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1 If you are in need of help, you need but ask....
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2 ************************ INSTALLED: 8 MAR 86 ***********************
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3 Welcome to BWMS (BackWater Message System) Mike Day System operator
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4 ************************************************************
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5 GENERAL DISCLAIMER: BWMS IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY INFORMATION
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6 PLACED ON THIS SYSTEM.
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7 BWMS was created as an electronic bill board. BWMS is a privately owned
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8 and operated system which is currently open for use by the general public.
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9 No restrictions are placed on the use of the system. As the system is
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10 privately owned, I retain the right to remove any and all messages which
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11 I may find offensive. Because of the limited size of the system, it will be
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12 periodically purged of messages. (only 629 lines of data can be saved)
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13 To leave a message, type 'ENTER' and use ctrl/C or break to get out of the
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14 ENTER mode. The message is automatically stored. If after entering the
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15 message you find you made a mistake, use the replace command to replace
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16 the line. To exit from the system, type 'OFF' then hang up.
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17 Type 'HELP' to see other commands that are available on the system.
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18 ***************************************************************************
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19
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20 Voyuer: I'm unaware of any problem, but I'll check into it. I've never
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21 had a glitch before, but it is always possible for a first time. I don't
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22 check the files as a rule, because after a year of transferring files
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23 with absolutly no errors I got tired of doing so, as it took a great deal of
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24 time, so I rely on the system of telling that something went wrong, which
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25 it usually does. Ala read error. I've never had a problem copying files on
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26 my CPM system, but that is because it took me two years of programming and
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27 mucking around with the 1771/1793 disk controller to find out how to
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28 handle it with out getting any errors. It has a distinct habit of letting
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29 errors through unanounce unless you know how to deal with it. (it has to
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30 do with head bounce, yes, head bounce on a floppy, the most common cause
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31 of soft errors on a floopy disk - that is if the drivers don't know how to
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32 deal with it)... where was I? Oh yeah, I'll check into it and get back to you.
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33 *************************** CISTOP MIKEY *********************************
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34 `,`,`,`,`,`,`,`
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35
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36 help
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37 Could someone please leave the number of a ibm bbs or other 1200 baud bbs #
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38 Here for me sometime this week? Ill check back next saturday am for response. T
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39 hanks Bill Wendle Hello Portland!"!
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40 download
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49 a
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51 """"""""""""""""""
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52 Soli took one last look around the Inn. He was no longer to visit it as
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53 he would like, but he stilled stopped in when he could and see what was about.
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54 Stories he used to follow closely were now sometimes hard to understand, but
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55 that was to be expected. He smiled, sure that he had listened to all there
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56 was to hear. He made a small guesture and muttered a few words. And with
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57 that, he disappeared...
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58 """"""""""""""""""(ch /longer/longer able/)Soli...
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59 Also ch /stilled/still/. Stupid mental glitches...
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60 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\THE DESTROYER\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\47
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61 "You're lying!" James snarled, "She took a twenty millimeter slug in the stomach and died in my arms! Damn it, I...
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62 I watched her die!" The bitter memory brought tears to his eyes for about the hundredth time.
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63 Marannon shook her head. "Tariya is resting in her chambers at my palace in a healing trance. Her wound was
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64 grievious, and it will be several weeks before she is fully recovered."
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65 He wanted to ask how, but did it really matter? "Did... did she say anything about me?"
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66 "She hasn't regained conciousness. But she will recover completely, in time. But right now you should be more
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67 concerned with your own fate. Fortunately for you, I am not without gratitude." She reached into a pocket and pulled
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68 out a small gem. It pulsed with a radiant blue light in perfect synch with James' heartbeat, responding to his power
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69 even at that distance. Staring at it, he finally managed to struggle to his feet. Instantly he felt stronger. "I
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70 believe this is what you have been searching for."
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71 She came forward a step and placed the gem in his palm. The second he touched it, the light died. What he was
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72 holding might as well have been a piece of glass. "What's the matter with it?"
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73 "A precaution I have taken. You see, the gem has been placed under a very powerful oathspell. You must swear an
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74 oath before you can use it, and if you later break the oath, the gem's power will fade and you will die."
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75 He looked at her suspiciously. "And what kind of oath am I supposed to swear?"
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76 "Oh, a very simple one," she said offhandedly. "One that will cost you little. You must never attempt to see or
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77 have any contact with Tariya again."
