#JR-Comm
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I'm having a very frustrating time trying to get my JRComm program to
behave as a good comm program should. However, when I log on, I
receive a ton of misplaced characters, like the keymap is screwed
up. My other telecomm programs work fine on CIS.
I've tried setting the keymap, different fonts, stripping escape
codes… ..to no avail. I dl'd this comm program hoping I'd be able
to speed up my data transfer rates with CompuServe B+ and my new 2400
baud modem. Access! works fine -but- uses XModem only. BTW – A500
+ GVP II w/5MB and 80M HD.
Help! I spend 31 cents a minute during non-prime time on CIS, and my
wife is holding a shotgun at my head (after having seen my phone
bill!)
Try putting JR-Comm in VT100 mode and set 8n1 It should work. I used
Jr-Comm before by I use GP-Term a Australian Product.
John…
Thanx, I'll give that a try.
– Lorenz K. Sievers –
Have you tried logging on despite the garbled characters? When I log
on with JRComm at 8n1, I get garbled characters asking for my user number,
but once entered, the request for my password comes through clearly. At 7n1
(what I originally signed up with), it all comes through clearly.
Edward…
No, I haven't gone past the User Number request. Sounds like a good plan
though… I'll try that as well as the other ideas posted to this thread.
Thanks for the help!
– Lorenz K. Sievers –
Lorenz;
While I have JRComm, I don't use it so can't help there. However, if you
are not using AmigaDOS 2.x, you can still use Access! and have QuickB too.
I don't know the file name and am not really sure if its still on CIS but
there was a program that added the QuickB protocol to Access!
I'm pretty sure that Betty will know about the file.
-bill/ARS KB7LX
Bill…
Thanks for the reply. I was searching through the docs to Access! and saw
that L-Amiga-b toggles Quick-B, however not sure how that works. I'll give
it a try, and if it does… I'll mail Keith Young the $25 shareware
registration fee. Thanks again!
Lorenz;
Good move. Many of us would like to see Keith produce an improved and
updated version of his program. I am sure that he would like to do so.
Sending the registration for the 'current' version would not hurt his
attitude about doing a 'future' version. Thanks,
-bill/ARS KB7LX
Bill,
I know that I like to get paid when I finish a job. :>
– Lorenz K. Sievers –
Lorenz;
I plan to pay for Keith's new version (if and when he does one) even if I
choose not to use it. His contribution to the Amiga programming community
deserves a 'vote' of thanks (in my opinion).
There are a number of people that have produced PD, FreeWare, ShareWare and
commercial programs that have, in the process, contributed a tremendous
amount of support for our favorite machine. These are people that have
been so helpful to the rest of us when we were trying to figure out how to
accomplish some task on the Amy (often times with a competing product).
There is a pretty high percentage of the folks that I am talking about
right here on CIS AmigaForums.
-bill/ARS KB7LX
Bill,
Agreed, shareware, freeware, et al… all have helped me learn to expand my
machine's horizons, not to mention gaining tremendous personal satisfaction
while other folks would sit and gripe about AmigaDOS this and AmigaDOS
that.
How many times have we seen shareware and freeware ideas automagically
appear in later OS revisions!
– Lorenz K. Sievers –
Lorenz;
Quite true, many ideas developed by PD/FreeWare/ShareWare authors were
later used in the OS and of course, some straight commercial stuff has
appeared there too.
While 2.x was definately a multi-person effort and many people both within
and outside C= itself deserve our thanks for their efforts at making 2.x a
solid OS, I believe that Bill Hawes can quite clearly be considered the
single most important person outside C= for his prodigious efforts to
improve AmigaDOS. His beta test efforts and bug reporting methods helped
to find problems that had been illusive for years.
-bill/ARS KB7LX
I'd like to second that (re: Bill Hawes)… we are all indebted to him.
– Keith
I wonder what it would take to start a Users Group of two? :> My wife
and I would make a majority?
– Lorenz K. Sievers –
– via Whap!
Bill,
Now that's an area where I am definitely a tourist. AREXX intrigues me
and at the same time I am a bit intimidated about learning the language.
I guess I need to see someone else using it and observe some practical
applications where I could use it here in our facility. Trouble is, there
aren't any other Amiga users within 500 miles (at least that I am aware
of.)
– Lorenz K. Sievers –
– via Whap!
Lorenz;
Of course you can get help here naturally. Most of us would be willing to
try to assist you in learning the language.
Probably the first thing to do is to type: rx "trace ?r;nop"
This will allow you to interactively enter some of the rexx commands
directly to the interpreter.
Popping a CLI and a text editor up together to allow you to enter a
program, save and execute all with pretty simple operations.
