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A week or so ago, I uploaded a script for Telix 3.00 which would work
with the Qwikmail door on Cheers!, a PC-Board in Memphis, Tennessee.
Since then I have rewritten the script so that it is more efficient and
more useful -- it not only runs better but it also is capable of being
used with Radio Free Memphis, another PC-Board in Memphis, without any
change. (It can detect which board has answered and will adjust the
door number and filenames accordingly.) It should be possible to modify
it to work with other PC-Boards anywhere.
I link the script to the directory entry, so it runs every time I call
Cheers! or Radio Free Memphis. I prefer to remain online after the
script runs so that I might immediately check for new files, etc., so it
does not automatically log off. If you prefer to run the script from
the <Alt><G> command, do an automatic log-off, set a timer to allow
unattended operation, or need to join a conference before entering the
Qwikmail door, you can get inspiration for the changes you need to make
by looking at Don Weinman's scripts for Sleepy Hollow.
I read those scripts with great interest, because my script also uses
the "tracking" approach in looking for the arrival of strings. I find
this approach faster than the use of "waitfor," but it is also a lot
trickier. I suspect timing may be a problem with "tracking," and in my
previous script I had to manufacture a kludge or two to cope with
strings arriving at awkward times. (I run Telix 3.00 on a Zenith Z-151,
a 4.77mHz machine, and a 2400-bps Hayes-compatible modem.) The current
script seems to catch all the expected strings in time to act upon them.
No doubt my fundamental problem is that I am not much of a programmer in
any language, and I have never written in C. My SALT probably speaks
with a strange Pascal accent, therefore. It works for me, on my
equipment and on the two boards in Memphis -- beyond that I can make no
promises and certainly no guarantees. Take this script and see if you
can make it both more elegant and useable; if you can get it to work
better, please let me see the modifications you have made.
--Maurice Crouse, Memphis, Tennessee