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78 His mouth fell open and it took a minute before he could speak. "Why?"
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79 Still offhandedly, she explained. "You see, my daughter loves you very much. More than you probably imagine. But
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80 you are a bad influence on her. You posess great power and almost never use it responsibly. You are dangerous. Tariya
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81 deserves better than that. When she awakes, she will be told that, regrettably, you died in the assault on the council
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82 building. Her feelings will be shattered, but she will survive and ultimately be better off."
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83 He stared at her for a long moment. "No." He finaly said, "That's not it at all. You're afraid of me. When I
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84 finally get all my power back I'll be a threat to you and whatever dictatorship you're gonna start. You think that by
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85 separating me from Tariya that you'll never have to worry about me again. Right?"
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86 Surprisingly, she wouldn't meet his eyes. "Think what you will, the bargain stands. Your life for Tariya."
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87 He looked at her, his eyes full of pain. His voice was almost pleading. "But I love her."
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88 She snorted. "Love! What do you know of love?" She continued, "You're young. And soultappers have incredibly long
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89 lifespans, should they survive their adventures. Thousands of years. Leaving now will be very hard but you will be
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90 surprised at how quickly the wound heals. The galaxy is full of young, beautiful girls. Take the oath, and go find
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91 yourself a new life elsewhere. If you don't," Her face darkened, "You will die. The cancer is burning through your
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92 blood even as we speak. You can feel it. Your power will no longer hold it back at all. Without the gem, you will have
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93 no more than six weeks."
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94 Six weeks. The words fell on him like the thud of a tomb door. he stared at the cold, lifeless gem in his hand.
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95 Memories played through his mind. His meeting tariya at the Inn. Her offering of her life to escape the dimensional
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96 prison. Waking up in a stasis coffin to find her warm, smiling face looking down at him. Her dying (he thought)
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97 declaration of love for him.
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98 He had no other chance. The gem was one-of-a-kind. He could search a thousand years for another. But he only had
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99 six weeks. It made perfect sence. With a potential lifespan of millenia, he could go anywhere, do anything he wanted.
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100 Despite all the problems he had, he enjoyed his life as the Destroyer immensely. So much potential was left, just
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101 waiting to be touched. He didn't want to die yet. And he didn't have to. All he had to do was betray Tariya. When it
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102 came right down to it, the choice was very simple, as most choices are.
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103 He closed his hand on the gem and made a fist. He squeezed as hard as he could, the cords in his wrist standing
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104 out. There was a muffled crunch in his fist. When he opened it up a shower of glittering shards fell to the floor.
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105 When he looked up again his face was full of fierce, cold determination.
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106 "I'll be back."
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107 Without another word, he turned and walked out of the shattered chamber. She didn't bother to follow. Instead, she
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108 just stood there, staring at the pile of shards.
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109 He gave it up. He was gambling that he would find another cure before his time ran out. If he did...
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110 God help her.
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111 She felt a sudden chill in the air and shuddered a little. She told herself firmly that he had thrown away his
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112 chance. He had already been looking for two years with no success. Now he was right back where he started. Worse than
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113 when he started. In six weeks, she wouldn't have to worry about him any more.
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114 Not that she had time to worry now. She had a planet to rebuild and a brand new empire to take charge of. It
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115 wouldn't be easy, she knew, but she could do it. She had spent years planning just how.
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116 She put the Destroyer out of her thoughts and instead put her mind to the task at hand.
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117 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\THE DESTROYER\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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119 Please excuse the stupid spelling errors. I was concentrating on some
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120 thing sl~~else...
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122 ______________________________JD 2446498.6857______________________________
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123 on
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125 off
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126 Hi. I am Syd. Enjoying this BBS.If I need validation or you want to talk, call 7
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127 760-xxxx
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128 Sorry about the garbage in last message. I'm used to a different format. Syd.
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129 Hello, I'm Chuck Lewis Tualatin,Ore.
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130 97062. (503) 692-xxxx. I'm looking for some Secretarial
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131 Support Work for my small business. We do Resumes, Class
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132 Papers and the like. Give us a call and see what we can do.
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137 end
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138 bye
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139 bye
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140 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++;++++++++++++++++++++++
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141 P.V. Jeltz: I have succeeded in logging on M.U.X. The outer password,
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142 "LETMEINYOURBBS" must be in all caps. Rubout (H7F) is used instead of BS (H08).
