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- These two scripts give a little help to navigating GEnie, using QTERM 4.2
- There is a bug in at least two copies of V4.2g that I uploaded that may
- cause these scripts to fail. The bug concerns the '!< = ' command. You'll
- know immediately if your version of QTERM is corrupt: the menu selection
- will always fail. If this happens, you need to patch your version of QTERM
- as follows. It's a single byte patch, which can easily be applied with ZSID
- or DDT. Load up QTERM, and list from 278A onwards. There is the following
- sequence:
-
- RET
- INC HL
- CALL ????
- LD DE,XXXX
-
- All that is needed is to add one to the address loaded into DE.
-
- Make the change, and then exit, and SAVE 64 QTERMNEW.COM
-
- As for the two scripts, GENIE looks after logging in. It will need to
- be configured to include the phone number you use, and your USER ID
- and Password, and you may wish to alter the baud rate as well (as
- delivered, it runs at 1200 baud). There are some comments in the
- script file showing where to make these changes. MENU is the actual
- script that works on GEnie, it always starts by getting to the top
- menu, and then it prompts for a selection. Only one piece of
- configuration is needed: the file where selection 5 is to place mail
- from your mailbox needs to be specified. This is done near the bottom
- of the script, and as above there are some comments to help.