--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: E5P00028 Date: 05/17/97 From: BILL KIRBY Time: 12:06am \/To: MARV HUBBARD (Read 1 times) Subj: Adept keeps comin' (Part 2) Hello Marv. 13 May 97 21:28, Marv Hubbard wrote to Lawrence Lucier: MH> Hello Lawrence! MH> Monday May 12 1997 16:13, Lawrence Lucier wrote to Marv Hubbard: MH>>> of the things that tends to get overlooked with Adept, is that, MH>>> while it is a GUI type of interface on the Sysop's end, it also MH>>> Adept lets me do it either way.. LL>> Hmmm.......interesting! I have learned something new LL>> today........thanks Marv, much appreciated! :-) MH> Ya keep looking, and yer gonna get hooked ya know!!! :-) MH> Marv Hubbard Marv, I keep telling them, Adept is worst than "Crack". One good dose and your hooked..... Hay, everyone out there running Adept with a USR Sportster, 28.8/33.6, Please send........... Roger Nelson ur Init String..! 1:3828/7.0 Bill ... -= DownLoad Adept XBBS files @ http://www.comland.com/~bkirby =- --- Adept/2 XBBS v1.09.40u, 32 Node (FreeWare) - GoldEd3.00/2-a3+ UNREG * Origin: TwinTowers BBS,AustinTx.- www.comland.com/~bkirby (1:382/65) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: E5P00029 Date: 05/17/97 From: BILL KIRBY Time: 12:42am \/To: ALL (Read 1 times) Subj: Adept Releases Have a Good WeekEnd ... -= Adept/2 XBBS UpDate Poop =- Released 16 MAY 97 ad109f47.ZIP & ad109u47.ZIP (FREEware) by Mario Duliess or NEW ------- aduVAC40.ZIP (FREEware) and NEW ------- FileEd25.ZIP (FREEware by Nitin Chandra DownLoad Adept from: http://www.comland.com/~bkirby For the NEW USER or INSTALLER. I have NOW installed on MY Web Page, something needed for a long time. I Captured Gif files of MY WFC: CONFIG> screens ...... A "MUST"...! Named: RIPSGIFS.ZIP --------------------------------------- The (magic) name to "Request" files from - MY BBS system are: "Back to the Future" Magic Name =/or Request File Name Build ----------- ----------------- ----- WATu =/or ad109u47.ZIP (WAT) compiled WATf =/or ad109f47.ZIP (WAT) compiled VACu =/or aduVAC40.ZIP NEW (VAC) compiled GKPR =/or gate2010.ZIP (VAC) compiled gate2103.ZIP (VAC0 compiled -= From 1:382/65.0 =- ------------------------------------------------------- --- AdeptXBBS v1.09.40 (FREEWare/2) * Origin: TwinTowers BBS,AustinTx.- www.comland.com/~bkirby (1:382/65) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: E5P00030 Date: 05/16/97 From: ALAN HESS Time: 09:58pm \/To: GORDY DUER (Read 1 times) Subj: Re: bink/2 - Platinum Express Whilst masticating on , Gordy Duer (1:320/118) wrote to Alan Hess: GD> I don't think it is Platinum Express at all. Most likely some of GD> your files got messed up. Save all your ctl/cfg files erase GD> binkley directory and then re-create it fresh. Copy your ctl/cfg GD> files back in and try it again. Since you most likely used all GD> the old directories from your old setup for your dos run they GD> should me fine. Nope, my files were fine - it was Bink/2 2.60 and PlatEx not liking each other. BinkleyPE works fine, with my same binkley.cfg. *adh* --- Msged 4.10 * Origin: Nerve Center - Source of the SPINAL_INJURY echo! (1:261/1000) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: E5P00031 Date: 05/16/97 From: DAVE THOMAS Time: 06:23pm \/To: JUSTIN BAUSTERT (Read 1 times) Subj: Re: os2 JB> JB> If you haven't loaded any fixpaks, that is most likely your JB> DT> problem.. SHAR was somewhat broken in earlier revisions of Warp for JB> JB> DOS sessions.. The current fixpak for Warp3 is #26.. JB> JB> DT> I know nothing about os2...so what is a fixpak? JB> JB> Simply, a series of improved features and bug fixes all rolled into one big JB> package.. FixPak 26 for Warp 3 needs 13 floppies, and another 2 for the JB> kicker disks.. If you check around for these files: XR_W026.