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143 Right now, only upper case is supported.
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144 ++++++++
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145 freddy: Your analogy of the people pushing the boulder isn't quite accurate.
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146 We don't all push simultaneously. One person pushes it this way, then someone
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147 else takes his turn and pushes it that way. Sometimes the stories go 'round
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148 in circles, but more often the stories meander their way towards the group goal.
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149 +++++++++
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150 "Look! Look at Piper!"
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151 Somehow Milchar found himself saying these words. They hadn't been pushed out
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152 of his mouth in the mundane manner, but rather leaped out of their own accord.
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153 Piper reached out a hand. "Milchar -- how? Cragmore? Innkeeper! His lungs
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154 must be nearly eaten away by the gas!"
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155 Just then the relief was so intense I nearly did not hear him. Cragmore tried
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156 to explain the situation to him and apologize to the rest of the group at the
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157 same time. Milchar nodded to him and told him it was not necessary to
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158 apologize for an opinion.
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159 Piper seemed to be breathing without much trouble. Milchar smiled with the
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160
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161 satisfaction of a job well done, and again lay his head down. He listened to
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162 the others as they talked, and replied as he had to. It was time to begin
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163 the restoration of his poewer.
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164 +++++++++++++++++++++++ Milchar +++++++++ 08 Mar 86 at 10:42pm +++++++++++++++
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165 ++Pardon the use of first person: ch /I/Milchar/, ch/ /poewer/power/, whatever
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166 else. Must've ground a few mental gears shifting from 3rd to 1st person. ++++
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167 :::::::::::::O O::::::::03/08:::::::::::::::::::::22:54:::::O O::::::::::::::::
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168 CISTOP: I took another look at the Archive files with the problems, and what I
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169 found is rather interesting (*I* think). With the exception of the first two
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170 flakey files, the problems in all the others ALL occur on a certain marker
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171 consisting of ->128<- backslashes. When the 128 character line of "\\\"'s
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172 occur, the following line is appended to it. No room in your I/O buffer for
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173 the CR/LF when the entire sector is full of slashes?
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174 The problem with the other two files (30Dec85 & 09Jan86) also has to do with
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175 long lines, but They didn't happen to be the backslashes. An example:
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176 247 The secretary of Defense, a man known for being cool under fire, eased into
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177 the conversation. The President had great respect f248 and he listened, as did
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178 every man in the room. All eyes were riveted on the gentle features of this
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179 great negotiator as the man 249 "First I will summarize "...
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181 What it boils down to, I think, is that MA 128 causes problems for more than
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182 just FA & FI. I was able to fix the \\\\ entries by hand, since no data was
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183 lost, but the entry above (from 30DEC85) seems to have lost some words, as
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184 did 09JAN86. I sure hope your CP/M version is intact if your MS-DOS isn't.
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185 :::::::::::::O O::::::::::::::::::voyeur::::::::::::::::::O O::::::::::::::::::
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186 \\\\\\\\\\\\\uh-oh...\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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187 #$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$
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188 The Hell Machine
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189 (3)
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191 Frank slowly picked himself up off the floor. Battery powered backup lights were beginning to flicker on. The air
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192 was filled with the sharp stink of ozone and melted plastic and metal. Though his voice made his head hurt even worse,
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193 he yelled out, "Hey! Somebody speak to me! Is everyone all right?"
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194 Norbert groaned, "Not me. Feels like they nuked my cerebellum."
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195 "You and me both. Jean! Doug! Say something!" he called down into the semidarkness.
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196 "Something." Doug called back, giggling a little.
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197 "We're... all right." Jean said slowly. She shook her head, trying to clear it. The fog was slowly lifting. "If I
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198 knew what one felt like, I could say whether or not we just experienced a psychic feedback."
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199 "It was a trip, I can say that." Norbert commented, still a little groggy. He looked over his instruments. "Crap!
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200 Everything's burned out. I got no power anywhere."
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201 "I could have told you that just from smelling the air." Frank replied. He tried the backups but they were dead,
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202 too. So was the ventilation. "Jean? Since you're next to the door, would you care to prop it open so we don't
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203 suffocate? By the way, what's a psychic feedback? Never heard of it."
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204 Norbert suddenly gasped, "Holy sh- Look!" and pointed to the back of the lab.
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205 The materialization platform was hidden from direct view by the lead shielding but the fading glow being reflected
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206 off the walls and ceiling behind it told them something was happening. Cautiously, the four got up and approached it.
