[drats_users] Pictures

[Nate Duehr]

On Apr 25, 2009, at 10:06 PM, Arnold Harding wrote:

>>> Did the picture compressor from version 0.2 make it somewhere in  
>>> 0.3?
>>> If so, where?
>>
>> Yep.  If you try to upload a picture file (.jpg or the like) it will
>> automatically pop up the picture tool.
>>
>
> a)
> OK, so I sent a picture from one computer to the other.  The  
> original was 1136 KB, and the compressed file that got sent ends up  
> as 16.8 KB (attached).  It seemed to be going fairly smoothly,  
> considering the repeater I'm using is 60 miles away, and I am cross- 
> banding back to myself.  At 99% sent, there were 10 error blocks,  
> and I believe that's reasonable considering the distance.
> But then it sat there, and did nothing for several minutes.   
> Something was hitting the hard disk on the sending computer, and  
> some communications program was taking around 10% of the processor  
> power (Task Manager information).  Then D-RATS finally gave the  
> message of "Transfer Interrupted".
> I then re-sent the same picture with the same compression, and it  
> completed fairly quickly.  This is almost an identical issue I saw  
> last weekend when I was in the middle of nowhere....  D-RATS  
> appeared to have died.

I've also seen this "hang" once with a result of "Transfer  
Interrupted" during a file transfer with another local station.  We  
were both able to continuously text chat just find throughout the  
"hang", so it was something stuck in the file transfer itself.  Not  
sure what it was, and I didn't report it, since a re-send had the file  
go through fine, Dan.  If I see it again, I'll get you logs.

> b)  Both D-RATS computer's Chat windows are filled with "Now Online:  
> Online (D-RATS)".  It seems as if it must be part of the handshake,  
> but it doesn't seem necessary in the Chat window (unless it was  
> already decided to do it that way).

Haven't seen this one yet.

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Nate Duehr
nate at natetech.com