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B E S U R E T O R E A D T H I S F I L E This file contains information concerning each of the new versions of K9X. All changes up to and including version 7.00 are now included in the various DOC files. All newer than v7.00 changes/additions covered in this file replace any information contained in K9X.DOC dealing with the same subject(s). Since new features are added and old features are changing, this entire file should be reviewed (along with the K9X.DOC file(s)) before attempting to use K9X. Most of the problems encountered are due to users not reading the documentation before "diving in". K9X is an intricate piece of software with many features other comm programs only "dream of having"! Even if you are fortunate enough to get it up and running, you will more than likely miss out on alot of features that would make your modeming life alot easier! Please take the time to read the documentation! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - K9X v4.01 - v4.37 K9X v4.40 Dated Feb01,1987 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ (including K9WX.COM v1.25) This version introduces another FIRST for the DOG!!! The addition of an all new transfer protocol... The Dog's OWN **FAST** K9Xmodem Protocol! The file K9WY.COM has been added and contains the new protocol. K9X v4.50 Dated Feb11,1987 K9X v4.52 Dated Feb15,1987 K9X v5.00 Dated Feb28,1987 K9X v5.01 Dated Mar12,1987 K9X v5.02 Dated Mar15,1987 K9X v5.10 Dated Mar21,1987 K9X v5.11 Dated Apr27,1987 K9X v6.00 Dated May15,1987 K9X v6.00 Dated May24,1987 K9X v6.10 Dated July 24, 1987 (Both ShareWare and Host Versions) K9X v6.10A Dated August 13, 1987 (Both ShareWare and Host Versions) K9XHOST v6.10B Dated August 27, 1987 (Host Version Only) K9XHOST v6.10C Dated September 03, 1987 (Host Version Only) K9X v6.10G Dated September 29, 1987 (Host Version Only) K9XCNF v6.10H Dated September 29, 1987 (Host Version Only) K9WX, K9WY, COLORWX and COLORWY v1.42 Dated September 29, 1987 K9X v7.00 Dated April 15, 1988 (Both ShareWare and Host Versions) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The total package - incuding documentaton - has been reworked The K9X ShareWare version has been updated to mirror the new Registered version. K9X v7.01 Dated May 05, 1988 (Registered Version) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Added the facility to send an Escape character (ASCII 27) while operating in Expert mode. This function is now part of the normal keyboard scanning operation of K9X and is activated via the standard Escape Key. K9X v7.02 Dated June 20, 1988 (Registered Version) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ K9X now keeps tab of a number of session totals: Total number of files downloaded from system called Displayed during while downloading using an internal K9X protocol This total is logged to CALL.LOG after disconnect from remote system Total number of bytes for files downloaded from system called Displayed during while downloading using an internal K9X protocol This total is logged to CALL.LOG after disconnect from remote system Accumulated total number of files downloaded during session Displayed during while downloading using an internal K9X protocol This total is logged to CALL.LOG after disconnect from remote system Accumulated total number of bytes for files downloaded during session Displayed during while downloading using an internal K9X protocol This total is logged to CALL.LOG when K9X is exited back to DOS Total Elapsed Online Session time (actually connected to a remote system) Logged to CALL.LOG after disconnect from remote system This total is logged to CALL.LOG when K9X is exited back to DOS Total Elapsed Online Long Distance Session time K9X counts the number of digits in the phone number it just dialed. If the phone number contains more than 7 digits, K9X considers it a long distance call and tabulates the online session time. This total is logged to CALL.LOG when K9X is exited back to DOS It should be noted that K9X simply checks the existance of the downloaded file and its "saved" size. If the transfer was aborted, the partial file will exist and K9X will use its partial size in the totals. The total bytes received/sent is now "rolled" during file transfers using one of the internal K9X protocols. This was done to ease the monotony while using Ymodem! A minor bug in the download buffer tabulation has been corrected. There were times when the tabulation would result in a minus number. This had no effect on the actual file transfer, it is simply a means of notifying you of the position of the buffer pointer... anyway, it has been corrected! K9X v8.00.1 - Production Version - dated 8/15/88 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There are a few major changes in the version, mostly to accomodate 