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207 Doug kept to the back, a knowing smile on his face.
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208 "Stay here." Frank said, as he went around the shield. He appeared a second later, holding a large object in his
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209 hands. It was a statue of a nude woman, about three feet high, and formed in such perfect detail that it could not have
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210 been made by human hands. The most amazing thing about it was that it appeared to be made of solid gold. Jean saw from
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211 the way Frank's muscles were standing out that it must have been heavy. She hoped he didn't hurt himself.
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212 Frank set it down on its base with a grunt. "I got into this field to get away from hard work. Could that be real
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213 gold?"
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214 "I thought we were trying for a cylinder." Jean said.
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215 "Sorry." Doug said. His eyes were fixed on the statue. He went over to admire it closer. He ran his hands over its
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216 smooth curves. "It's beautiful, isn't it?"
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217 "Yes it is." Frank assured him. "Jesus! Solid gold? How the hell did we do that? It must be worth a fortune!"
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218 "Yeah," Norbert said, "probably about one-fifth the cost of the equipment we blew up. Not a very profitable scheme.
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219 'sides, considering all the variables that we couldn't control, more likely it's an alloy that looks and weighs close
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220 to gold." He leaned closer for a better look. "The detail's fantastic, though. You can even see the hairs on her-"
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221 "Norbert!" Jean said warningly.
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222 "Oh. Uh, sorry." He blushed bright red and busied himself checking damage.
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223 "Anyway," Frank said, "We'll have to get a sample upstairs to the matallurgy boys for analysis and identification.
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224 Then we'll know for sure. We can probably take some off the base-"
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225 "NO!" Doug screamed. He threw his arms around the statue protectively. "Don't damage it! You can't!" He looked
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226 pleadingly at Jean, "Miss Lambert! Please don'T let them hurt it! Please!"
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227 Startled by the vehemence of Doug's reaction, Jean hastily reassured him. "Don't worry, Douglas. I won't let them.
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228 Calm down." Frank looked at her in disbelief and she took his arm and led him to the back of the room. Speaking softly
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229 so Doug couldn't hear her, she said, "Tell me, doesn't that statue look familiar?"
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230 Frank replied, "Well, I can't say I recognize the body, but I think I know the face. That's his ex-wife, isn't it?"
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231 "Exactly. It's obvously an idealized image of her and he can't bear the thought of it being damaged. I think we
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232 should humor him on this, at least until later. There's no rush. Maybe I can convince him to-"
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233 Suddenly the lab door slammed open. Standing there, panting, was Dudley Wilson, one of the computer nerds from
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234 upstairs. He was frantic about something. "I... out there... the mountain..." he puffed incoherently.
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235 Norbert grabbed him by the shoulders and said, "Calm down, guy! Calm down. What about what mountain?"
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236 Dudley regained his composure a little. "It's-it's gone! Mount Hood just vanished into thin air!"
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237
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238 (To Be Continued...)
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239 #$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$# J.D. SILVERMAN $#$#$#$#$#$
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240 !##!NDS!##!
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241 __________________________________________________________________________
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242
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243 About that new 36 line BBS system called the M.U.X. SYSTEM.... Does anyone
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244 know what "terminal type" it requires? I did try to get on the system with
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245 an Apple using my "Pro-Ez" comm. software, but M.U.X said "incompatible
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246 terminal" and disconnected me. I'm very new at telecomputing and don't
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247 understand....
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248 __________________________________________________________________________
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250 Voyeur: Your deductions are close to the mark, I've been going through the
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251 archive disks, and discovered as you did that the lines that are 128 long
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252 have the problem associated with them. Luckily I happen to have the 30Dec85
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253 BW disk still intact, and looked through it with a disk utility program.
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254 Surprise, the archive disk *is* a carbon copy of the BW disk. It seems that
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255 when the line is exactly 128 characters long that no carriage return is put
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256 on the disk. (The CR is how the system knows it is at the end of the line
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257 in the given sector.) But since a 128 character line fills the entire sector
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258 there is no need for a CR right? Sooooo.... now the transfer utility adds in
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259 the various pieces of information that are not a part of the disk, such as
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260 line numbers and the tag line indicating how many lines are in the file.
