This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Kurt, CIS has 400,000 users or so – Amiga Forum 10,000+. You can always type GO FEEDBACK to complain about not having a local CIS node. Also, check GO PHONES frequently as CIS is always adding new access numbers. Marlene
#Accessing Again
Message #134316
Keith, I managed to trash my workbench and have since made up a new one. Guess what…..Everything is working fine now. Don't know what the hell I did but it works. I had tried a stock WB before and that same problem was there.I am using a fresh ( just…
Joel, I am very interested, as long as it truly is pd/shareware. I'll definitely put it thru its paces, and let you know what I think. I still need the printer ability, but I am curious – its the first Amiga VT220 emulator I've heard of. Ron
Info Please?
Message #134252
There isn't one. There will be a Navigator-type program for the Amiga tho. (TapCIS clone? With that horrendous user interface? No thanks!)
Info Please?
Message #134232
Just be a LITTLE more patient… it's right around the corner…. Really!
#comm/vt100/printscreen
Message #134222
Ron, I recently downloaded a full-fledged VT220 emulator from another source. If you are interested, I'll put it up here. It is called "Meshugena", and it's quite complete as a VT220, BUT it doesn't have printer capability which I believe is what you really want. It includes a custom font…
I said that if you don't have a lot of bugs, you don't need a huge _service_ department. Updates are not somethinf customers come screaming to you for, Henry – they don't say things like "It ate my Data!" "Why is the cursor on a different line than the one…
No, he needs narrator and translator – he wants to run CoComm, remember… –Ben– (It will work without them, but of course you lose the speech, which is a shame)
There is 1 register that the supra does not support – it has to do with the dialing speed, or, more precisely, the delay between dialing digitits. S11 I *think*. Actually I could be wrong about which register – it has been several months. We sold some "100% compatible Supra…
I was merely poking fun at your comment earlier that business software doesn't need updating, which I disagree with for many reasons. Maybe you can clarify what you said earlier vs what you are saying now..
#134040-
comm/vt100/printscreen
Message #134141
Ron, I've got the source code for one of the vt100 emulators…let me look at it. It should be fairly easy to give you at least the text dump capability either by receiving the print screen command or the keystroke. I'll get back to you on this. Don
#134025-
#HELP! (CoComm)
Message #134139
Mark, Get rid of the demos drawer and all it's contents. Get rid of printer drivers you don't use Get rid of the translator and narrator files Get rid of commands you won't use in the C directory That alone should give you lots of room. Don
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#A2000 Modem Advice
Message #134138
Henry, What kind of p{Dlems has it caused you? I've used the Supra modem with several telecomm packages and it works perfectly. Is it possible that the users aren't setting up their parameters properly…no matter which modem they are using? Don
Oh, no, Henry… I update MY software more often than almost _anybody_. Ask around here… go ahead. . BUT! I do NOT update my software because of a constant stream of bugs. Now and then, I find one, I kill it. But mostly I just add features. I'm well known…
WHAT?? But you're not supposed to update your software!!!! (grin)
No problem. There will be an updated version soon, as well. There are a number of things that have been enhanced, and a few bugs that have been summarily squashed. –Ben–
#HELP! (CoComm)
Message #134105
Thanks for that quick reply..! I'll delete all the things you said, then play around with it until everything fits. After reading the Shortdox, I can't wait to give it a try. I'm sure my $15 will be on its way in no time. Thanks!
#133311-
A2000 Modem Advice
Message #133864
Supra 2400 a very good modem and the price can't be beat either, go for it.
William, Ok, with only one drive, and not booting off the OnLine! disk, then you will have the problems you are having. Try this, I don't know if it will work or not, but it just might and it's worth the try. Copy your OnLine!.trm file onto the root directory…
OK. You've answered my question. You need either 2 drives, or run the program off hard disk. As I've said each time, I use one disk drive. I start Online!.trm (my custom term file) from workbench, I get a system requestor for my WB disk. after putting my WB disk,…
William, Whoops…you should also assign ONLINE!: to where ever you keep your scripts. That's whre the program looks for them. Don't forget the colon in the assign. Don
William, I run off a hard drive and run from the CLI…for me, that's much easier. Ok…here's the steps to get it to do what you want: Run OnLine! and you'll get the default terminal set Load your terminal definition, or set it up and then save it as OnLine!.trm…
#133688-
#ONLINE!
Message #133751
Sorry. The .trm file name is Online!.trm , and it's icon file name is Online!.trm.info . Have'nt changed the filenames of the things since I first transferred it to a non-WB disk. Fact is, the thing appears to require either 2 disk drives (with WB in the other drive) ,…
#133497-
cocomm
Message #133595
Nope, 2K bytes doesn't faze me at all. I must have mis-understood some comments you made earlier (because I have NO use for fonts in such a console) regarding needing attributes as well as fonts. Ah well, brain must be going (I NEED that vacation).
