--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: E4Q00007 Date: 04/17/97 From: MIKE ROARK Time: 08:16am \/To: JOHN GLINSKI (Read 0 times) Subj: Good OS/2 Mailer/Tosser Hello John! Tuesday April 15 1997 19:56, John Glinski wrote to Mike Roark: ->> liked the fact that I now had a native OS/2 mailer running and ->> learned to handle the text configs. JG> Okay, then what combination would you suggest? If the tosser JG> supports PCBoard msg format then that is a definate plus. Both must JG> be native 32-bit OS/2 and be powerful since I do alot of hubbing. I really can't say which tosser would be work. I am not familiar with PCBoard, and other than the native tosser, or perhaps Interecho, I don't know of any. As for Mailer, I would suggest Binkley XE series, or perhaps Xenia. Both support Hubbing well. My preference is towards Xenia. The reason is that the large config file has been separated into smaller segments. I have renamed them to something easier to use, and can find my way around them easily. Give each a shot. Try setting them up to see if they will work as you want. All that it takes is a little time. And if you keep your present setup, then you really haven't lost anything. Have a good day!! Mike [Team OS/2] Internet bcomber@cave.fido.de --- * Origin: Finally Warped! (2:2490/8016) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: E4Q00008 Date: 04/19/97 From: CRAIG FORD Time: 12:15pm \/To: ED GEORGEN (Read 0 times) Subj: Anyone using IMMPM??? Ed Georgen wrote the following to All, and I quote (in part): EG> Looking for anyone using IMMPM. Would like to see how and when you EG> get dotick to run... Per correspondence with the author before he left for greener pastures, I process files seperately via an ErrorLevelShell command that is tiggered upon recption of a *.tic file.. Regards.... Craig aka: cford@ix.netcom.com : craig.ford@f2001.n106.z1.conchbbs.com --- timEd/2 1.10+ * Origin: Dayze of Futures Past * V.Everything * 281-458-0237 * (1:106/2001) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: E4Q00009 Date: 04/19/97 From: FRANK SEXTON Time: 08:08am \/To: MARIO DULISSE (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Adept and CL-5446 -=> /* Quoting Mario Dulisse to Frank Sexton */ <=- > MD> BTW event the cirrus/trident cards work properly at > MD> standard VGA settings, so how much more proof do you > MD> need that the problem lies in the video drivers for > MD> those cards? > Well then, I guess no one running a Trident or a Cirrus > card need mess with Adept eh? Is that what you're saying? MD> You like putting words in peoples mouths?? I didn't mean to do that. I first only said that I feel you should attempt to make Adept work with the Cirrus cards. That's all. MD> I'm just pointing out that rather than beating up on MD> adept *MAYBE* you could try talking to the card maker MD> and see what they changed from the warp 3 MD> distribution (Which works flawlessly with adept) to MD> their current incarnation, (Which do not work properly MD> with adept). If you interpet that to mean don't mess MD> with adept if your running one of these two cards, MD> then that's your loss.... I'm not beating up on Adept. In fact, I have no idea who's at fault here. I know however that just as good a case can be made in the other direction. I.E. "How come our drivers work fine for everything except Adept?". That's all. Mario, programers have been working around bugs in operating systems and ancillary programs for ions. In MS DOS, in MS Windows, in OS/2, in Unix, you name it. Why don't you want to try work around this Cirrus thing? > I've been running CIRRUS cards of one sort or another for > about four years now since OS/2 2.0. Adept is, very > simply, the only program that has ever given me any trouble > with a CIRRUS card. Don't really know what else to say. MD> Adept is probably the only program you've tried that MD> tries to use *ALL* the features of your video card... Could be. Who knows. I'm sure Cirrus would say that if Adept is the only program affected that it "must" not be their problem. This philosophy cuts both ways. MD> Frank, i'm not going to get into a long drawn out MD> argument here, bottom line is adept runs fine with MD> the warp 3 shipped cirrus drivers, it displays MD> transparent screens with later cirrus drivers. Right, it doesn't run with the Warp 4.0 Cirrus drivers and probably won't with the Warp 5.0 Cirrus drivers whenever 5.0 ships. MD> Adept did not change anything in the video routines, MD> do you suppose maybe cirrus did?? Mario, as you know there were 26 separate