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261 It looks for a CR in each sector, and uses that to determine that it
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262 has reached the end of the current line, and throws away the rest of the
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263 sector. Then it adds a LF to the end, and go gets the next sector. But,
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264 if it doesn't see a CR, it can't transfer it to the file, nor of course add
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265 the LF. So, what you see in those files is an exact copy of what was on the
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266 BW disk. No CRs.
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267 So how come nobody complained about this before? I'm sure there have
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268 been other 128 line entries in the past. Hmmm strange. Anyhow, the transfer
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269 utility has been fixed, and it nows adds the proper CR/LF even if there is none.
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270 So, don't worry about the lost data, there wasn't any. Apparently the lines
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271 in question were the result of someones upload that wasn't paying attenion
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272 to the line lengths on BW, and tried to send 132 character lines or somthing.
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273 So the lost characters have always been lost, because they never got onto
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274 BW in the first place.
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275 The end result to all of this is, put a CR/LF at the appropriate place
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276 in the file, and you're alright.
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277 ********************************* CISTOP MIKEY ******************************
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278 Mikey- you are right about the above. The entry that mentions the Secretary of State was uploaded, and I made the lines
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279 long. I set the margin at 120, but went ovet that in several lines, so nothing was lost. It just never got on. Sorry for
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280 the inconvenience, I'll watch this next time. [*=*] DELTA FIVE [*=*]
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281 L'homme: will Super Utility read DS disks? If so, we may be able to save
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282 some space in the xfers. (Assuming I get that DS drive hooked up soon!)
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283 I'm as long as your using a format that I have to use SU on anyway....
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284 (oops ch /I'm/I mean/ mental glitch...)
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285 ______________________Leonard_JD 2446499.4620____________________________
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286 ################################################################################
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287 ## ##
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288 ##
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289 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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290 So i was walking into k-mart when i saw the 'blue light special' light snap on a
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291 nd........
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292 i went to by some baby fish huggies for a school of fish my mother was teaching
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293 and said............
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294 CONTINUE
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295 fish huggi
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296 fish hugg
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297 fish huggi
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298 what?
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299 off
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300 cntrl-c
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301 help
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302 list
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304 print
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305 ma 10
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306 fish huggi
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307 ies?
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308 huggies?
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309 what are t
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310 hey i cont
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311 inued!!!!!
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312 who are yo
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313 u the k-ma
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314 rt lady in
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315 blue said.
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316 .......
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317 `,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`
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318 Apple User: You mentioned something about your "Pro-Ez" communications
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319 Software... I was just wondering what that was and where you got it from.
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320 I am also a Apple User and have been calling with the Ascii Express software
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321 for around two years. Please leave information on this board if you would be
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322 so kind.
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323 `,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`,`Mark.
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324
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325 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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326 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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327
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328 ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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329 hi! morrissey.........3/9/86.......................1:45am..........
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330 ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
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331 to the APP.User: It said that to me also. So I tried holding the shift key
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332 down while typing the entrance line. Once in it didn't matter. I was valid-
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333 ated in 24hr.
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334 #$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$# Madwand #$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#$#
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335
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336 ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp thinking ... (ouch) pppppppppppppppppppppppppp
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337 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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338 I know you are all getting a little sick of my borders, but I thought since
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339 I was planning on changing the name of this system to the JD SILVERMAN/
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340 DESTROYER personal board, the borders are appropriate, don't you think? Just
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341 wait, in time, when I get more stories started, I'll be able to take up 400
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342 and more lines out of every 629 on the system. Just wait! I've got a couple
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343 more in the cooker right now.
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344 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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345 PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
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346 OUCH
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347 oh no please dont th
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348 reatin us with anoth
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349 er of your long dull
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350 never ending or begi
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351 nning stories!
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352 We can barely take
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353 reading through your
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354 trash you like to ca
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355 ll literature,now!
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356 ////////////////////
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357 ////////////////////
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358 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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359 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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360 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::z:=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====
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361 Piper: Ok. Here goes.
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362 :::::=====:::::
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363 Straxi had been studying the aliens for some time now. They`had`suddenly
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364 appeared out of nowhere while Straxi had been tending xihis Maniquart herd. They
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365 couldn't breath chlorine, but as to how they had solved that problem Straxi was
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366 uncertain. Straxi rushed back to his home and returned with a translator,
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367 hoping he could make contact with |hthe creatures, who didn't speak common
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368 H'ran. Straxh turned the dial on his teleporter belt to match the location
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369 f t bo
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370 of the alien's`ship. He felt the tug of the teleportation. As he entered the
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371 ship, he gagged on the strange air within. Quickly, he put on his status
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372 helmet, which brought on the refreshing air of his homeworld. BSuddenly he
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373 realized that all eyes were o~ n him. How foolish he had been. If he thought
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374 that these creatures wdreere alien, then they couldn't help but feel the same way
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375 about him. His three fingers fumbled across the controls of the translator,
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376 as the device scanned the aliens , trying to find the correct frequency. WHhile
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377 his first two hands were occupied with txhat task, the other two were adjusting
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378 the helmet he wore over his small, turtle tlike head.