9600/19200 connects... In order to speed up character processing, I have removed the internal ANSI processing (except for music). You MUST include the line DEVICE=ANSI.SYS in your CONFIG.SYS as K9X now passes all ANSI escape sequences, except for any music, to the DOS ANSI.SYS driver. Three new protocol types have been added... they are Zmodem Batch Mode (for use with PCBoard ProDoors, Zmodem's Ymodem-G (for use with PCBoard ProDoors) and Qmodem Ymodem-G (for use with RBBS Ymodem-G). In the case of Zmodem's Ymodem-G, you will need to register DSZ in order to activate this protocol within the DSZ module... or use an older version (pre register-to-activate) of DSZ.COM Along with addition of the new protocols, I had to change the way K9X handles the sending of the auto-down filenames (via cut and paste Alt-Tab feature). Various PCBoard Batch Protocol Doors require different command structures to set up multiple files transfers. One variation requires the D command, then the specification of a protocol and then finally the filename(s) entered one at a time on separate lines... Another requires the D command, then the protocol specification, and then finally the filename(s) stacked on one command line and separated by a space or semi-colon. To this end, I have modified K9X to only send the filename to the Host system - without a carriage return. This allows you to use either Batch method with the K9X cut and paste feature. If you have been using the K9X auto-down feature this new method will take a little getting used to but still saves alot of agrevation! The sequence here is to manually enter the D command, then select the protocol, then simply hit the down-arrow key to have K9X feed the filenames to the host system. If you are using the one filename per line DOOR, simple hit Enter after each filename is sent... If you are using the stack on one line DOOR, enter the space separator and then send the next filename to the host. When you have setup the host for the transfers, simply hit the down-arrow key (expert mode) and K9X will go directly into Batch mode without prompting for any filenames. Note that this modification is only in effect when the Batch Zmodem, DSZ Ymodem-G protocols are used. The use of any of the "one file at a time" protocols work the same as before. Note also that K9X will not be able to log any file transfer results to your session log. For this reason, you may want to set the environment variable for DSZ by including the line SET DSZLOG=C:\K9X\DSZ.LOG in your AUTOEXEC.BAT K9X v8.00.2 - Production Version - dated 9/10/88 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ K9X Host will no longer be supported or distributed. Since the Host mode is no longer supported, there is no "pressing" need for the K9X.COM front end menu... so that too, has been eliminated. Lastly, the K9X Editor has been integrated back into the body of K9X! Maximum number of lines for the editor has been reduced from 250 to 200. These modifications are in prelude to the release my full BBS program, MiniNet in several stages of operation. Those users who have already registered the K9X Host module will have the opportunity to Register any one of the various MiniNet stages at a discount. K9X changes: Cleared up a couple of serious bugs in the dial / redial / manual dial section. Modified the color reset code to accurately reset the colors to your default settings. Added the color reset to the Clear Screen (Alt-C) routine. Modified the session logging to include both transfer time and CPS rate (when using K9X internal protocols). Since neither the QMXFER or KERMIT module supports 19200bps, I've modified these two routines to set the baud rate to 9600 for both 9600 and 19200. The entering modem paramaters are saved before the reset and and the modem is restored to its entering stage after access to these two modules. I have not checked this out at 19200, but they should work! K9X v8.00.3 - Production Version - dated 11/23/88 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There are a few new features in this latest offering The Alt_O command has been added. When toggled, K9X becomes a pure "dumb terminal" allowing you to interface with door programs found on many BBS. This allows you to send all of the Function keys, cursor and other number pad keys, etc. If any extended code keys are pressed while in the Open_Door mode, K9X will send both the first Null and the extended key code. This is true for all extended keys except for the Alt_O. This remains active as a K9X command so that you can get back into the full K9X Command set mode. Although you can set this toggle at any time, if you set it while online, K9X will turn off the Open_Door mode when carrier is dropped. Note that the Open_Door mode is only accessible when in Expert mode. K9X now supports the CIS/B transfer protocol. The