#CIS Amiga Software?
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Howdy, I'm a A500 owner still running under WB 1.3. My main use for my compute
is telecommunications with BBS's. The main reason I don't make more use of
Compuserve than I do now is I'm doing all my manuerving online with my term
prgm. I wondering if there is software out there for the Amiga similiar to the
custom CIS software that exists for MS-DOS & Windows. Even better would be a
off-line reader like Bluewave that could function with the forums. Is there
anything like that available or is the Amiga an orphan here? Thanks.
Tony,
We have a great piece of software for the Amiga, but it requires 2.04 or later.
If you can update to 2.04, look in AmigaVendor for AutoPilot. I think it will
do everything you want and more. I don't think I'd want to manage CIS without
it. Look in Library 9 for AP.LHA if you want it, but it definitely will not
work with 1.3. Must have 2.04 or later, 2M memory, and a hard drive.
Tony,
The Amiga is not an orphan in this respect, but unfortunately, _your_
Amiga is.
There is an excellent automatic navigator/off-line reader available for
the Amiga, called AutoPilot. A functional demo is available for
downloading from Library 9 of the AmigaVendor forum.
The downside is that AutoPilot requires version 2.04 or higher of the
Workbench software, which means that you cannot currently run it on your
system unless you upgrade to a more current operating system.
– BobR
There is an offline reader for CIS, but it requires >2.x or greater.
Nothing is available for 1.3.
Steve
There's a program called BackTalk that is usable on 1.3 that will allow you
to work CompuServe with reasonable efficiency.
It is possible to speed up the whole message-collecting process even with a
general purpose telecomms program. The trick is to set the following options:
Use menus: No
Stop mode: Never
Editor: Not the line editor (if you want to pour in input from
previously prepared canned text on disk).
This must be done within each Forum.
Set these options (I think you can do it by typing a single line that looks
like OP;UM NO;SM N;ED E;S .. but try this stuff in the Practice session). Then
command, say, READ NEW and capture everything to a file.
With most terminal programs, you could arrange to do most of this with a
script file, or on function keys.
Sending replies is tricker, and you might feel more at ease staying with the
line editor and sending those manually.
There's likely lots of support information around telling you how to do this,
but I'm not the best person to tell you exactly where to find it on CompuServe
(anyone?)
–Jim