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rea 25-26 nor rea 28 nor rea 30-31 nor rea 33 nor rea 41 nor rea 43-44 nor ************ Topic 25 Sun Jul 18, 1993 YLR.ROSE (Forwarded) Sub: MNP with GEnie connection This is the place to ask for help with MNP codes and use with GEnie. 8 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 8, Topic 25 Message 2 Sun Jul 18, 1993 CMD-DOUG (Forwarded) Turn off XON/XOFF handshaking. It is known to cause problems with MNP. If at all possible, you should CTS/RTS handshaking with MNP modems, though the only program I know that is capable of that is Dialogue 128. ------------ Category 8, Topic 25 Message 4 Mon Jul 19, 1993 HOWIE-CBM (Forwarded) Rose, Modems running MNP take a bit more time when they first connect, before they actually begin talking with a host modem. This is because the two modems are trying to reach an understanding as to which protocol they both will use. As it applies to the HHH prob, I'd suggest a slight delay before sending out the HHH. I usually have my script wait one *and* one-half (1 1/2) seconds before sending out the HHH, or you might have it wait for a "CONNECT 9600", or whatever, before transmitting the HHH. Howie ------------ Category 8, Topic 25 Message 5 Mon Jul 19, 1993 A.TOLLE [Color64-Tony] (Forwarded) I have noticed that when using MNP, data compression MUST be enabled for GEnie to let you log on correctly. The modem should be set to reliable mode with data compression ON. Then when you call, watch the CD (carrier detect) light on the modem... As soon as CD is detected, type the hhh characters. You should get the U#= prompt after that. Even though data compression doesn't improve things much, it still has to be enabled for the logon sequence to operate correctly. ------------ Category 8, Topic 25 Message 7 Tue Jul 20, 1993 HOWIE-CBM (Forwarded) Rose, Everytime Dialogue dials GEnie, the Supra sets itself to MNP4. When I want to download with Dialogue, I usually enter an M625;3, to get to the Commodore 64/128 Library. I then select the option to download files, and enter all the file numbers or names, seperated by comas, and wait for Genie to tell me it is ready to send its batch of files. I then press Comkey D, run/stop, and Dialogue proceeds to download the batch of files with its y-modem. Are you doing something different? :) Howie ------------ ************ Topic 26 Sun Jul 04, 1993 G.MORANEC at 02:48 EDT Sub: BBS Callers Digest New source for Commodore support! 4 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 8, Topic 26 Message 1 Sun Jul 04, 1993 G.MORANEC at 02:52 EDT Beginning with the August 1993 issue, BBS Callers Digest will have a Commodore computing column called "Commodore Connections". I've watched this magazine for over a year now, and they are fast gaining a reputation for covering beginning to intermediate telecommunicating for ALL computer users, not just the PC folks. Check it out, and if you have any suggestions for the column, leave me E-mail. Please keep in mind that magazines articles are written about 3 months before they see "print". ------------ Category 8, Topic 26 Message 2 Sun Jul 04, 1993 C.OGLE2 [breadstick] at 08:17 EDT A couple of quick, and hopefully non-critical questions about this... First, where can somebody get a copy of BBS Callers Digest. Is it available in most book stores, or mainly subscriptions, or is it in text format? Second, it has been my experience that when somebody advertises as having "Commodore Support", it usually means Amigas. Is this for sure 8-bits, or just all Commies. Tanks...er thanks Scott ------------ Category 8, Topic 26 Message 3 Sun Jul 04, 1993 C128.JBEE at 14:33 EDT Yes, where can you pick it up? All I ever see is BoardWatch. ------------ Category 8, Topic 26 Message 4 Thu Jul 22, 1993 G.MORANEC at 00:23 EDT Waldensoftware stores carry BBS Callers Digest, and most bookstores that carry computer magazines. It can be ordered from the magazine (you know the standard subscription stuff...) Let me get the info out for you. 1 yr is $30 -- you can call 1-800-822-0437 8am-4pm EST Mon-Fri and charge it to your Visa or Mastercard. The address is: BBS Callers Digest 701 Stokes Rd. Medford, MJ 08055 Naturally, they have their own BBS, which the number is: 1-609-235-5297 - it's an IBM PCBoard BBS called "The Live Wire". In answer to the question of whether it's just Amiga support, the column I write is called Commodore Connections, and