--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: E2U00001 Date: 02/23/97 From: BILL KIRBY Time: 07:09pm \/To: BILL ESPOSITO (Read 0 times) Subj: Adept NEW versions are out... Hello Bill. 23 Feb 97 09:43, Bill Esposito wrote to James Mckenzie: BE> Hello James! BE> 22 Feb 97 22:00, James Mckenzie wrote to Bill Kirby: JM>> Hello Bill! JM>> 22 Feb 97 16:37, Bill Kirby wrote to All: JM>> How about File REQuests, Bill... BE> You can freq it at 33600 speeds, or you can ftp/telnet/http it, or if BE> you have vmodem, you can freq it over the internet. BE> 02-23-1997 12:45am 2633095 Adept108f.Rar Bill, you forgot to state this is a NEW " FULL Install/UpGrade", with a year of FIX's and ADDs. The Upgrade is " Adept-02-22-97.Rar, size 1,825,095. BE> Bill BE> bespo@cereal.mv.com BE> http/ftp/telnet cereal.mv.com Bill [wikk] [ripp] --- GoldEd/2 3.00 alpha1+ - AdeptXBBS v1.08f.03 and v1.08a38 (FreeWare) * Origin: Adept Towers XBBS, Austin Tx. 78724 (1:382/65) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: E2U00002 Date: 02/23/97 From: STEPHEN HAFFLY Time: 08:48am \/To: JONATHAN DE BOYNE POLLARD (Read 0 times) Subj: OS/2 PKzip / unzip settings for fmai On (18 Feb 97) Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote to Stephen Haffly... Hi Jonathan, Jd> JdeBP>> Hmmmmm. No. You've failed to convince me. I see no Jd> difference JdeBP>> in user friendliness between the two. SH> Spanning, Jd> Available in the Info-ZIP tools, as you well know. If not in the note you quoted, I believe I did specify in at least one of them that PKZip/2 will span WITHOUT additional utilities. The docs for zipsplit are sketchy to say the least. In addition, the ZipMe front end doesn't know how to handle multi-volume archives, at least in the version I use. Maybe there has been an update of which I am unaware. In addition, if an individual file is larger than the disksize, you get a message "zipsplit error: Entry too big to split" I just tried this on the Trials of Battle demo, and it choked on the first file, GRAPHICS.DAT. PKZip would have just prompted for another diskette, and merrily kept writing away. Now do you understand why I consider PKZip/2 an improvement? SH> better command line layout, Yes, if one can get away from cryptic letters to word parameters, and ones that make sense at that, then it is an improvement. In any case, I believe I also said that I like a choice. InfoZip has worked well for most things. It isn't perfect though. Lately, I have been using Object Desktop's archive folders to deal with .zip files anyway. It really boils down to a matter of individual choice. Given a choice between InfoZip and PKZip/2, superior spanning ability in PKZip/2 gives it a definite edge IMHO. TTYL, Stephen Team OS/2, Team GEOS OS/2 & Geoworks Ensemble - What a combo! FIDO 6:760/4.3 ... My best view of a Window was through OS/2 Warp. --- PPoint 2.02 * Origin: A point in Yongsan (6:760/4.3) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: E2U00003 Date: 02/23/97 From: JONATHAN DE BOYNE POLLARD Time: 02:08am \/To: CHARLES GAEFKE (Read 0 times) Subj: OS/2 PKzip / unzip JD>> pkzip -rumP -ex archive *.ext CG> That's not the way Pkzip/2 works. :) In which case PKWare still doesn't win, because it then faces a the thorny question of compatibility and similarity between its DOS and OS/2 versions, which no doubt lots of people will make an issue of. Even if the OS/2 version has a better user interface than a simple command line (and it would have to have something like RAR's full-screen interface in order to qualify as more user friendly, remember), and supports all of the things impossible to a DOS program, such as long filenames, extended attributes, large archives, and so forth, I predict that DOS Luddites will still criticise it for not being exactly the same to use as the DOS version. If it's not something as significant as a full-screen interface, but instead nothing more than a change to the command-line option letters and semantics, then you've just shot your previous argument decrying Info-ZIP out from underneath yourself, since the difference from exact compatibility with the DOS pkzip command line option letters and semantics was all that your criticism of Info-ZIP boiled down to. JdeBP --- FleetStreet 1.16 NR * Origin: JdeBP's point, using Squish (2:440/4.3) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: E2U00004 Date: 02/24/97 From: TOM FOTHERBY Time: 05:40am \/To: JOE LERCH (Read 0 times) Subj: Internet DOORS RE: Cannot create data connection in FTP door. Another user had this exact problem, it seems as if GetHostID() is returning 255.255.255.255 allways (strange?) For a fix, run the FTP door with the switch /a (example: ftp /a206.84.198.150) Sorry for the troubles, Tom Fotherby / enigma --- Maximus/2 2.02 * Origin: OS/2 Shareware BBS, telnet://bbs.os2bbs.com (1:109/347) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: E2U00005 Date: 02/23/97 From: KEITH KOTTWITZ Time: 05:43am \/To: JIM BAXTER (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: software Quoting Jim Baxter, talking to Keith Kottwitz, About Re: software on 20 Feb 97 07:38:15 JB> mine's locked away now too.. i'm still playing with it, but i'm gonna w JB> until i can use the event editor at least.. still, as far as i can tell, at JB> a31 or a32 the event's stuff still isn't fixed.. I haven't even got that far with it as logging on locally just gives me a picture of the desk top in the bbs window. JB> correct me if i'm JB> wrong, but aren't you on the rg/2 beta team also? we'll both be running tha JB> as soon as it comes out then eh :) Yea, I'm him and I will I suspect. We'll have to see as soon as... I got interested