A few questions regarding 2.4

[misi01]

I'm seeing what seem to be some changes/discrepancies between 2.3 and 2.4(.1).

Here are some scenarios. I select a folder comparison, select a "directory" (PDS) and FTP to the mainframe for the left-hand pane and select NOTHING as the right folder (I want to compare to a file that's on the PC). I then receive the expected mainframe file results in the left-hand pane. If I then select one of them, I get an "Exception occurred 0016C425, access violation 042FD425, read of address 0".

If I (instead of selecting a file from the left-hand pane), I drill down in the right-hand pane on My computer until I reach a certain network drive, select this drive, then the files shown in the left-hand pane disappear !?!?!?.

One of the typical jobs I did (with 2.3) was to compare a mainframe PDS member with the corresponding PC file to see which was "newest". This no longer seems doable with 2.4.

I should mention (though) I'm sure it's irrelevant, that I inserted the lines of code I found somewhere that were supposed to disallow the "save password" checkbox (btw, this no longer SEEMS to work either).

[Chris]

The main change with version 2.4 and newer is the change in the default FTP library from Indy 9 to SmartFTP.

Does the problem go away in 2.4.1 if you switch back to using Indy 9 in the FTP>Advanced section of Tools|Options? You'll need to View|Full Refresh for the change to take effect.

[misi01]

Unfortunately no - same abend address. I also deliberately uninstalled 2.3 and 2.4.1 and reinstalled to be on the safe side.

[Chris]

Please email me with a log of the problematic connection.

To turn on logging, select View|Log|Verbose.

To save the log, right click on the green log pane and select "Save to File".

Send the log to support@scootersoftware.com and I'll look into this further.

[misi01]

Will do, but I'm dubious as to whether it'll help. The trouble is that as soon as I select a PDS member, I get a prompt for the code page, and I just discovered that even if I press Cancel on the code page window, I still get the abend above. (also, nothing that I can see is added to the log from the actual selection of the member) Nonetheless, the log text is on its way.

Just curious, it's probably irrelevant, is the PDS variable or fixed length records?

Graham.