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379 Straxi finally found the correct frequency for his translator, and for
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380 the first time, he spoke to the aliens.
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381 "Hello. I am Straxi,` of the planet H'an. W-welcome. `W ho are you?"
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382 :::::=====
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383 Piper: How's that?
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384 :::::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::==Zephyr::=====:::::=====:::::=====:::::=====
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385 ::::::::::::::O O::::::::3/10:::::::::::::::::::::::18:23::::::O O:::::::::::::
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386 CISTOP MIKEY: you're right about the 128-character lines not being a new
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387 problem - I looked back through the Archives from Jan '85 forward, and found
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388 about 15 occurrences. I guess nobody looked closely enough before.
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389 (If I'm not reading the stupid things, why am I spending so much money on
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390 buying them...?)
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391 ::::::::::::::O O::::::::::::::::::voyeur::::::::::::::::::::::O O:::::::::::::
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392 Zephyr:
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393 Find a new backspace key. Your old one doesn't work right.
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394 ---------------------------
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395 ______________________________JD 2446500.6307______________________________
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396 "This is getting ridiculous" thought Bard as the alien appeared. "I
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397 hope we don't get any more visitors 'popping in'" was his comment to the
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398 others.
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399 "Why not?" asked Cragmore.
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400 "In case you haven't noticed, we're running out of room in here!"
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401 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~BARD~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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402 Folks, remember, this vehicle isn't much bigger than a small truck. No
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403 dimensional folds. Pilot & co pilot seat in front, a doorway between them,
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404 two bunks in back, and a lot equipment... I figure about 8 human-sized
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405 creatures max... & the life support may not handle that many....
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406 maybe we should set up a shelter?
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407 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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408 methinks s
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409 toryline
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410 herenot
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411 goodvery
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412 plagerism
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413 much like
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414 homeworld
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415 garbage
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416 and
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417 safeplace
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418 likesounds
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419 Zephyr the
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420 Rabbit In
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421 mode teen.
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422 Good msg
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423 bd.oldhow
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424 the sysop?
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425 12or less
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426 methink.
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427 mediocracy
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428 say 'BYE'
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429 Can you
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430 say
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431 functional
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432 ly?
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433 illiterate
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434 ?
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435 ma40
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436 i agree not much of a story! but what dy
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437 do you expect for free?????????
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438 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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439 ////////////////////////////////////////
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440 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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441 ////////////////////////////////////////
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442 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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443 ////////////////////////////////////////
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444 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/
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445 ///////////////////////////////////////\
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446 \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/
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447 /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
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448 /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
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449 Great pattern eh?
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450 ****************************************
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451 Ya! good pattern
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452 much better
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453 than 90% of the stuff on here!!!!
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454 i agree THE DESTROYER////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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455 HMM........ This is my first time on this system.. It looks as though its a
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456 good one. Trying to figure it out will be lota fun. Well, here goes...
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457 my name is Ron Pyle. Hope that doesn't present a problem on this board.
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458 print
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459
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460
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461
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462
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463 M
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464
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465
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466 MENU
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467 .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
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468 Ron Pyle: No, I don't think that your name will present a problem, but
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469 any use of control characters might. You must remember that the rest
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470 of us who see your message might not have the same kind of terminal
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471 that you have, and the cntl char could do nasty things to unsuspecting
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472 VDT's. I don't know for sure what cntl char you used, but judging by
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473 what it did to my screen, I suspect it was cntl-^. Thanks, but no
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474 thanks. I'd rather not deal with that kind of electron beam
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475 gymnastics. Oh, don't forget, cntl-C gets you out of the enter mode.
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476 .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.Emu
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477 O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+
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478 Hmm... I didn't see any of that. I think I love my terminal for being
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479 so universal.
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480 Morrissey: Have you been missing a little sleep there?