#133106-
comm/vt100/printscreen
Message #133111
Ron, IBM (and clones) have character mapped screens, the Amiga has a bit mapped screen. The IBM stores the character and it's screen handler grabs that character's bit representatin and displays it on screen. To print the screen…all you have to do is print the character. On the Amiga, there…
Too bad. I do wonder why no one has a text/ansi graphic print screen – it would work in text mode without any problem, and is a major part of vt102 + emulation. Ron P.S. At least I won't load down cocomm and not get what I want. Thanks!
Nope, sorry about that. Some subset of the ANSI terminal – whatever the the Amiga console device has built in, that's all. –Ben–
Glad he got some use out of it… that packet config was a pretty good effort, as you might guess from all the files associated with it. Took me about a day, I think, to get it just right. The idea of the buttons is so you can forget the…
#cocomm
Message #132989
Ben, does cocomm also provide vt100 emulation? And to what degree? If I could combine the attributes of the ease of use of online! 2, the screen emulation of handshake, and proper print handling (print screen, control printscreen, and proper host control of printing) I'd be very pleased! Ron
Ben, I showed CoComm to Harry today. His first response was.. "I don't need all those buttons. I can type the commands in faster." But, after showing him around for a while, he admitted he liked it. (He spent half an hour sending CQ's with the Happy-faces in the syms…
BBS
Message #132944
I heard that there is a new BBS system that can run multilines on the Amiga. Is there any truth to this or am I dreaming? Robert
Keith, what does Access! do with the serial port buffer? In my downloads to disk at 2400 baud (simple capture) I have never lost any data. When the buffer was set at 512 with an eariler release of Access!, I would have data loss all the time. Geo
Doug, the current version of OnLine! is 2.10. Ted
Diane, If you have a 2000, then the external drive would be 'df2:' so to type a doc file…. type >prt: df2:Comm/comm.docs Another way to do it is to use the 'copy' command, like this… copy df2:Comm/comm.docs prt: Let me know how it goes. – Keith
'Di', Glad I could help. Like I said, there's usually people in the COnference area here (most nights) if you get stuck. – Keith
#help
Message #132864
Keith: I can't get your suggestion to work because every time I try it I get a can't open df1 error (using 2 drives). Once again, help!
Keith: I believe that you havae been a lifesaver. I'll try these right away and will let you know if it works. Thanks loads. 'Di'
Hi Larry, welcome to the Amiga Forum. Try setting Diga! for 8-N-1 and XON/XOFF disabled. Upload and download at off hours (late night/early morning) if possible. If you continue to have problems it might be the node you're dialing through. If you dial CIS direct then leave a message to…
Ah.. so he did… forgot about that… I'll keep looking, thanks. – Keith
Keith, In a followup message Kurt reports "If I hangup on Compuserve but DON'T close my capture buffer then somemore messages come accross my monitor.". That leads me to believe that 'some more' means different messages other than the 2 that are constantly repeated. Since this happens after disconnect, it…
George, The serial port buffer (ala setable by preferences) is 'changed' by Access! at run time. I too have yet to see th eproblem Kurt describes… but _he_ is having some problem and it sounds like it's 'repeatable' for _him_. Steve A. (sysop here) has also seen it happen, but…
#Upload help needed
Message #132814
Hi, I'm new to the Forum. I'm having problems UPLOADING. I'm running DIGA! on my Amiga 1000 with a Hayes Smartmodem 1200. I keep getting "SOH garbled" errors. What's the trick to uploading?
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#Access
Message #132787
Gee, Kurt, I've been downloading messages twice a week for about six months with Access! without a hitch. My typical download is 300K in size. I capture to DF1: at 2400 baud and have my serial port buffer set to 8000. Geo
Dale, CoComm can read his clock, no problem. It can read it into a temp file in ram, proceedurally build a new time format in another file depending on the contents of the first file, then set the system from that – or it can do it in the reverse…
Does Online! 2.01 open its own screen, or does it still open a window on WB? I prefer the latter. (If I want a program on its own screen, I can always use MWB.) How about protocalls? Has the problem with keymaps in the VT emulations been fixed? I am…
#132584-
#FileZapping ONLINE!
Message #132715
1.2?? You're using the OLD online then. I've got 2.01. It's got overscan, among a great many other additions.
Arcing D/L Files
Message #132680
I seem to be having a problem unarcing my downloaded files. Downloading seems to be all right, but when I "arc" the file I get "WARNING: file xx fails CRC check" this has not happened before and does not happen on all of the files coming out of the "arced"…
#132609-
FileZapping ONLINE!
Message #132663
I've been messing about with Online! version 1.27. It opens a window on the WorkBench. I understand that the current version allows for overscan and interlace. I've ordered it. I just hope that it still opens on the WorkBench and doesn't increase the memory usage too much.
I'll 'need' to when I get the loadable font stuff in… maybe I'll atleast put a 'switch' in the next version. – Keith
Phooey. How about making that optional? I'd like to use Access for testing my serial port control programs. —Mike
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