client are available in
>> http://hermes.esrac.ele.tue.nl/pskmail/alpha
>>
>> This test suite is a pre-beta release for the next stable client/server
>> combination.
>> If you have time, pse test this thoroughly, so I can get the bugs out before
>> the beta release out...
>>
>> The client has been tested on Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows 2000....
>> The server runs on PI4TUE, hopefully soon on a server near you :)
>>
>> Have fun,
>>
>> 73, Rein PA0R
>>
>> --
>> http://pa0r.blogspirit.com
>>
>>
>
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