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- FIXPRT.CMD, Copyright 1992 Brad Berson, Psycho Psoftware
- v1.00 April 28, 1992
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-
- This software is provided with no warranties or guarantees at all.
- Always make backups, read the directions, type carefully and proceed
- at your own risk!
-
- FIXPRT.CMD is a REXX program which serves absolutely no purpose at
- all except to repair minor (and likely even unnoticed) damage done
- by early pre-releases of QMtoPM to a PMcomm dialing directory file.
-
- QMtoPM is a program which converts the dialing directory files from
- Forbin Project's Qmodem into the format used by Multinet's PMcomm,
- OS/2-PM communications program.
-
- Early versions of QMtoPM, due to incorrect documentation of PMcomm's
- file format, incorrectly converted the file transfer protocols for
- all variants of Xmodem and Ymodem. The only effects of this error
- are that the default protocol in the "INFO" box shows as "None" and
- no buttons are pressed on the xfer protocol selection box when you
- request a file transfer. The first time an affect dialing entry is
- used for a file transfer, the incorrect information will be over-
- written with the correct information as long as the "save" box is
- checked in the protocol selection box.
-
- Running FIXPRT is simple. It's quite bulletproof but just to be
- sure, won't write to your original .FON file(s). By default FIXPRT
- looks for PMCOMM.FON in your current directory and creates a file
- by the same name, but with the extension ".NEW".
- See the following examples.
-
- "C:\PMCOMM> FIXPRT" creates PMCOMM.NEW from PMCOMM.FON
-
- "C:\PMCOMM> FIXPRT MYBBS" creates MYBBS.NEW from MYBBS.FON
-
- "C:\PMCOMM> FIXPRT FORBIN.YUK creates FORBIN.NEW from FORBIN.YUK
-
- To test the results, rename your PMCOMM.FON to PMCOMM.OLD and then
- PMCOMM.NEW to PMCOMM.FON, and fire up PMcomm. Upon successful use,
- you can delete PMCOMM.OLD.
-
- It should also be noted that versions of PMcomm 1.11 and earlier
- exhibit a bug where a couple of protocols will show as "None" in
- the dialing "INFO" box, but *will* have the correct button pressed
- in the protocol selection box. This is unrelated to QMtoPM and not
- affected or repaired by FIXPRT, nor is it related to bad file data.
-
- Brad Berson
- Psycho Psoftware
- See QMtoPM documentation for more information.
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- The end.
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