Alt_8 expert command key will activate the external OZBEXT.EXE (renamed to CIS.EXE) module in terminal mode. The parameters passed to CIS.EXE will be displayed prior to its execution. If you want to change these parameters, you may do so by renaming CIS.EXE to OZBEXT.EXE and create a CIS.BAT file that will call the module with whatever paramters you prefer (see the CIS.TXT file for additional parameters). Since K9X will automatically pass the required parameters (port, speed, etc.), the CIS.BAT file will simply have to discard the -v -x parameters and substitute your preferred parameters. K9X now supports the PC-Pursuit Dialer ICEX. The Alt_9 expert command key (and its equivilent in the Command Gateway Menu System) will activate the external ICEX.EXE module. A new script command parameter has been added giving K9X the capability of executing ICEX directly from a dialing directory macro. The command paramter is <P> and it must appear in the "look for" portion of the macro line. Don't quote me as I've never used PCPursuit... but your PCP.K9X macro will look something like... CONNECT`~|| @`C PURSUIT,<your id>,<your password>| @`<P> The initial CONNECT "look for" is the response from your modem upon connecting with the PCP host. The "send" portion of this line consists of a 1 second pause (~) followed by sending 2 carriage returns (||). As is the case with all K9X macros, the ` character represents the separator between the "look for" and "send" portions of each macro line. Please refer to the ICEX doc files for use of the ICEX program. Note that any registration fees for the use of ICEX are not covered as part of the registration fee of K9X. If you plan on using ICEX on a regular basis, please support the author of that program and register your copy. K9X now supports all 12 of the SuperK protocols! The old K9WX and K9WY.COM files are no longer supported or required. The Jmodem Batch and SuperK protocols are handled in the same manner as described in then Zmodem Batch section above. Facility has been made to specify multiple filenames when sending (uploading) files using any of the SuperK Batch Protocols or the JBatch Jmodem Batch mode. Simply input your filenames with each seperated by a space... Full paths may be used for each filespec... Let's say you wish to send three files in one batch and the files reside in three different directories... FILE_1.ARC resides in your C:\FOO directory FILE_2.ARC resides in your C:\BAR directory FILE_3.ARC resides in your C:\TODAY directory After setting up the upload on the BBS, select the K9X upload command (Expert or Command Gateway). Input the three filenames as: C:\FOO\FILE_1.ARC C:\BAR\FILE_2.ARC C:\TODAY\FILE_3.ARC Again, use of wildcards are not allowed when specifying multiple filenames. Wildcards are supported only when the wildcard is used in a single filespec... valid: send AB1.ARC, AB2.ARC, AB3.ARC and ABSOLUTE.ARC all residing in C:\DLS filespec would be C:\DLS\AB*.ARC or C:\DLS\AB*.* invalid: send same as above - where filespec is C:\DLS\AB?.ARC C:\ABSOL*.ARC You may also specify multiple filenames while using Zmodem in batch mode. Simply enter the filenames (with or without a full path). Use a space between each filename. In both cases, if a single filespec is specified during Batch uploads and the filespec is not the "@C:filelist" and does not already include a drive specifier, K9X will append the default download path (if one is specified in K9X.CNF) to the filespec. In all cases, if no path is supplied with the filename(s), K9X will first look for the specified files in the default upload directory. Since MiniNet has outgrown the K9X/K9X.LST autodownload, K9X no longer supports this feature. I think you will find the new SuperK batch protocols far superior to the old K9X.LST download process! When listing new files on a BBS, most ask for a start date with the default being the last time you logged on to that system. With this in mind, K9X now displays the following dialing directory information when online: Name of system dialed (or "Manual Dial" if that's the case) System's phone number Last on date and time (or "N/A" if manual dialing) Default transfer protocol (changes if you manually change protocol) This information will be displayed within the Expert Command Summary Menu or directly on the screen when the Command GateWay Main Menu is activated. If you are currently running an earlier registered version of K9X, be sure to run K9XCNF at the DOS prompt so that the new K9X.CNF paramters will be written to your current K9X.CNF The new K9X.CNF paramters are: SL=1 session logging upon startup (0=no 1=yes) MV=VOICE modem voice connect response NT=NO DIAL TONE modem no dial tone response RB=0 reset modem to follow connect (0=no 1=yes) UQ=1 use QMXFER (0=use DSZ's QMXFER emulation 1=use QMXFER) HO=0 multitasking hook (0=no 1=yes) US=1 use SuperK protocols (0=no 1=yes) K9X v8.00.4 - Production Version - dated 12/03/88 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ K9X now supports a 24 filename upload buffer (ala the cut and paste download buffer). It works identically to the cut and paste download buffer, but in the opposite direction and... where the download cut and paste is accessed directly from the main terminal mode, the upload cut and paste is accessed through the file manipulation section. This operation will take a little explaining! To upload a group of files... 