it is strictly C64/128 stuff, geared towards beginning and intermediate BBS Callers. I'm very pleased to be associated with this magazine, because they are not in anyway "computer snobs". They also have a MAC column, a senior citizens column, and I have seen Amiga columns. They are really trying to cover all computer types and all types of BBS callers. ------------ 8 ************ Topic 28 Thu Mar 10, 1994 C.THOMAS19 at 14:35 EST Sub: Volks 6470/6470 I just want to know why my Volks 6470 Rev A. modem wont work with this program, did I do somethin wrong? Also, I have a Avatex1200hc that wont work either. HELP!!! 1 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 8, Topic 28 Message 1 Thu Mar 10, 1994 CBM-MARK at 21:43 EST What term program are you trying to use? Very FEW programs do support the Volks 6470. Not sure about the Avatex. ------------ 8 ************ Topic 30 Mon Jun 06, 1994 T.FARRELL5 [12Paws] at 20:59 EDT Sub: Dialogue128--inverted RS-232 I seem to have an inverted RS-232 Iface. CD is lit when modem is off and out when on. How to fix? 0 message(s) total ************ ************ Topic 31 Thu Jun 09, 1994 F.NETTLES at 23:39 EDT Sub: Qlink Patch needed Help needed to disable the fastloader on the Qlink disk 1 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 8, Topic 31 Message 1 Thu Jun 09, 1994 F.NETTLES at 23:43 EDT Here's the deal - I'm setting up an Amiga (duck) for my daughter, and she _has_ to have Qlink, so I have bought the Questronix A64 emulator. Spoke with Questronics and it seems that the fastloader built into the QL program will not run with A64. However, there is supposedly a patch program on Qlink called "DCS" that, when d/loaded or copied onto the Qlink disk will disable the fastload. I am hoping I can get with someone here and send them a disk for this program? If anyone can help out, please drop me an Email as I don't get over here often.. thanks! Forrest ------------ 8 ************ Topic 33 Sun Jul 03, 1994 J.THERIAULT at 18:59 EDT Sub: List of ReSellers This is a place where you can post info. on places that sell stuff for the Commodore 64, 128, 128D, and the Amiga. This is mainly for people that turned to GEnie for support. 1 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 8, Topic 33 Message 1 Mon Jul 04, 1994 C128.JBEE at 03:51 EDT Topic cop: The proper topic for this is in Category 2 Topic 26. So I am going to close this topic. The other topic contains 75 messages so far! ------------ 8 ************ Topic 41 Sun Aug 21, 1994 R.NEAZER [Reub] at 20:12 EDT Sub: Hot News!! News about the Internet 6 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 8, Topic 41 Message 1 Sun Aug 21, 1994 R.NEAZER [Reub] at 20:13 EDT The following article was taken from the SUNDAY PARADE: HOT NEWS ON THE INTERNET Virtually anyone who has logged onto the Internet knows that the hottest topics for bulletin boards have to do with sex. The bulletin board most used is the rules for new users called 'news.announce.newusers', which drew 800,00 readers in a recent month. The next most popular bulletin board or newsgroup is the 'alt.sex.stories'. Half a million Internet users logged onto that one to write, read or download onto their home computers explicit stories about every aspect of sex imaginable, according to a newgroup list compiled by Digital Equipment Corp. The next most popular category was found by calling up 'alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.natch': In this bulletin board, 450,000 readers requested the chance to scan or download explicit images. Next on the list was 'alt.sex', a discusion group in which people talk about sexual issues(440,000). And some 420,000 readers logged onto the 'news.answers' bulletin board to learn about frequently asked questions. (Newcomers who ask these questions irritate the old timers, who will send them "flames" - messages in all capital letters meant as shouts that mean: "Don't waste out time!"). Another 380,000 readers wanted jokes through rec.humor.funny, and 370,000 wanted more sex stories via 'rec.arts.erotica', which offers literary and less graphic fare. ......PERVERTS!!! - That's was taken from the article :) ------------ Category 8, Topic 41 Message 2 Sun Aug 21, 1994 CMD-DOUG at 23:40 EDT Interesting note: The local board I use to access the newsgroups just dropped all the alt.sex and .binaries groups to ward off any future prosecution. It appears that, as the Internet grows, more