in Adept while I have been getting together by battery f utilities to run an OS/2 native set up. It sounded really powerful and eature packed and made a lot of sense to look at it. All the bells buttons and whistles in one package... It would make life a lot easier than 5 or 6 different programs to run :) I played with Binkley term but kinda didn't get the control files stuff. I understand the logic of it but like my file attach style so I opted for main door. Also hate to have to regester another mail tosser. I have echo 1.11 and have heard about an OS/2 beta as being available but haven't been able to find a copy of it yet. I've got Fast Mail shareware in place for the initial set up and looked at Maximus but didn't want to try and set up a temp bbs that had a 1.3 meg doc included with it :) I just hope that our DOS versions of renegade will be upgradable to the OS/2 version. ttyl... Keith Kottwitz Taz's Pad BBS "The Taz" "Foolish Pleasure for All" Hamlet, NC Fido 1:3655/7 KeithK@infoave.net "The Rock" --- Renegade v5-11 Exp * Origin: Taz's Pad BBS * Hamlet, NC * 910.205.0398 (1:3655/7) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: E2U00006 Date: 02/22/97 From: LAWRENCE LUCIER Time: 12:32am \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: SOS (soup to squish) Howdy All............:-) Using VSoup and SOS (soup/squish converter) to import Usenet news groups for the BBS here. I have also tried a Souper/Soup2Sq setup with the same results..............that is, news group areas are definded in Squish.cfg but when issuing: squishp out squash link -ff:\tng\souper\echotoss.log squish doesn't pick up the new messages to pack them for another BBS I forward them to. Now the only thing that I can seem to see which maybe causing the problem, is that when I look at the new messages with my off-line reader (SqEd/32) I find the "Sent" bit is already set. Does anyone know if either Soup2Sq or SOS sets this bit when converting the soup packets? Also if this is causing the problem, is there anyway around it; eg.......turning the sent bit off? Also I would like to use SqEd/32 to reply to Usenet groups but due to the header information containing multiple newsgroups(at least I think this is what's doing it as headers with only one newgroup referenced in it upload to my news server OK) the uploaded replies are rejected by the news server. Any thoughts on the above problems would be appreciated...........Thanks! :-) --- Sqed/32 1.13b2/r15155 * Origin: T-Shirts 'N Genes BBS - (250)748-3408 v32b v42b XA CM (1:340/204) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: E2U00007 Date: 02/23/97 From: AARON E.CLARKE Time: 09:21pm \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: OS2 1800 #'s? is there a bbs that has a 1-800 #'s that are free to the public to cruse the areas. maybe have some shareware and on line games ect?? maybe i don't know but It was a try to see if it was on topic a little... Aaron.Eclarke@gsel.org --- Squish/386 v1.11 * Origin: The Computer Lab Deerfield NH (603)463-5837 (1:132/174) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: E2U00008 Date: 02/24/97 From: BILL ESPOSITO Time: 11:34pm \/To: JAMES MCKENZIE (Read 0 times) Subj: Adept NEW versions are out... Hello James! 23 Feb 97 16:17, James Mckenzie wrote to Bill Esposito: JM> Hello Bill! JM> 23 Feb 97 09:43, Bill Esposito wrote to James Mckenzie: BE>> Hello James! BE>> 22 Feb 97 22:00, James Mckenzie wrote to Bill Kirby: JM>>> Hello Bill! JM>>> 22 Feb 97 16:37, Bill Kirby wrote to All: JM>>> How about File REQuests, Bill... BE>> You can freq it at 33600 speeds, or you can ftp/telnet/http it, BE>> or if you have vmodem, you can freq it over the internet. BE>> 02-23-1997 12:45am 2633095 Adept108f.Rar JM> This is the complete package? JM> Thanks, Bill. JM> James Yes. Bill bespo@cereal.mv.com http/ftp/telnet cereal.mv.com --- GoldEd/2 3.00 alpha1+ - AdeptXBBS v1.08a26 (VC) Reg'd * Origin: The Cereal Port BBS 603-899-3335 199.125.78.133 (1:132/152) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: E2U00009 Date: 02/23/97 From: JON PARISE Time: 07:20am \/To: ELLIOTT GOODMAN (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Vmodem EG> What kind of Internet connection does one need to use Vmodem? A EG> personal account? What does one use Vmodem FOR? You can use any type of TCP/IP connection supported by OS/2. Upon loading, it creates a 'Virtual' comm port, which appears as simply another comm port to a VDM session. You just point your Dos comm apps to that port (ie. Com3) and Vmodem will handle and route all the IO through to TCP/IP connection. This allows you to add Telnet capabilities to normal Dos-based communications programs. Jon Parise (jon@world2u.com) Owner, nstSoft .:. Team OS/2 --- WtrGate 0.92.p5-o gamma Unreg * Origin: Infinite Twilight 908-637-8243 Warped Telegard (1:2606/421) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: E2U00010 Date: 02/24/97 From: JONATHAN DE BOYNE POLLARD Time: 01:08pm \/To: ELLIOTT GOODMAN (Read 0 times) Subj: OS/2 PKzip / unzip settings for fmai SH>> Spanning, JdBP>> Available in the Info-ZIP tools [...]. EG> What Info-ZIP tools? You can split one archive into many in order to transport it on floppies using zipsplit. It's not spanning as many people think of it, since the multiple files aren't one big archive, but then again, the approach taken here has its advantages (each individual portion is freestanding, and doesn't depend upon the integrity of the final disc, for instance). It does solve the same underlying problem, though (of transporting archives grown too big for one floppy). JdeBP --- FleetStreet 1.16 NR * Origin: JdeBP's point, using Squish (2:440/4.3)