changes (fixpacks) that Warp itself changed. Change is a GOOD thing. Not a bad thing. Maybe it's time Adept changed something. MD> End of thread for me, no need to reply... I know there is no need. I AM NOT Adept bashing. I don't mean to do that at all. I am VERY GRATEFUL that you are continuing to code for Adept. I've always liked it. I was led into this conversation simply because some other poor smuck didn't know why he was getting a transparent screen. I offered him a solution (freqing the old driver) and happened to mention that I had this problem also and since it has been a problem now since one of the earliest driver updates with Warp 3.0 that I thought it'd be the right thing to do for Mario to look into it. Having said all that, for the first time in a long time I'm gonna load up Adept again (the newest version) and take another look. I haven't even TRIED my current Cirrus drivers with Adept yet. For all I know it'll work. Beats me. Anyhow, if I *do* still have this transparent screen problem after getting Adept loaded, I'd very much like to work with you a little to see if we can put this problem to rest. You mentioned in an earlier post that you didn't see anything in the code that would cause this and even if you did want to experiment that you didn't have an affected Cirrus system to work on. Well, if I have this problem I'm offering my services to test and report back to you directly (I could care less about long-distance calls) anything that I find as frequently as you'd like. What do you say? -Frank (fsexton@xpert.net - http://www.concentric.net/~fsexton) --- Blue Wave/OS2 v2.30 * Origin: Wildcard BBS,Thornton,CO HST/V34+ +1-303-252-0491 (1:104/725) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: E4Q00010 Date: 04/19/97 From: TIM PEETERS Time: 08:00am \/To: JUSTIN BAUSTERT (Read 0 times) Subj: TW2002 V3.00 Saturday April 19 1997 01:41, Justin Baustert wrote to Tim Peeters: TP>> I have 2002v301.ZIP available here. Got it their system this TP>> afternoon. Supposed to fix the FOSSIL problems. JB> Would that be available for freq? I tried it, and got nothing back.. I'm using PCBoard's internat Fidonet mailer. Doesn't always work as advertized. Available via FTP or Telnet download, or off my Web site. -Tim Internet: tim.peeters@applegate.com Telnet, Vmodem, FTP, or Http://www.applegate.com --- GoldED 3.00.Alpha5+ 1517US3 * Origin: APPLEGATE Neenah, WI. USA (COM5) (1:139/631) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: E4Q00011 Date: 04/19/97 From: JUSTIN BAUSTERT Time: 07:56pm \/To: TIM PEETERS (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: TW2002 V3.01 JB> Would that be available for freq? I tried it, and got nothing back.. TP> I'm using PCBoard's internat Fidonet mailer. Doesn't always work as TP> advertized. Available via FTP or Telnet download, or off my Web That's allright.. I found it a little later off Bob Juge's ftp site.. I also have it available for freq as 2002V301.ZIP.. Hopefully this version is missing a few bugs.. Justin Baustert --- Telegard v3.02/mL * Origin: Courier Central \ Cashion, OK \ 405.433.2665 (1:147/92) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: E4Q00012 Date: 04/19/97 From: JOHN GLINSKI Time: 12:35am \/To: CRAIG MCGREGOR (Read 0 times) Subj: Setup Utils Vs Text file configs 00:35:0004/19/97 -> Yes, setup programs with fancy menus are easier at first glance. ut, -> the fact is they are less efficient, finding particular features hidden -> under layers of menys can be annoying. The fact is text configs are in act -> easier, and more efficient once you get used to handling them. {Text Deleted} I understand your points and they are valid. I guess I got used to the ease and also the fact that the Mailer includes a Tosser and directly integrates with PCBoard's msg format. It was a winning combination except that its DOS and since I have been running PCBoard/2 for 1 year now I am looking for the best Mailer/Tosser that is Native 32 bit OS/2 to upgrade to with a ssle. John G. --- QScan/PCB v1.19b / 01-0553 * Origin: Tiger's Lair *Middletown,CT* *860-347-7510* (1:320/237) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: E4Q00013 Date: 04/05/97 From: JOE CARTER Time: 01:05pm \/To: MATT ION (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Running on a minimal system On 30 Mar 97 15:59:03, Matt Ion was talking to Tony Langdon TL> mIRC 4.72 - 16 bit version won't run under Win-OS/2. Is buggy TL> under real Windows. MI> OS/2 has many equivalents: PMIRC, GTIRC, and OpenChat, to name a few. MI> And no, they don't do all those mIRC-PROPRIETARY