attention is being drawn to such areas which can be accessed by someone of ANY AGE... I'm betting there'll be lawsuits flying before long. ------------ Category 8, Topic 41 Message 3 Mon Aug 22, 1994 CBM-ED [e.g.bell] at 03:06 EDT I'm sure you're right Doug... and equally sure the ACLU will come down feet first in defense of all of this stuff regardless of who can access it. ------------ Category 8, Topic 41 Message 4 Mon Aug 22, 1994 C128.JBEE at 03:10 EDT It is no secret that XXX files and the people that want them, have help drive the IBM PC home market for better and better graphics and more and more storage. Probably as much as Windows. No surprise that INET is any different. 800,000 .... The Information Super "tHigh" way ? ------------ Category 8, Topic 41 Message 5 Mon Aug 22, 1994 H.HERMAN1 at 08:21 EDT And naive me always thought that the computer newsgroups were the crowd pleasers..... :) Howie ------------ Category 8, Topic 41 Message 6 Fri Aug 26, 1994 L.SCHONDER [C128.LOU] at 00:41 EDT I'm a text man myself. (Any IPaint stuff?) ------------ 8 ************ Topic 43 Tue Aug 30, 1994 T.FARRELL5 [12Paws] at 21:19 EDT Sub: Desterm setup problem 13 message(s) total. ************ ------------ Category 8, Topic 43 Message 1 Tue Aug 30, 1994 T.FARRELL5 [12Paws] at 21:27 EDT How do I get Desterm to save the new config file after I set it up? From a submenu I select save setup but there is no drive activity. The screen says saving... but nothing happens. Is this program crippleware so that you cannot save until the shareware fee is paid? I set up as ANSI and got on GEnie fine but all I got from CompuServe was garbage on the screen. Oh well, couldn't save the setup anyway. I also have Dialogue 128 v2.2d but every time I auto dial from the phone- book, I get connected then the screen locks up.Any help with these problems would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Tom ------------ Category 8, Topic 43 Message 2 Wed Aug 31, 1994 CBM-ED [e.g.bell] at 02:32 EDT You should be able to save your configuration file with DesTerm. Check your device settings. Perhaps that is the problem. ------------ Category 8, Topic 43 Message 3 Wed Aug 31, 1994 THE.OUTLAW at 17:16 EDT Tom - >How do I get Desterm to save the new config file after I set it up? From a >submenu I select save setup but there is no drive activity. The screen says >saving... but nothing happens. >Is this program crippleware so that you cannot save until the When saving the setup, did you have your User device and Desterm Device set the same? (the drive the Desterm disk is in) If not this could be your problem. When you save the setup, the 1st window you should see appear is FILENAME:des.setup. The next window will say saving BUT NO drive activity. The system will see that your replacing the same file name and a window will appear asking you to choose either DON'T REPLACE or REPLACE FILE. Choose replace file and then you will see drive activity. Desterm is not crippleware. BTW, you will want to choose ASCII for term emulation, not ANSI. >I also have Dialogue 128 v2.2d but every time I auto dial from the >phone- book, I get connected then the screen locks up.Any help with these >problems would be greatly appreciated. I'm not sure what the problem is without more detail. Could you explain your set up? What emulation etc. ------------ Category 8, Topic 43 Message 4 Thu Sep 01, 1994 T.FARRELL5 [12Paws] at 19:34 EDT The drive config was the problem, OUTLAW, thanks for the info. I saved the setup file and when I went to go online just now, as the program was loading I got Mr. Desmonds photos then got bumped back to a ready prompt. Oh well, guess I gotta start over. If I use ANSI emulation won't I be able to see any IBM graphics that I encounter? Online Photos? I set Dialogue up in ASCII emulation If I go to terminal mode and type ATDT******* I go online just fine if I try to use the auto-dial function Dialogue connects then the screen locks up. Any special settings I should make? Also, I noticed that the carrier detect in the status line is on before I autodial and off when I connect. Thanks for your help. Tom ------------ Category 8, Topic 43 Message 5 Thu Sep 01, 1994 CBM-ED [e.g.bell] at 19:53 EDT 12Paws: 12> If I use ANSI emulation won't I be able to see any IBM graphics 12> that I encounter Yes, but you aren't going to encounter many here on GEnie, and ANSI emulation causes a problem with the delete key. Remember that that function sends a sequence of characters to the remote to cause a backspace/delete, whereas GEnie, and any non-ANSI board, will require only 1 character. What you should do is set up a config file for GEnie which is ASCII mode, and an ANSI setup for those boards you call that support ANSI graphics. 