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| 25 new of 283 responses total. |
drew
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response 125 of 283:
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Jan 29 23:11 UTC 1999 |
Sounds like somehow grex's phone lines managed to get voice mail attached to
them. See if the problem exists for others, and bitch to the phone company
if it does.
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valerie
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response 126 of 283:
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Feb 1 00:04 UTC 1999 |
This response has been erased.
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drew
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response 127 of 283:
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Feb 1 02:28 UTC 1999 |
#123 described a voice asking to leave a name and phone number, which seemed
to be like an answering machine or voice mail, and different from the behavior
described in #124, which sounds like an ad campaign for repeat dialing. I
guess #123 could also be describing the repeat dial service as well; it just
wasn't clear exactly what was going on.
The presence of a redial service might be useful to a voice caller; but modems
and computers are well capable of handling this task, thank you Ameritech.
It's not a total loss - you can always shorten the redial delay time and not
look for the BUSY at all.
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aruba
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response 128 of 283:
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Feb 3 18:25 UTC 1999 |
Got a modem that connected but didn't give me a login; there are 3 other
people dialed in.
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richard
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response 129 of 283:
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Feb 4 23:24 UTC 1999 |
was getting "file system full" msgs there for a while-- does /a fill
up faster than /b or /c? I guess most home directories must be in /a
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keesan
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response 130 of 283:
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Feb 4 23:54 UTC 1999 |
I got something like that in the middle of writing a short email, so I back
up a few words and sent what I had. Glad I was not at fault for this.
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janc
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response 131 of 283:
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Feb 5 00:20 UTC 1999 |
A vandal filled up /a. I found him and nuked him. All in a days work.
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cmcgee
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response 132 of 283:
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Feb 5 03:53 UTC 1999 |
I'm only getting a Respond or pass? prompt at the end of each item. And when I
reached the end of the last new item, I typed read 4, to come back herel When
I did that, I got the whole item, with no page breaks, just line after line
scrolling up and off my screen. Where should I start looking for the problem?
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cmcgee
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response 133 of 283:
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Feb 5 04:11 UTC 1999 |
Ok, I quit PicoSpan, got to a shell prompt, typed menu, then b.
I'm now back in PicoSpan, getting full prompts (respond, pass, forget, etc)
and word wrap is working. Twice before when I tried that, it didn't work.
Any clues here?
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aruba
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response 134 of 283:
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Feb 5 15:11 UTC 1999 |
In sounds to me like picospan couldn't find your .cfonce file, because that's
where your editor gets set to 'gate' (which inserts line breaks when
you're typing a response) and your pager to 'more -d' (which keeps the
text from scrolling off the screen without pausing) and your prompts to
what you expect.
Maybe this was related to /a being filled up?
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janc
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response 135 of 283:
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Feb 5 18:28 UTC 1999 |
Failure to read the .cfonce makes sense, but I can't imagine how /a
being full would relate.
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scott
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response 136 of 283:
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Feb 5 23:38 UTC 1999 |
Most of the modems were offline from when Grex was down until just a few
minutes ago (victims of the reboot).
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keesan
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response 137 of 283:
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Feb 6 02:34 UTC 1999 |
That explains why I did not even get a busy signal. I sent email via arbornet
instead. Nice that one system is always operative.
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janc
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response 138 of 283:
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Feb 6 15:08 UTC 1999 |
Yeah, I'd screwed up one of Grex's configuration files, so it refused to
reboot right. STeve had just stopped in to do a quick reboot on his way
to work. But the time he managed to fix things, he was running rather
late, and took off in a hurry, forgetting to turn the modeii back on.
My fault at least as much as STeve's. Scott went by later and powered
the modeii back up.
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steve
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response 139 of 283:
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Feb 6 16:40 UTC 1999 |
Sorry, all. It once again proves that no good deep goes unpunished.
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hhsrat
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response 140 of 283:
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Feb 6 21:27 UTC 1999 |
trying to look at the item list for hangout using Backtalk, I get a
backtalk error
"ERROR: could not open /bbs/hangout /config
executing "open_conf" on line 19 of pistachio/openconf.bt included by
"stopped" on line 44 of pistachio/confhome.bt"
Using telnet and then running bbs, it works fine
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mdw
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response 141 of 283:
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Feb 7 04:10 UTC 1999 |
That is because backtalk has a "different" interpretation of /bbs/conflist
lines 183-184 than PicoSpan.
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hhsrat
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response 142 of 283:
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Feb 7 04:40 UTC 1999 |
Is there a way to fix this problem?
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mdw
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response 143 of 283:
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Feb 7 07:24 UTC 1999 |
There are many ways to fix this problem.
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hhsrat
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response 144 of 283:
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Feb 7 19:44 UTC 1999 |
This problem has been fixed. According to (login-name) i, there were
extranaeous blanks in some file that Backtalk didn't like
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valerie
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response 145 of 283:
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Feb 7 21:52 UTC 1999 |
This response has been erased.
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i
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response 146 of 283:
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Feb 7 22:56 UTC 1999 |
Re#144 -
Extra spaces in /bbs/conflist that *i* put there....but i was just
uh, testing...that's it!...i was just testing!....
<i hides the ball & remains of the vase behind the sofa and goes
back to playing with his Legos>
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valerie
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response 147 of 283:
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Feb 8 02:52 UTC 1999 |
This response has been erased.
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mdw
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response 148 of 283:
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Feb 8 02:58 UTC 1999 |
(doesn't everyone use 90 cols by now?)
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janc
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response 149 of 283:
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Feb 8 03:28 UTC 1999 |
Yeah, Backtalk should be smart enough to ignore extra spaces, but it
apparantly isn't.
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