* JB> you'll find some text files which *should* be completely read before JB> attempting to do something unknown.. Well I will do that... thanx fer all the help I think... I don't think that I have any fixpaks unless there are any built into the installation program --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: -= The Dragon's Lair =- (204)269-2164...Wpg.MB (1:348/943) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: E5P00032 Date: 05/15/97 From: BRIAN MURRAY Time: 11:36pm \/To: ANDREW GRILLET (Read 1 times) Subj: Adept echo? Is that what this is now? * In a message originally to Lawrence Lucier, Andrew Grillet wrote: > LL> REAL HPFS, OS/2 BBS alive and well, out there that works!!! 32 Node, > LL> Telenet, PPP, FTP, Everything Built into one package. FREEware....! > LL> Sorry...! > There are others. Such as? I'd love to read of them or see a few URLs. I've been looking and so far I haven't found any other freeware OS/2 BBS packages, just one that's free for non-commercial use, and I've found precious few shareware packages that have as many features. --- * Origin: Fiat Lux - Mostly Harmless Networking (1:209/303) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: E5P00033 Date: 05/17/97 From: ANDREJ BROZ Time: 05:36pm \/To: MARV HUBBARD (Read 1 times) Subj: Adept keeps comin' (Part 2) Hello Marv! Tuesday May 13 1997 21:42, Marv Hubbard wrote to Lawrence Lucier: MH> Just timed it, or tried to when i exited golded and packed out the MH> messages i just posted, 16 of em total, ranging form a couple lines to MH> the longest being about 70 lines long total in 8 different message MH> areas.. (outgoing packet was little over 15k after being zipped). MH> Total time for the outgoing scan, and pack was a bit over 2 seconds, MH> and the Zip Program part of it was nothing more than a blink. Ya MH> wouyld have to set up an auto timing program of some kind to actually MH> time it with, but beleive me, Squish couldn't even come close, even MH> with all Squish style bases... I must ask you to carefully explain this to me - for me even scaning mail areas takes about 45 secs. About PC: Pentum 166, 64MB RAM, C: 420WD D: 1.2GBWD - EIDEs E: & F: 1.0 SCSIs BBS is on D and so is the MSG base. 170324373 bytes used - for the MSG base - I have about Hmmm 370 MSG areas on BBS and about 4- pass-through, 12 points, 3 networks which I'm in and 3 HUBs that feed me... And my usuall toosing stat is like this: GKPR Proc=3591 (399/min), Toss=3258 (362/min), Sent=4993 (554/min) GKPR Runtime, 11 mins 51 secs So how the hell do you do it... MH> Am I spoiled by SPEED with Adept?, You betcha... Nooo wayyy :) Andrej [Team OS/2] --- GoldED/2 3.00.Alpha1+ * Origin: Power Zone: +7 (095) 415-4032 (2:5020/651) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 251 OS2 BBS Ref: E5P00034 Date: 05/17/97 From: ANDREJ BROZ Time: 05:46pm \/To: DAVE THOMAS (Read 1 times) Subj: SIO Hello Dave! Do you have '-' at the end of the SIO command line in CONFIG.SYS? DEVICE=C:\SIO\SIO.SYS (COM1:115200,03F8,IRQ4,-) ^^^ This was undocumented feature :) that releases comm port to other programs - made for BBSs Andrej [Team OS/2] --- GoldED/2 3.00.Alpha1+ * Origin: Power Zone: +7 (095) 415-4032 (2:5020/651)