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scott
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response 132 of 187:
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May 30 23:26 UTC 1997 |
I think the new modems are not quite happy yet. My suspicion is that the Grex
port speed keeps defaulting to less than 2400 baud, so I'm thinking about
setting those ports for 2400 baud only, and trusting the modem to deal with
it if somebody connects at 1200.
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mdw
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response 133 of 187:
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May 31 03:16 UTC 1997 |
That's guaranteed to cause lost output. Only the 1st 4 ports have
rts/cts logic. The other ports do not have handshaking. If the modem
can't keep up with grex, output is lost. There is no way around this.
Since flow control is essential with error correction or for baud-rate
mismatching, that imples all the ports except for the first 4 should
have error correction disabled, and the modem speed should be the same
as grex's speed.
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valerie
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response 134 of 187:
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May 31 05:00 UTC 1997 |
This response has been erased.
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davel
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response 135 of 187:
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May 31 11:23 UTC 1997 |
Marcus, thanks for the quick work on ftpd.
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rcurl
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response 136 of 187:
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May 31 16:25 UTC 1997 |
Yes - ftp dir works fine now. Nice to be able to see what one is doing....
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mcnally
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response 137 of 187:
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May 31 17:04 UTC 1997 |
*are* there any people left with sub-2400bps modems anymore?
since 2400bps modems can be had at swap meets for pennies at
some point it becomes cheaper/easier to stockpile a stack of
them and *give* them away to the 1200bps users and not inconvenience
everyone else using faster modems and waste staff time supporting
the technology..
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bjorn
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response 138 of 187:
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May 31 18:35 UTC 1997 |
lately I've been getting a failed security checkpoint message when I leave
the first conference of my .cflist (or whichever file it is that orders my
conference membership).
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omni
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response 139 of 187:
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May 31 20:56 UTC 1997 |
I have a 300bps that is my backup to my backup emergency modem.
However, my Porsche is doing fine, and is showing no signs of failing.
(hayes 14400)
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valerie
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response 140 of 187:
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Jun 1 04:49 UTC 1997 |
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senna
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response 141 of 187:
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Jun 1 17:17 UTC 1997 |
sounds more like a '94 escort at the moment, omni. My '96 28800 has yet to
fail, but we have two backup modems just in case.
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drew
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response 142 of 187:
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Jun 1 17:51 UTC 1997 |
I have a 300 baud TRASH-80 modem in the basement, which I haven't used since
'89. Probably works. 2400s are more common here though; and I use a NewComn
33.6K on the main brain, and have a 14.4K ZOOM out on loan to someone who is
trying to use it to play MOO 2 multi-player.
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srw
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response 143 of 187:
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Jun 2 18:36 UTC 1997 |
In answer to resp:131. I switched from MSIE to Netscape. It's much
better, doesn't have as many security problems, and wraps the text like
Backtalk expects it to.
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tsty
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response 144 of 187:
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Jun 3 06:34 UTC 1997 |
plus, microsoft maybe getting out of the internet service provider
business....
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senna
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response 145 of 187:
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Jun 5 05:04 UTC 1997 |
For reasons I cannot fathom, I am unable to properly dialin to grex. Dialing
both -5041 and -3000, I get garbled messages... I can tell what grex is
supposed to say, but for whatever reason the characters are changed to
gibberish.
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jared
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response 146 of 187:
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Jun 5 07:19 UTC 1997 |
Are you dialing at 81N or 71E?
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valerie
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response 147 of 187:
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Jun 5 13:24 UTC 1997 |
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triveni
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response 148 of 187:
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Jun 5 19:55 UTC 1997 |
hi !! agni , sorry but can you tell me how do we come out of the picospan as
i logged in first time yesterday and happen to chose this . i wanted to chose
the menu type !!
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win95
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response 149 of 187:
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Jun 5 20:48 UTC 1997 |
I think triveni is confused in bbs :) type unix then it will get you $ prompt
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senna
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response 150 of 187:
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Jun 5 22:16 UTC 1997 |
Microsoft Internet explorer, since it seems to be the stable browser at the
moment. I was worried about my word wrap.
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remmers
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response 151 of 187:
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Jun 5 22:43 UTC 1997 |
My experience using MSIE with Backtalk was that it tended to mess
up word wrap. Netscape, on the other hand, does not. So I've
switched to Netscape.
(The "stability" of MSIE is debatable, but that's material for
another item.)
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senna
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response 152 of 187:
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Jun 6 05:10 UTC 1997 |
Wow, the word wrap *is* hideous. My dialin program was indeed set wrong,
thanks for the advice.
MSIE is stable on my computer, that's all that counts.
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scg
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response 153 of 187:
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Jun 6 06:12 UTC 1997 |
Would it be possible to make backtalk do the wordwrap itself, if the browser
won't do it. I know the browser should do it, but MSIE is really too popular
a browser to just ignore, no matter how bad a browser it may be.
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mcnally
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response 154 of 187:
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Jun 6 06:20 UTC 1997 |
The only way I know of to enforce word-wrap from backtalk would be to
have it surround everything with the pre tag, which would be fairly
unattractive unless you're a big fan of the Courier font.. basically
you'd be making it moderately ugly for everyone to avoid making it
*really* ugly for those users whose broken software is the culprit.
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danr
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response 155 of 187:
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Jun 6 11:25 UTC 1997 |
Backtalk already surrounds responses with the <pre> tag. (I just
looked at the html source.)
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remmers
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response 156 of 187:
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Jun 6 13:21 UTC 1997 |
Right. I think the MSIE/Backtalk word wrap problem is that when
you type text into the form entry box and let MSIE do the word
wrap for you, MSIE isn't passing the line breaks over to
Backtalk when the form is submitted. Netscape, on the other
hand, does it right.
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