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- The following notes are based upon using TELIX Version 3.11 for several months
- now. These are things that I wish I had known when I started! The executable
- files required to use the hints are all contained in this file.
-
- 1. Do you get a "+0" response when you logon to some boards and not to
- others?
- Your problem is in having the CIS Auto-download turned on. Certain
- boards, notably TBBS and others, poll your communications program in the same
- manner as Compuserve. When CIS Auto-download is turned on, TELIX responds with
- a "+0" to let Compuserve know that it is capable of CIS Quick-B protocol
- transfers.
- You have two choices to eliminate the problem.
- a) Shut off the CIS Auto-download by selecting Alt-O, T, L, N,
- [ENTER], W, E. The problem that this solution creates is that CIS will now not
- recognize that you are capable of CIS Quick B transfers and you will have to
- initiate the CIS transfers manually. But even that can be overcome by placing
- a "_cisb_auto=1" near the beginning of your CIS auto-logon script. Or,
- b) Leave the CIS Auto turned on and insert a "_cisb_auto=0" near the
- top of the log-on scripts for only those boards which poll and cause the "+0"
- to be transmitted.
-
- 2. Would you like to have more functions keys to define?
- If you have the extended keyboard (functions keys F1 through F12),
- Telix will recognize F11 and F12, shifted F11 and F12, Control F11 and F12 and
- Alternate F11 and F12 and allow you define them. The hooker is that the F11
- and F12 keys are not enabled by DOS. If you use Fansi-Console, it will enable
- all the extended keys. If you don't care to use Fansi, the small TSR called
- NEWKEYS.COM contained in this library will also enable the keys. The source
- for these files came from PC magazine and is included here as NEWKEYS.SCR which
- I keyed in myself to preclude questions of copyright infringement. Simply
- include the "NEWKEYS.COM" command in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file and TELIX will give
- you 8 more functions keys to define (assuming you have the extended keyboard.)
-
-
- 3. Would you like to have TELIX come up in the 43 or 50 line mode on your EGA?
- This one I came across in the TELIX Conference on Fidonet. Colin
- Sampaleanu (author of TELIX) stated that there was no way to hard configure
- TELIX to the 43 or 50 line modes. HOWEVER -- if you were in the 43 ot 50 line
- mode before you invoked TELIX, TELIX would sense the environment and come up in
- that mode. Two files, again from PC Magazine, are included in this library
- which switch an EGA display to 43 and 50 lines, respectively. Simply call TELIX
- via a batch file and include EGA43.COM or EGA50.COM as appropriate before
- calling TELIX. If you wish to be restored to the 25 line mode upon exit from
- TELIX, them include EGA25.COM in your batch file after the call to Telix. The
- batch file might read
- EGA43.COM TELIX
- command_line_options
- EGA25.COM
- Call it TX.BAT or whatever and it will solve a problem that vexed me for
- several months. The source for EGA25.COM, EGA43.COM and EGA50.COM is once
- again included to preclude copyright problems.
-
- 4. Finally -- would you like to have TELIX come up in the dialing directory --
- ready to point-and-shoot-dial your favorite BBS?
- The following SALT script will do the trick:
- main()
- {
- dial("");
- }
- Compile it and use the script name as your start-up script. E.g., if you
- called it DIAL.SLC, then
- TELIX SDIAL
- would bring up TELIX with the first screen of your dialing directory displayed.
- You say you tried it and it doesn't work? Aha! One last thing -- you must
- turn OFF the auto dialing bar in your configuration. Use Alt-O, G, E, N,
- [ENTER], W, E. The logic of the terminology fails me, but that's what works!
-
- Enjoy TELIX .... and register it -- I did.
-
- Jim Gaffney - El Paso, Texas
- CIS: 70515,1036
- GENIE: JIMGAFF
- Rio Grande TP Board - (915) 592-4976
- 300-9600 baud, 24 hr, 8/1/N
-