CompuServe Messages

Mike, I just saw your message today after having come back from Labor Day vacation. What timing! There was NO WAY we were going to download an over-half-a-meg file at 2400bps and current CIS rates just to make a point. But this very day CIS _finally_ saw fit to bless Shreveport, LA with a 14.4 node to take us out of the Dark Ages and into the Rennaisance Era (see GO PHONES / Network Announcements / Recent Additions — they got the phone number wrong and we had to figure out the right one) — about bloody time since Shreveport is the second largest MSA in Louisiana, the largest city in a 150+ mile radius, home to numerous industrial and computer-related firms (including a GM plant, the home offices of Frymaster [makers of the fryers used in McDonalds and other fast-food chains to fry french fries, apple pies, onion rings, and the like], the home offices of Softdisk Publishing [which spun off Id Software, creators of DOOM among others!], our own company, etc. etc. etc.), yet CIS (and, until recently, everyone else including TymNet, TeleNet/SprintNet, and STILL AOLnet and GEIS) treated us like the Nation's Largest Hick Town! And it'll be nicer still once CIS sees fit to usher us into the Modern Era of 28.8 — no doubt when the rest of the country has moved on to the Postmodern Era of ISDN or some such.. Anyway, with us FINALLY being able to download files at reasonable cost, I did go ahead and downloaded SPOOL.ZIP. I'll take a look at it. But if the problem is what was described earlier (the ends of the bitmaps showing up as solid), then the solution is simple: click the [S] button on the Opacity Map listing and set the U Scale to, say, 1.01 (from the default of 1.0), to push the ends of the bitmap just past the ends of the object.