CompuServe Messages

First, my apologies for not replying to your e-plex; ye olde flu bug had me down for a few days. I'll merge the the relevant archives into one, and upload it here as soon as I can. "From what experience I've had w/Dillon-ware so far, I'm sure there are LOTS of small details that could get in the way me accomplishing what I would like to if even the tiniest little piece is omitted." Heh, yeah, you're right. 🙂 Still, once you get it going, DNet is great! I've had multiple shell windows going, along with an up- and down-load running, all simultaneously. At 2400 bps, the response time is pretty slow, and painting the screen is pretty jerky, but it *does* work. I find that reading Usenet News is okay with everything running like that, but trying to edit a file is — ah -painful. Deathly slow, is more like it. However, without the file transfers, editing works pretty well, even at 2400 bps, and multiple shells are no trouble at all. (I'm on pins and needles waiting for my v.32bis modem to arrive. *That* ought to take care of the packet delays!) The parts that people seem to have trouble with are getting the dnet.servers files correct, getting the parity and protocol handling settings correct, and getting the Unix end of the program to compile. DNet only compiles under BSD, or a close clone (e.g., SunOS). I don't know of anybody who's gotten it to compile and run under any flavor of System V. (If anybody out there has done so, *PLEASE* let me know!) BTW, v2.13 isn't really defunct. In fact, the 2.13 Amiga binaries are what I'm running right now. Matt pulled some boners when he assembled the v2.20 archive, and he got the wrong binaries installed for the Amiga side. It's been working well enough for me that I've not been motivated to try and re-compile them. Oh well, I've rambled on enough. Time to Whap! the Forums and Libraries…