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- These are some troubleshooting hints, as well as general hints. Please feel
- free to send me any additions you would like to have added to this file.
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- Problem: BShow hangs right after displaying "Viewing: FILE.XYZ"
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- Suggestion: Make sure that for all of the "list=" lines in the
- configuration file, there is a "> %listfile%" or something.
- There must be some statement that redirects the archivers
- output to the file associated with %listfile%.
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- Problem: I always get "NO FILES" on my file listing.
-
- Suggestion: Make sure that there is enough memory for the archiver to
- operate. If necessary, enable the swapping command (swap=1
- in the configuration file).
-
-
- Problem: It takes a LONG time for the file listing to start after I type
- a filename, or number.
-
- Suggestion: Yell at the author of the file compressor to speed things up a
- bit... :) You may be wondering why I didn't include the
- extraction mechanisms internally in BShow. Well...
-
- BShow was designed to work FOREVER as an archive viewer.
- Obviously, that's a long time, and I don't exepct it to last,
- but you need to let a program do what it's designed to do.
- The compressor is designed to compress and extract, so that's
- what I let it do.
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- If you can't convince the author to speed up his/her program,
- trash the program :) (not), and get a faster computer. (double
- not). A faster computer will speed things up considerably.
- The BBS that did all the alpha testing is run on a 486-33 so
- it seems pretty speedy there. You guys with 8088's, well, good
- luck. :)
-
-
- Problem: I have this really guilty feeling about using this program
- without having registered it or some such thing!
-
- Suggestion: Well, if you are a shareware author, you could send me
- a copy of your latest project, or if you are a BBS SysOp,
- you could give me access to your board -- are you
- listening Compu$erve? :) Of course, any suggestions are
- MUCH appreciated as I plan to keep improving BShow and
- maybe someday go commercial! (JUST KIDDING!!!!) If you
- have NOTHING else to offer other than money, well donate
- some to your favorite charity in my name (or yours,
- don't really matter). That'll give you AND me a good feeling
- inside... :)
-