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481 Looks like spring break is around the corner. Too bad I'll be gone from
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482 Backwater for a week. Hope I don't miss much. I just finished reading
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483 Illusions by Richard Back. I'd highly recommend it for a one-nighter.
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484 Anyway, midterm in an hour. Gotta go.
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485
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486 ch/Back/Bach/ (The author of Johnathan Livingston Seagull)
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487 O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+ POPPING IN O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+O+
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488
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489 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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490 TO: MIKE DAY
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491 FROM: NOM DE GUERRE
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492 RE: JD SILVERMAN/THE DESTROYER
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493 BETWEEN THE TWO CHARACTERS OF THIS ONE WRITER (AND IS THERE ANYBODY STILL
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494 DUMB ENOUGH TO BELIEVE THEY ARE TWO PEOPLE?) I BELIEVE HE IS TAKING AN
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495 UNFAIR AMOUNT OF SPACE ON THIS BOARD. HE IS RUNNING TWO STORIES WITH LINE
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496 COUNTS LONGER THAN ANY OTHER SINGLE PERSON ON THIS BOARD EVER USES. I KNOW
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497 OF AT LEAST THREE PEOPLE WHO HAVE QUIT READING THIS BOARD BECAUSE IT SEEMS
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498 TO HAVE DEDICATED ITSELF EXCLUSIVELY TO ONE WRITER. I THINK MAYBE YOU
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499 SHOULD PUT YOUR FOOT DOWN AND TELL THIS PERSON TO SUSPEND EITHER ONE OR
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500 ANOTHER OF HIS STORIES UNTIL THE OTHER IS FINISHED. AND HE SHOULD KEEP HIS
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501 LINE COUNT DOWN TO A CERTAIN NUMBER OR RISK DELETION. I KNOW YOU CAN DO THIS
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502 AND KNOW AS WELL THAT A *LOT* OF OTHERS WOULD APPRECIATE IT AS WELL. OR
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503 MAYBE THIS REALLY HAS BECOME THE JD SILVERMAN/DESTROYER PERSONAL USE BOARD?
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504 PLEASE REPLY
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505 \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\NDG\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
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506
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507 !##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!
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508 Monsieur De Guerre; A few points, if I may.
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509 This IS a system free to its users. Whatever ideals you have that
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510 you feel compelled to install on others is not universal amoung the
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511 readers here. Although due to the free nature, you may, and have,
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512 posted your views.
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513 Since you show yourself to be so knowledgable of the user in
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514 question, would not your comments be best held in conversations
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515 strictly between yourself and your, well, associate user?
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516 Debates between calm and rational parpicipants have always been
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517 welcomed here on BWMS. In fact, they were at one point the life of
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518 this system. I've heard it said that we haven't had a good debate in
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519 years... Well, a year at least.
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520 Name calling and hate-mail also have had their place. For what
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521 good, I don't know. But what I've been seeing here these last two
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522 months is a display of contempt, venemous at times. I don't care for
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523 it much, if at all.
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524 This is a billboard for writers, and I shall read whatever is
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525 posted here for others to read. I make my own selections. It just so
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526 happens that I am one of the few that continues to read The Destroyer
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527 series.
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528 Seeing as there are users with the attention span of only one
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529 screenful, and I have stated my views, I shall depart.
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530 Nom De Sant
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531 !##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!##!
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532 [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]][][][][][][][][][][][][]
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533 Hello Mark,
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534 I thought that might be you still lurking on this system. I, on
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535 the other hand, have not been here for quite some time.
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536 You can't seriously be thinking of replacing the faithful ASCII
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537 Express? I would be like killing an old friend. You should be
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538 well adjusted to its shortcomings by now.
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539 Lastly, how much would you like to wager that Alan is also here?
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540 He can change his identity, but he can't hide his total lack of
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541 social grace ( or his lousy sense of humor ).
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542 Try to overlook the typos...
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543 You know who.
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545 In case anyone is wondering, Nom De Sant is an "old and respected" user.
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546 He did not pick that name to bug "Nom de Guerre".
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547 I don't know if JD Silverman is "the Destroyer" or not, but he isn't
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548 taking up *that* much space... in fact if you removed both storylines, it'd
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549 take close to a month to fill a disk at the current rate. Others have used
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550 similar amounts of space on a semi-regular basis... BARD for instance.
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551 I have no objections and in fact I'd still have no objections even if I
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552 *didn't* like his/their stuff. There's alway the DO 10 command...
