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- #: 43409 Sec. 0 - General Information
- Sb: #43353-#PC-TALK III ADVICE
- 05-Jun-84 21:09:13
- Fm: Wes Meier (SysOp) 70215,1017
- To: Tim Colling 72446,2007 (X)
-
- Tim ---- Hmmmmmmmm.....Well, I don't know if you've seen PCT-365, but it sure
- looks "official" enough to have fooled me! Damn! Here I was rejoicing in the
- thought that my (buggy) Split Screen mod was destined for "official"
- immortality. Hehe, the "bugs" are worse in the PCT-365 version than in my
- PC3SC.MRG version. Oh well.....
-
- - Wes
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- #: 43579 Sec. 0 - General Information
- Sb: #43409-PC-TALK III ADVICE
- 07-Jun-84 00:01:17
- Fm: Jim Gainsley 70346,457
- To: Wes Meier (SysOp) 70215,1017
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- Wes: I did the PCT365 and the code is exactly yours just merged in. The only
- extension I made was to provide an auto clear for the msg line. Didn't make any
- other changes, cuz I didn't find any problems to correct, works great. Also,
- Headlands did preview it before I upld it to any BBS.
-
- #: 43596 Sec. 5 - Communications
- Sb: PC-TALK III ADVICE
- 07-Jun-84 02:26:00
- Fm: Jim Gainsley 70346,457
- To: Tim Colling
-
- Sorry for any confusion Tim. PCT365.MRG is simply a collection of various .MRG
- files in the PD for this program plus some of my own work. In doing this I
- liked and followed the lead of John Chapmen in his PCT36.MRG i.e. a
- sufficiently large number of changes in MRG form is given a higher version
- number.
- Note the file is .MRG file and not a complete program. Headlands did preview
- the PCT365 and accompanying .DOC rev. file prior to my uplg it to BBS's.
- I asked them to do this, since I altered their logon screen, and simply was
- also interested in their opinion, which was favorable.
- BUT, I didn't and don't mean to imply anything 'official' about it. The only
- significant problem with it follows from the fact that it doesn't consider
- the DTR requirement of the 1200B internal Hayes. (In May, Hayes did release
- another ver of the 1200B, which has the switches. Dan Frank wrote a good mod
- called FIX365.MRG which fixes the code causing a disconnect when the 1200B
- is used, when in the XMODEM module (PCT365 incorporates a .MRG mod that auto
- changes to 8N1 and back again after xfer). However, it doesn't correct for
- the Alt-P module, which will still cause a disconnect for the 1200B. A
- hardware fix called 1200BDTR.FIX is out which will disable the 1200B's DTR
- requirement altogether. (After having upld the PCT365 and then finding out
- about the 1200B DTR problem of which I was unaware, I built a .LBR file which
- contains these two fix files alonalong with the others in the PCT365 series.
- The reason I didn't simply mrg Frank's file in was because it didn't solve the
- whole problem i.e. in the Alt-P module. And, cuz many will have the new 1200B
- which doesn't suffer from the problem.) How's that for a long paragraph!
-
- I'd be interested in knowing of any bugs you found in the splitscreen or
- otherwise. I've been playing the new CIS XMODEM facility called XFILTR in the
- PER. I've used the PCT365.LBR (CIS requires that it be called PCT365.BIN) and
- right now it's made it as far as ACCESS. We'll see if it gets here. It's 330
- blocks and took about 20 minutes with CIS's current beta implementation. But
- that's another story.
-