12> the carrier detect in the status line is on before I autodial 12> and off when I connect Your modem probably defaults to sensing carrier all the time. You need to send the command that forces it to follow the true state of carrier. The command is usually something like 'at &c1'. What may also be the ccase, tho I don't use Dialogue so I don't know, is that Dialogue may need you to tell it if the mask bit is 'on' or 'off'... it may also be labelled as 'inverted' or something similar. This would also cause what you describe... namely sensing carrier where there is none. If you are using a 1670, this is possible... the 1670 recognizes a different bit state in terms of carrier detect.... not sure if it expects it to be on or off when carrier is present, but whichever, it is exactly the opposite of 'Hayes compatible' modems. ------------ Category 8, Topic 43 Message 6 Fri Sep 02, 1994 THE.OUTLAW at 00:38 EDT I'll have to dig into my Dialogue program to see what the modem string looks like... Ed probably has the solution with the &c1 part of the string. I'll get back to you by the end of the weekend :> ------------ Category 8, Topic 43 Message 7 Tue Sep 06, 1994 T.FARRELL5 [12Paws] at 20:10 EDT I setup Desterm again. I can connect okay, but I get character from the host that resemble Russian characters. I loaded the character set for normal commodore ASCII communication. What did I mess up this time? ------------ Category 8, Topic 43 Message 8 Tue Sep 06, 1994 THE.OUTLAW at 21:23 EDT Tom, you want ASCII not CBM for GEnie. You should see in the status line, upper right, ASCII. :> ------------ Category 8, Topic 43 Message 9 Wed Sep 07, 1994 T.FARRELL5 [12Paws] at 19:24 EDT I do see ASCII on the status line but when I try to get on compuserve all I get is cryptic looking characters that zig-zag from the upper left to the lower right with each <RETURN> keypress.Did I forget a translation table or something? Gosh! I thought Commodore wasn't a complicated machine to use , after these two programs, I can't wait to go to work so I can use Windows 3.1!!! Thanks again for trying to help ------------ Category 8, Topic 43 Message 10 Wed Sep 07, 1994 THE.OUTLAW at 20:31 EDT Tom, ASCII is for GEnie. I don't have a clue about compuserve. The only thing I can suggest, is changing the emulation while online and see what happens. :> ------------ Category 8, Topic 43 Message 11 Thu Sep 08, 1994 H.HERMAN1 at 03:43 EDT 12Paws, In both instances, here on GEnie, and on CompuServe, change your terminal settings so that they are 7 E 1, not 8 N 0. That should do it! :) Howie ------------ Category 8, Topic 43 Message 12 Wed Sep 14, 1994 I.MCKINNEY [TheBigMac] at 02:46 EDT One more note as to CompuServe settings. Use VT-102 instead of ASCII and once you logon, type GO DEFALT (right, spell it wrong) and follow the prompts. P.S. I believe this will help you customize your system. I got off CS a few months ago so my memory on how to do it is kind of vague. ------------ Category 8, Topic 43 Message 13 Sun Sep 25, 1994 T.FARRELL5 [12Paws] at 19:40 EDT Thanks to everyone who responded to my questions. I felt that Dialogue 128 was an ideal program that is why I Bought it. Having never been able to get the auto- dialer to work, ( and all the frustration I endured), I current- ly feel it is the worst piece of code I ever bought. Thanks for all of your offers of help, but this is the last straw for me, I'm going to turn to IBM or a MAC during the Christmas sales. I use an IBM w/windows 3.1 at work so it won't be exactly culture shock. I've enjoyed my 2-128's and 2-64's very much, and have met the nicest people here. (The MAC people seem to argue with each other more than try help find solutions to a fellow computerist's problem) Commodore people are always helpful Thanks, Again! Tom Farrell ------------ ************ Topic 44 Wed Aug 31, 1994 C.HANNA at 21:09 EDT Sub: prometheus, promodem 2400....HELP! I have a promodem 2400 but no manuual. What are the 10 dip switchs unvder e underneath? I have a userport interface. no name on interface. con you or anyone help find info? 0 message(s) total ************ 8