CompuServe Thread

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#52302From: BILL LEACHFeb 3, 1987 12:45 PM
Bela: Probably did. I didn't look at that one when I next downloaded. I will look closer in the future though since one of the messages that I sent tonight was totally unreadable. I thought that I had seen the last of terrible phone lines when I left North Carolina. HA! San Luis Obispo makes North Carolina look like a dedicated line! ZapCIS must have sent an average of 2 '^U's for every command. If it had been a manual terminal program I would have just given up! The '15' probably used '6-bit ascii' too. 73s, bill
#52490From: Bela Lubkin/SysopFeb 4, 1987 9:26 PM
Yes, unfortunately zapcis isn't >absolutely< reliable (there is a script by Earle Robinson, for the comm program pro-yam, that is reliable enough for him to go to Europe for a month and >count on< its having captured all messages in the interim… but pro-yam's an unfriendly beast!) It's best to watch a zapcis session and abort it (^C) if the line is too noisy. Anyway, zapcis sends a ^U at the beginning of >every< line it sends, just in case. Doesn't cost much and it at least prevents commands from being corrupted in most cases… >Bela<