Overview
This page summarizes any known issues that might be encountered by our packet users. The integrated packet installer and all of its components are covered.
Integrated System (including installer)
- MS Windows Compatibility Note:
- Windows 10 or 11 is recommended
- Windows 7 or greater is required for auto-printing
- Windows 8.1 or earlier is not supported (you are on your own using older versions)
- As always, we recommend using a currently supported version of Windows. At the current time, this means Windows 10 or Windows 11.
- The integrated system (Outpost and PackItForms) is supported on Windows 10 or later.
- It may also work (without auto-printing of add-on message types, like PackItForms) on Windows XP and Vista. But we have very limited ability to test and will no longer support these platforms. Any support is on a best-effort basis.
- It does NOT work on Windows 2000 and earlier versions of Windows.
Outpost
- MS Windows can cause Outpost to be blocked while waiting on PDF printer filename
- Using a PDF pseudo-printer is common for testing purposes. It may also be used for creating a permanent record of the final format messages.
- When printing to a PDF pseudo-printer, the MS Windows Operating System blocks the calling program while it waits on the user to select a PDF filename. If this happens during an Outpost Send/Receive session, Outpost is prevented from continuing, including the Send/Receive session. If the user does not enter a filename within the BBS session timeout, then when Outpost resumes, the Send/Receive session will have timed out.
- Workaround: When using a PDF pseudo-printer, enter the filename when prompted.
- Resolution: Outpost will be updated in a future release to include an intermediate program that can be blocked by the Operating System while allowing Outpost to continue running.
PackItForms
- Compatibility Note: Submit via E-mail
- The "Submit via E-mail" feature works with MS Outlook, Windows 10 Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird, Eudora OSE
- It does NOT work with older/original Eudora (v7.1.0.9 and earlier), which was discontinued in 2006. If an "&" (ampersand) appears anywhere in a message submitted to Eudora, a bug in Eudora causes it to drop all content from the "&" to the end of the message, rendering the message unreadable by the recipient.
- In recent versions of PackItForms, manual operation (without using Outpost) creates an ICS-309 comm log that doesn't allow dates in October. Such dates (with month number 10) are shown as invalid, with a red outline around the field. Consequently the log can't be printed or converted to a CSV file.
This bug will be fixed in PackItForms version 3.14, Until then, you can fix it by editing your copy of C:\PackItForms\Outpost\SCCo\bin\manual-log.html as shown here.
- Visible focus is present, but it's hard to see. (Certainly it doesn't conform to WCAG.) For example in Chrome, focus is indicated by a very thin white outline, nearly invisible.
In PackItForms version 3.14, the buttons' focus indicator will be more visible. Version 3.14 will also change the tab order of the buttons at the top of the page, to left-to-right. You can make the same changes in your installed 3.13 version, by editing files within C:\PackItForms\Outpost\SCCo\pack-it-forms\resources. The specific changes are here and here.
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This page was last updated on 21-Oct-2023