1) Access the File Manipulation Section via the Expert Alt-F (or Command Gateway Menu Files/Files Manipulation) command. 2) Select the "Select Files" option 3) Input a FileSpec as you would in K9XFetch (see the K9XFetch docs for further information on search criteria).... In short, if you want to use the Fetch File Finder, prefix your filespec with a forward slash... as: /A*.ARC or /*.ARC or /MYFILE.* 4) Use the Shift-Tab to activate the Upload Buffer Marking Routine. Once activated, you may use the cursor keys to move the cursor up/down, Home and End keys to move to the top or bottom of the screen, or the M key to Mark a filename. 5) Simply hit the Enter key to exit back to the Files Manipulation menu 6) Exit this menu back to the terminal mode. 7) Now... let's assume you are online with a host system... After selecting the U)pload option, all that is required is to hit the Up arrow key. K9X will send the first filename to the host system! If the host accepts multiple filenames on a single line, hit the space bar and send the next filename (via the up arrow key)... and so on... If the host does not accept multiple filenames on a single line, simply hit your Enter key, wait for the prompt for the next filename, hit the Up Arrow key, Hit Enter, wait for prompt... and so on... 8) When you have finished sending the filenames (all or part of the full marked list) to the host and the host has acknowledged that it is ready to receive the files, simply hit the PgUp key, enter 3 forward slashes (///) for a filename and hit your Enter key. K9X will then locate each file and append the full path to the buffer filename, writing the resultant to the file K9XBATCH.LST. When it has compelted this task, K9X will automatically begin the Batch transfer. 9) Upon completion (or abort), K9X will remove the "used" filenames from the Upload Mark Buffer thus readying any remaining filenames for processing. There are several other options available while in the Filename Search Mark mode (Edit, Save, Load, Clear, etc)... these options work identically to their counterparts in either K9XFetch or K9X Cut and Paste Download mode. Since this new Upload Buffer uses the Up Arrow key.. which was the old "Upload a Text Message" command key... the Right Arrow key has been programmed to perform the "Upload a Text Message" command. The Expert Command Help Menu has been modified to facilitate the addition command keys/flag settings.. to this end, the Space bar will now swap in a second help screen which contains the K9X toggle/flags settings. Once the "Toggles" screen has been displayed, you may enter any valid Expert Command Key Set or hit the Space bar once again (to remove the secondary Toggles screen). K9X will now display the "Bytes Available" on either the drive which has been designated to hold the K9X Download Path, or the drive in which K9X was started. This display may be displayed manually via the Files Manipulation menu or automatically when performing downloads. K9X v8.10 - Production Version - dated 12/28/88 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Two serious bugs have been eliminated (thanks to Howard Ross!)... 1) A timing problem within the built in SuperK protocols had rendered the upload modes (ALL 12 of them) totally inoperable! Seems I really blew it when I incorporated the SuperK protocols into K9X! 2) In prior versions of K9X, the upload auto file-finding was only active in single file mode. As of this version, auto file-finding is active for both batch and single file modes... The problem here is that I inadvertantly omitted a check for the use of wildcards in batch mode uploads, thus K9X would come back with a "File not found" error if wildcards were specified. I have repaired this oversight as follows: If no wildcards are present in your filename, K9X simply goes about its business and attempts to locate the specified files... first in the logged directory, then the default upload path, then the default download path, and finally, in any of the paths in your K9XDRIVE.TBL If wildcards are present, K9X checks for a specified drive\path along with the filename (looks for a colon as the second character). If you have specified a path, K9X simply passes the path and filename on to the protocol. If no path has been