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    From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to all on Sat Mar 31 10:32:17 2012

    i've been running the universal flavor of allfix for many years... my system is
    OS/2 Warp 3 Connect with hpfs drives... i make sure that i load a module so that the 2gig overflow stuff is hidden from DOS programs... however, this doesn't work on the OS/2 side so i've always run my allfix from the DOS side...

    so, i've had a problem for a long time where allfix would tell me that it could
    not move a file due to lack of drive space... however, if i manually removed the duplicate that would be replaced, then the allfix would properly move the new file to where it needed to be... it has been frustrating enough that i was just going to turn off some of the areas that this happens in all the time... yeah, i did turn off space checking in the setup but it didn't help...

    then the other day i found the command line option -NoSpaceChk and was quite surprised to find that it works! YAY!!! no more full BADTICS directory and the files are properly moved...

    the strange thing is that the configs are set (via setup) to not check drive space and REPLACE is allowed... so i don't understand why it was telling me no space on destination when it should not have even been looking... possibly an erroneous error message? it should maybe have been another one?

    either way, i wanted to share the news that i finally fixed a problem i've had for a decade or better and just never really talked about out here :)

    )\/(ark


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  • From Vince Coen@2:250/1 to mark lewis on Wed Apr 4 20:18:35 2012
    Hello mark!

    31 Mar 12 10:32, you wrote to all:


    either way, i wanted to share the news that i finally fixed a problem
    i've had for a decade or better and just never really talked about out
    here :)

    Is that with the new version or the 5.13 types?


    Vince

    --- Linux/Mbse/GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5
    * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK (2:250/1)
  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Vince Coen on Wed Apr 11 16:08:31 2012

    either way, i wanted to share the news that i finally fixed a problem
    i've had for a decade or better and just never really talked about out
    here :)

    Is that with the new version or the 5.13 types?

    ummm... first line of my post... "the universal flavor of allfix" ;)

    )\/(ark


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  • From Vince Coen@2:250/1 to mark lewis on Mon Apr 16 23:02:13 2012
    Hello mark!

    11 Apr 12 16:08, you wrote to me:


    either way, i wanted to share the news that i finally fixed a
    problem i've had for a decade or better and just never really
    talked about out here :)

    Is that with the new version or the 5.13 types?

    ummm... first line of my post... "the universal flavor of allfix" ;)

    Does not show the version only the 'flavor' and universal has been around on
    a lot of versions, so is it version 6.xx or 5.13 or earler?


    Vince

    --- Linux/Mbse/GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5
    * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK (2:250/1)
  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Vince Coen on Tue Apr 17 13:26:54 2012

    either way, i wanted to share the news that i finally fixed a
    problem i've had for a decade or better and just never really
    talked about out here :)

    Is that with the new version or the 5.13 types?

    ummm... first line of my post... "the universal flavor of allfix" ;)

    Does not show the version only the 'flavor' and universal has been
    around on a lot of versions, so is it version 6.xx or 5.13 or
    earler?

    there is no universal any more with the new stuff that's come out in the last couple of years... so it has to be 5.1.3... sorry to seem obtusive but i thought this was common knowledge about universal...

    )\/(ark


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  • From Bob Seaborn@1:140/12 to mark lewis on Wed Apr 18 08:29:00 2012

    Does not show the version only the 'flavor' and universal has been
    around on a lot of versions, so is it version 6.xx or 5.13 or
    earler?

    there is no universal any more with the new stuff that's come out in the last couple of years... so it has to be 5.1.3... sorry to seem obtusive
    but i thought this was common knowledge about universal...



    When Harald first created the "universal" version, he made use of some commercial software that is no longer being developed, or even available. That is the reason there is no longer a "universal" version, nor is there plans to ever be.





    .....Bob

    --- GEcho/32 & IM 2.50
    * Origin: From the Keyboard of the Echo Moderator (1:140/12)
  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Bob Seaborn on Fri Apr 20 06:01:16 2012

    Does not show the version only the 'flavor' and universal has been
    around on a lot of versions, so is it version 6.xx or 5.13 or
    earler?

    there is no universal any more with the new stuff that's come out in the last couple of years... so it has to be 5.1.3... sorry to seem obtusive
    but i thought this was common knowledge about universal...

    When Harald first created the "universal" version, he made
    use of some commercial software that is no longer being developed,
    or even available. That is the reason there is no longer a
    "universal" version, nor is there plans to ever be.

    yes, i'm definitely aware of this... other FTN tools used similar code libraries... this is what i was trying to point out to vince... thanks for popping in with the additional info ;)

    )\/(ark


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