things like text MI> color commands. OpenChat/2 does! => Or, at least, the default OC/2 script does, I don't yet know for sure about GemZ. It'll also run ircII scripts, though you'll lose the colors and popups unless you hack the scripts to add them. TL> Commonwealth Bank banking system (Australian bank which is offering TL> online services) - The Win 3.x version of the client uses Win32S TL> 1.30, which I believe Warp doesn't support (highest I've heard of TL> support for is 1.25). No plans for an OS/2, Macintosh or other TL> version. MI> Time to switch banks then, and make sure they know why. Agreed! ~~~ ReneWave v2.00 [NR] --- Renegade Forever! * Origin: Kaat's Keep / Salem, OR USA / 503-375-0567 (1:3406/7) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: E4Q00014 Date: 04/05/97 From: JOE CARTER Time: 01:05pm \/To: DENNIS REICHEL (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: What a Bunch of BULLS__T On 01 Apr 97 23:06:01, Dennis Reichel was talking to Scott Drake DR> While I won't rule it out, ballot stuffing is not the only DR> possible explanation. Quite possibly a much larger percentage DR> of OS/2 advocates participated in this survey than users of other DR> operating systems, resulting in a non-representative cross DR> section of respondants. The disparity does seem pretty extreme DR> though :-) Ballot stuffing or not, to simply claim without any sort of evidence that the results are null and void because OS/2 won, that is ridiculous at best and shows an apparent disrespect to everyone who voted, fairly or not. Perhaps OS/2 DID win for a reason? Perhaps there is less support in NT than the media would have us believe? ~~~ ReneWave v2.00 [NR] --- Renegade Forever! * Origin: Kaat's Keep / Salem, OR USA / 503-375-0567 (1:3406/7) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: E4Q00015 Date: 04/09/97 From: JOE CARTER Time: 03:41pm \/To: GEIR_EIVIND MORK (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Running on a minimal system On 05 Apr 97 19:02:36, Geir_eivind Mork was talking to Greg Cobb > OpenIRC is an excellent PM IRC client, as well as IRCII which is text mode. > Both can use Unix scripts and are great programs. GM> OpenIRC is an older version of OpenCHAT :) get it and GemZ %4.4#2 or GM> greater (you get it in the support channel among other places, GM> #openchat) Ooh, another update.. I'll pick it up later, thanks. ~~~ ReneWave v2.00 [NR] --- Renegade Forever! * Origin: Kaat's Keep / Salem, OR USA / 503-375-0567 (1:3406/7) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: E4Q00016 Date: 04/10/97 From: JOE CARTER Time: 10:25pm \/To: TONY LANGDON (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Running on a minimal system On 08 Apr 97 08:47:20, Tony Langdon was talking to Geir_eivind Mork GM> Why, PMMail is Eduroa superior, Openchat is mIRC superior, NetScape is TL> Can you make OpenChat shoe the users in a channel constantly, like TL> mIRC does? This is an important thing for me, as my short term memory TL> is limited, so repeatedly doing /who # (or using the menu equivalent) TL> doesn't cut it for me. I have tried OpenChat, and it's got a lot of TL> potential, if a few little things can be addressed, or programmed in TL> with a script. I have also tried the GemZ scripts, which are useful, TL> but not what I'm looking for. Mikh doesn't see reason for it. I do, as you do apparently. Email him and tell him that you'd like a nicklist and not just for popup reasons. TL> OpenChat is an excellent client, and I'd like to run it instead of TL> mIRC, if I can make it show users in channels constantly, and support a TL> simple way of implementing automated functions (alternatively, TL> including pointers to online IRCII script writing tutorials would be a TL> great addition to the documentation :) ). That's the thing that TL> dissappointed me, no documentation on the scripting language that I TL> could find. :-( (I went through every likely looking file in the TL> package with an editor to look). Even if it simply said "check out xyz TL> site", that'd be useful enough for me. It's a lot like programming for unix csh.. GM> also for Os2, NcFTP is perfect for both script and normal use, thought GM> there are graphical ftp clients who is better, but I just love NcFTP. TL> I just use the standard OS/2 FTP for that. Not pretty, but I like TL> text based FTP anyway. :-) You're gonna flip over ncftp. It's text mode and has features not found in most GUI-based clients. ~~~ ReneWave v2.00 [NR] --- Renegade Forever! * Origin: Kaat's Keep / Salem, OR USA / 503-375-0567 (1:3406/7)