Also, recommend getting some of the simpler rexx program examples from
here, Fish, or some of the magazines. Play around with modifications, and
insert trace statements to see how they actually work.
I think you will be surprised at just how fast you will be able to pick up
on how rexx programming works… remember though, that its' ease is
deceptive. While doing things in Rexx is really easy, there are often much
better ways to perform operations than the first obvious choice(s). Don't
let that deter you though.
-bill/ARS KB7LX
Bill,
How do I get a liscensed version of AREXX?
– Lorenz K. Sievers –
– via Whap!
Lorenz,
Depending on which version of Access! you have, Quick-B may be enabled
by default (if you hit L-Amiga-b and it says "..now disabled" then it was
already enabled by default).
The reason it wasn't listed in the menus is that that protocol is an
'auto-initiated' protocol… once you've told Compuserve what file you want
and have told Compuserve that you want to use Quick-B (or B-Plus, depending
on what version of Access you have, see the docs) it will ask you for a
"filename for your computer:". Give it the full path/filename where you
want the file on your machine and sit back — it's all automatic from then
on.
Cheers,
Keith
Keith,
I'm experimenting with version 1.42 of Access! It appears that Quick-B is
the supported protocol (verified by L-Amiga-b.) I really enjoy the
polished appearance and thus-far "glitch free" operation.
I will send you the cash this week. BTW, I don't have the docs handy,
(although
they are around here somewhere.) Could you post the address to send it
to? Thanx again.
– Lorenz K. Sievers –
Lorenz,
Thanks for the comments… while mail going to the address in the
'About' menu still forwards correctly to me, my new address is:
Keith Young
5912A Victoria dr.
Upper Marlboro, Md.
20772
– Keith
Lorenz;
I seem to remember that now… You hit the LCommand B and basically nothing
happens except that when you go online to dl a file, Access! automagically
has it sent via QuickB.
-bill/ARS KB7LX
Bill,
.and here I've been using XModem for the past three weeks or so! It's like
my wallet suddenly breathes new life!
– Lorenz K. Sievers –
Lorenz;
Oh yea! XModem (or at least Ward Christinsen sp?) deserves a major vote of
thanks from the telcom community. XModem was the first really practical
transfer protocol for binary files on micros.
ZModem is a vast improvement over XModem and QB is faster yet.
-bill/ARS KB7LX
Bill,
I remember using the old "Starterm" program in 1985 and thinking… "Gee
Wally, this is really swell… being able to use the computer on the phone
and junk!" Several years and many term programs and computers later, I
must also tip my hat to those memories and early programs. They are what
wet my appetite to continue plodding along with AmigaDOS 1.0 an such.
It's a little over six years later, and here I am… still kicking and
glad I didn't sell that A1000 to buy a Laird CG.
– Lorenz K. Sievers –
– via Whap!
Lorenz;
I believe that Access! prevented my going to Starterm. I do remember the
program as I remember my search for something that would work better than
OnLine! (that part wasn't too difficult as everything worked better than
OnLine!).
I think I was so enamored by Access! that I just looked at most of the
'competition' and went back to Access!
-bill/ARS KB7LX
Lorenz,
Access! uses QuickB protocols as default. When you are ready to download,
tell CIS you want QuickB protocols, and the download will proceed
automatically once you have given the path and name for your computer to
use.
Betty
Betty,
On the DL menu I see B, B+ and QB. Which is best (or should I say
supported by Access!)? I've successfully used B, but will QB work as well?
Thanks in advance.
– Lorenz K. Sievers –
Lorenz,
B+ is the best to use followed by QB and then B. You'll need to check
the docs (Update.txt and/or Access!me) to see which protocol that version
supports (Access! v1.42 supports B+).
The B protocols are backwardly compatable in the order I listed them, so
if the term supports B+, you can use any of the above, if it supports QB,
you can use QB or B and if it only supports B, you can only use B.
– Keith
Keith,
Thanks for the information. It's really tremendous being able to
continue using CIS after the time I would normally log off due to cost
constraints.
– Lorenz K. Sievers –
– via Whap!
Lorenz, I think it depends on the version of Access you are using. I think
version 1.4 uses QuickB, and I believe Keith said that 1.42 uses B+.
The difference between the two is that B+ will let you restart an
interrupted download at the place where transmission stopped rather than
having to redo the entire file. For that reason, B+ is the most desirable,
followed by QuickB.
Betty
Betty,
Thanks for the reply. As I told Keith, it's absolutely amazing the time
and cash I am already seeing saved by using B+. I Appreciate the help.
– Lorenz K. Sievers –
– via Whap!