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<body class='hmmessage'>Ideally, it would be nice if the receiving station stored the message until a working internet<BR>
connection became available, then it would complete the transmission.<BR>
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Terry<BR>
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> From: nate@natetech.com<BR>> To: drats_users@lists.danplanet.com<BR>> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:41:24 -0600<BR>> CC: drats_users@lists.danplanet.com<BR>> Subject: Re: [drats_users] D-RATS 0.2.8b1<BR>> <BR>> Maybe an on/off switch in the GUI if you know your ip connectivity <BR>> comes and goes? (laptop)<BR>> <BR>> --<BR>> Nate Duehr<BR>> Sent from my iPhone<BR>> <BR>> On Oct 28, 2008, at 14:38, Dan Smith <dsmith@danplanet.com> wrote:<BR>> <BR>> >> Last weekend we held a D-rats training session for our RACES group.<BR>> >> I encountered and interesting problem while trying to send an email<BR>> >> via another station. The other station didn't have a working<BR>> >> internet connection. I wanted to see what would happen if I sent the<BR>> >> other station an email destined for a hotmail account on the<BR>> >> internet. The other station completely locked up and we had to kill<BR>> >> the D-rats task via Task Manager to free things up.<BR>> ><BR>> > Okay, if there is really no network connection, it should time out<BR>> > immediately. This is really the operating system's job, so maybe<BR>> > Windows isn't doing the Right Thing (tm) here. In Linux, if there <BR>> > is no<BR>> > connection, it just immediately fails like you would expect.<BR>> ><BR>> > I don't control the timeout on a socket, so that's not really an <BR>> > option.<BR>> > What I can do is make it a thread so that it completes in the<BR>> > background instead of the GUI update thread.<BR>> ><BR>> > -- <BR>> > Dan Smith<BR>> > dsmith#danplanet.com, s/#/@/<BR>> > www.danplanet.com<BR>> > KK7DS<BR>> ><BR>> > _______________________________________________<BR>> > drats_users mailing list<BR>> > drats_users@lists.danplanet.com<BR>> > http://lists.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/drats_users<BR>> ><BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> drats_users mailing list<BR>> drats_users@lists.danplanet.com<BR>> http://lists.danplanet.com/mailman/listinfo/drats_users<BR><BR></body>
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