specified, K9X will: 1) use the default upload path if one has been configured or if no default upload path has been configured 2) use the default download path or if no default download path has been configured 3) assume the files are located in your logged dircetory and simply pass the filename with wildcards on to the protocol. My apologies to all of you who have battled with the program thinking that you were doing something wrong! And my sincere thanks to Howard Ross for bringing this all to my attention! K9X v8.20 - Production Version - dated 12/29/88 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ While I was in the code fixing the bugs for v8.10, I decided to add a few things and change some others... A DOS shell option has been added to the upload file marking section. You can access the shell either by way of the main File Manipulation menu or from within the mark & save mode itself. I've made facility to go directly to the "mark & save" section directly from the main File Manipulation Menu without the input of a search criteria. This allows you to use the filename Edit function without having to start a search for another filespec. I've added some additional coding that will account for file listings that are formatted (with spaces) and lack the standard period between the file name and file extension. For uploading, this allows for the user to use the DOS redirection character > to create a list of files (please refer to your DOS manual for information on redirecting DOS output)... K9X will ignore any line in the upload file list that begins with a space or a period and will replace all formatting spaces with a single period. example: this standard DOS directory output Volume in drive C is MININET_1 Directory of C:\K9X . <DIR> 12-18-88 2:18a .. <DIR> 12-18-88 2:18a K9X COM 40702 12-29-88 7:20p K9X 000 71680 12-29-88 7:20p K9X 001 2304 12-29-88 7:16p K9X 002 4352 12-29-88 7:16p K9X 003 7936 12-29-88 7:17p K9X 004 8448 12-29-88 7:17p K9X 005 3328 12-29-88 7:17p K9X 006 5888 12-29-88 7:17p K9X 007 3840 12-29-88 7:17p K9X 008 31744 12-29-88 7:18p K9X 009 14592 12-29-88 7:18p K9X 010 27648 12-29-88 7:19p K9X 011 13056 12-29-88 7:19p K9X 012 3840 12-29-88 7:20p 16 File(s) 15267840 bytes free becomes K9X.COM K9X.000 K9X.001 K9X.002 K9X.003 K9X.004 K9X.005 K9X.006 K9X.007 K9X.008 K9X.009 K9X.010 K9X.011 K9X.012 For downloading, this allows the loading of files lists that contain formatted filenames (such as the file listings found on some BBS'). example: this BBS file listing K9X ARC 321000 12-29-88 Canine Express v8.20 becomes K9X.ARC K9X v8.30 - Production Version - dated 1/21/89 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - The "Fast Change Paramters" code has been changed. Where the old menu simply prompted for a set of parameters, the menu now allows you to 'build' your comm port parameters - changing one or more of the individual parameters (speed, parity, wordlength, stop bits). - The list dialing queue has been increased to a total of 20 entries! This holds true for the internal List Dialer menu, the L)ist Dial command within the dialing directory and the specification of dialing directory entries on the DOS command line. - Along with a slight modification of the dialing directory menu, there are several new commands available within the dialing directory... T - You may now tag an entry via the T command. The sequence here is to place the desired entry into the highlighted position and press the T key. K9X will check the entry number against any existing numbers in the queue. If that number does not already exist, K9X will automatically place the dialing directory entry number into the queue list. If the queue already holds other entry numbers, the new number will be placed at the end of the list. U - The UnTag command works against an already tagged entry number. The process is the same... place the desired entry into the highlighted position and press the U key. If the entry number is present within the queue, K9X will delete it and "fill in the hole" by moving any other numbers down one position. G - The GoTo command allows you to specify a dialing directory entry to go to. K9X will shift its position within the dialing directory so that the specified entry number is placed into the highlighted position. D - Since the List dial feature no longer automatically commences the queue dial when exited, the D command will now start the queue dialing sequence. [Esc] - This isn't a new command... just wanted to note that if there are numbers present within the dialing queue, K9X will automatically commence dialing of the queue when you exit the dialer via the Escape key. - The number of entries in the dialing queue is now displayed within the dialing directory command menu. This figure will be updated automatically when the Tag, Untag or Clear command