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- Notes for using PAS38.DO with Flash.....8-14-88
-
- First, don't be alarmed... Mike has a bug in the sort routine when you
- sort by the city Node. Fortunately, the program does dial the correct
- city, and write the PASNODE.DAT file as advertised. I was worried when
- I clicked on Denver, and it said it was dialing Miami.
-
- ACHTUNG! BEWARE! CAUTION: Do not delete the command in the 'do' file that
- looks like this:
-
- >OPEN BLK:|
-
- Since Alan Page decided to leave the file open, the only way to close
- the PASNODE.DAT file is to open another file or in this example, the
- buffer. Since the buffer is closed at this point, no harm done. It just
- closes the file. The reason this is critical, is that without the
- >OPEN BLK:| command a new PASNODE.DAT file will be added to your directory
- each time PAS38 is used to dial a city. I was busy patting myself on the
- back for my great 'do' file, and found 15 copies of PASNODE.DAT, in my
- Flash directory. When I dialed another city, it always loaded the first
- PASNODE.DAT file in the directory. Hopefully, if you read these docs.
- you won't have to experience the problems I encountered.
-
-
- The gremlin is in his resource file, which could easily be fixed if you
- knew for sure which columns he is attempting to sort. I may play with
- it later and send Mike a good resource file... [Grin]
-
- Mike never bothered responding to the E-Mail that I left him on COAST,
- but it appears that he did adopt my suggestion for writing out the
- PASNODE.DAT file. PAS38.DO reads this file into $A and then renames
- $A to $A.DIR and loads the appropriate directory for dialing the boards
- for the connected node.
-
- Important!
- Leave your modem set for the Hayes mode, unless you are using a Racal-
- Vadic modem yourself.
- If you already have my GWPCPD11.ARC file, simply copy Mike's PAS38.PRG,
- PAS38.RSC, and my PAS38.DO file into your Flash directory. Set one or
- two (if you have a Telenet 2400 outdial) of your function keys that aren't
- being used as follows:
-
- >DP C:\FLASH\|>LO CO RV12.CNF|>EXEC PAS38|
- >DP C:\FLASH\|>LO CO RV24.CNF|>EXEC PAS38|
-
- It will access the same DIRPCP folder that you are alredy using, without
- any modifications. If you don't have my GWPCPD11.ARC file and you are
- a Flash user, get it....... You may like it better than the PAS38 system.
- If you are not a Flash user, call one of the Forem ST boards and use
- ARCDL to extract the file DIRPCP.ARC. It should be dearced into a folder
- named DIRPCP inside your Flash directory.
-
- As always, my path names in the function key definitions, and the 'do'
- file assume that you have a hard drive and your Flash directory is on C:
- Simply modify the path names to make it work with your system.
-
- Mike Lewis has put a lot of time and effort in writing this autodialer,
- so please tell him a "Thanks" when you call the COAST BBS in San
- Francisco. He may have fixed the sort problem by now, and that is the
- only flaw that I can find with it at the present time. Anyone that can
- write a program that powerful, can easily fix that little problem.
-
-
- Mark Asbell- Ft. Bliss, Tx
- (915-566-9100)
-