CompuServe Thread

Peter, You're welcome. Hope I was right <g> I semi collect the old games for my A500 and a basic 2000 that I have, so always check the Classifieds in this Forum for great values. How about $50 original price games for $5 and shipping? Since I have no time to Master complex games, these are great to boot when I have a few minutes. >>My reference to time limit refers to the eventual NO CARRIER message on my >>terminal after some time browsing I thought that was probably what you were talking about. Probably a CIS node problem. It happens to me a lot, too. GO FEEDBACK and complain to customer service about it. You might also mention it in the communications section here, the help section, or if running AutoPilot, the AP section of the AmigaVendor Forum. (This also happens to my laptop with WINCIM when I *must* use it online, so doubt if it has anything to do with your Amiga) Enjoy! J i m m y W a l l i s %—————————-%

Peter, Sometimes there are network problems that knock you off the system, even local telephone problems will do that. That's why the unexpected NO CARRIER. CIS does have an idle timeout where if you haven't entered a keystroke for 20 minutes it will presume there's been some problem and hang up on you…which will also lead to a NO CARRIER message. The idle timelimit doesn't work in all areas…for example, it is no active while doing an upload or download. But in any event, if you leave CIS "abnormally" that is…via a hang up, rather than a log off, all your pointers get left as they were when you logged on to a particular forum. Again, let's say you were here in the Amiga forum. You are reading messages and the line gets hung up. Then your high message pointer won't be reset…and it will look as if you've not been here that day. High message pointers get set when you leave a forum's message base legally (no hang up). Going to a library or to one of the conference rooms will re-set you high message pointer. But hanging up, while in the message base (whether on purpose or by accident) will not set your message pointer to your new high message, it will leave it alone…so the next time you come in, it will look as if you haven't read the messages from the last time you were in. Don

Gerald, >>But there is(was?) a time limit for no activity. >>If you do NOTHING at all for 5 minutes or so they will drop the >>connection. Yeah, thank God for that for the times I've been distracted, but I think he indicated that he was unexpectedly interrupted, as I am frequently during downloads and attempted sign-ons. I assumed line, modem or node problems. J i m m y W a l l i s %—————————-%