is specified. - Since the dial queue can be continually built (up to the 20 maximum entries), the C command within the list menu will now clear ALL entries from the queue. - The dial windows have been modified a bit... The directory entry info is quite a bit easier to read now with all of the fields placed in the left side window and the dialing times placed in the right side window. The old redialing "Connect" window has been eliminated. The redial connect message is now displayed within the right side window. A new command has been added here also.. In prior versions, in order to completely abandon the dialing queue, you had to press the Escape key once for each entry in the queue. This version adds the Alt-1 key command which will not only abort the current entry being dialed but abandon the entire queue (just like the terminal Alt-1 command key). Note that [Esc] works as before - [Esc] aborts the current entry dial and proceeds on the the next entry in the queue. - The Extended info feature has been modified to display the extended info on ALL directory entries. Prior versions only displayed the full information for the entry which was positioned in the highlighted spot. By pressing the Right Arrow key, K9X will swap out the current info and display the Last On Date, Macro and Protocol for each of the entries in the displayed page. Note that this new feature is merely a toggle flag. All of your dialing directory commands are available regardless of which "set" of information is being displayed. - The last change in the dialing directory is a bug fix which effected the scrolling of the directory entries... In previous versions, if you held the down arrow key down for a prolonged period, K9X would sit in the Error message/beep state for what seemed like forever! This has been corrected. - After re-reading the docs for ICEX, it seems as though ICEX expects the port to be reset when returning to the calling program. Although this is not done during a "normal" drop to DOS, I have included the code to reset the port upon return from either the ICEX or CIS/B modules. - The CIS/B comm port parameters were wrong! I had specifed a defualt of 8 N 1... This version sets these parameters to whatever the comm port is configured at when CIS/B is called - so be sure to dial up CIS with an 7 E 1 setting! The docs state the the CIS module will automatically change the 7 E 1 to 8 N 1 during file transfers and change back to 7 E 1 upon transfer completion. - The "Hit any key to continue" message within the CIS/B and ICEX windows has had a timing loop added to it. If no key is pressed within about a minute or so, K9X will time out and automatically invoke the CIS/B or ICEX module. - The timing loop is also present for the opening Shareware screen. K9X will time out there in about 2 minutes and commence dialing any queued numbers that were specified on the DOS prompt or simply proceed to the terminal (or Command Gateway Menu System). - In response to several inquiries about the length of time required to recycle when redialing or list dialing... this is due to the values set by the default "Escape string delay". If your modem cable supports all 25 pins (or you are using an internal modem), go into K9XCNF modem parameters and eliminate your Hang Up String. This is done by simply entering a backslash \ for the Hang Up String prompt. If no Hang Up string is specified, K9X will recycle by dropping the DTR line - thus speeding up the recycle time considerably. - In response the number of users experiencing problems when installing K9X, this version now has an installation batch file (INSTALL.BAT) to ease the process somewhat! Be sure all of the files in the K9X.ARC package are in an area OTHER THAN a K9X directory (it doesn't matter where) and simply type INSTALL at the DOS prompt. INSTALL.BAT will MOVE (not COPY) the files into their respective areas. K9X v8.40 - Production Version - dated 1/27/89 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Just a cleanup release here.. There have been reports of 'outragous' cps reports when using the built in SuperK/Jmodem protocols. After reviewing the code, I suspect that the cps figures are being generated when a transfer was immediately aborted or when a transfer was started prior to midnight and completed after midnight. In any case, the spurious cps reports have been taken care of! Another report was that the ANSI interface was not 'working' all of the time. Since K9X does nothing more than pass the ANSI escape strings to the DOS ANSI.SYS driver, I suspect the problem lies with the person who created the ANSI screen rather than with K9X! In any case, I have reworked the ANSI/Music interface in the hopes that it will be more 'compatible' with the unconventional ANSI coding techniques used by some SysOps' when creating their ANSI display screens!