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553 ______________________Leonard_JD 2446501.5975______________________________
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555 Waiting: Rabbitlurk.
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558 To the best of my knowledge, Nom De Sant is not a 'he'.
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560 *%()_@#$*%@#_)%*!_)+*%)_@#*%)_#$^&*#$)_*^)_*@#_%*!+%*@#^*#$)_^*)_$#*^@)*%^#_$^*()+#$^*)_*^@$)_^&@)_*@#_)^&*$)_^*#$_
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561 Mikey: I might as well chalk off this week too as far as visiting USD is concerned. The tug between Clyde and Chuck is
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562 starting to have adverse physical and psychological effects. I'll try to make it out soon, because I would like to
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563 see the 808x emulator on the ST, and I would like to try the AdventureWare programs on a disk that doesn't have
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564 the desk accessories as you spoke of. If it does free up additional memory, then I should be able to place the
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565 introduction subroutines back in the main program. The chain technique just doesn't make it when the source code
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566 is in ASCII. No word on Chuck's purchase
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567 of an Emulator, and, I have not been able to reproduce the error in READCPM. Chuck doesn't want it on either of
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568 his hard disks, so perhaps we'll never find out what really happened. (de da de dum de da de dum)
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569 How is the address change going? New versions? ARG! On the archives, contrary to what that voyeur character says,
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570 SOME people do read the disks, and discovered the line length problem long ago, and fixed the lines in question by
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571 adding a cr/lf at the end. I'm glad to see the confusion this time was merely due to an over-abundance of 128 character
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572 lines due mainly to borders and faulty uploads. Everything looks fine after editng. Got it voyeur??? :-) Hey, I had to
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573 get a small dig in, now that you're street legal and everything! :-) BEWARE TROJAN HORSES.
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574 Leonard : No luck on the disk yet, will report findings later. Are you sure you didn't plug this in to 110VAC by
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575 mistake?
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576 %*@_*%_)@%*@)_^*#)@_*^@)_^*@)_^&@^_@&^ L'homme sans Parity *%_#@*%_@)#*%)_*%)_%*@#_)%*@_%*@#^_)@*^)_@*$^_)*^#_)^*#_^#**^
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579 The stories entered by Jon Silverman are long. Regard less of the waste in
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580 space, or the good use in space, the stories take a good portion of the reading
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581 time on this system. It is more the waste, or good use, of time that bothers
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582 everyone than the wasted space. Though some fanatical archivists might wring
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583 their hands at the space taken up in their libraries of disks.
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584 On the Blue Parrot at least, it is possible to skip an entry. A fair part
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585 of the user list on that system, does skip them. This system is different. I
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586 am not implying worse, only different. What is written here is to read and
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587 everyone gets his moment in the spotlight. A point which makes debates here a
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588 good deal better than on any other system around.
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589 The point I am trying to make, is that Jon Silverman and other lengthy
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590 bibliophiles ought to take into consideration the time span they are imposing
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591 on the rest of us. Rather than entering their things here, they might enter
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592 them in a place with a skipping feature. They might enter them on a system of
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593 their own devising. Or heavens to Betsy, they might leave them where they got
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594 them, from a book, or on Compuserve.
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595 Mister Silverman, will you please limit yourself to the most interesting
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596 of your stories on this system, and send the rest to other systems with skip?
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600 Hmmmmm.... I can remeber the days when I used to take up much of the
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601 disk with my entries (ah, creativity, where has though gone?) I have to
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602 agree with NDS and Leonard. This board is open to all writers. Limits
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603 should be imposed only when the prose becomes vulgar.
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604 Dr. Frankenstupe
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606 Drat Enter Only! ch/remeber/remember
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607 +++others tolerate my writing, I'll tolerate theirs. +++++++++++++++++++Milch
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608 PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP
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610 L'homme: Harumph!
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611 Others: if you object to the length of time/space that Mr. Silverman (et al)
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612 take up on this board, what would you rather see? Short, succint (but meaning-
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613 less) entries like the row of 'P's directly preceding this? Anything more
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614 complicated overloads your comprehension, I suppose.
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617 ON A WHIM, I TIMED THE TIME IT TOOK TO SCROLL THROUGH SILVERMAN'S TWO STORIES
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618 ON THIS DISK: JUST UNDER SIX MINUTES. THE UNNAMED PERSON ABOVE HAS A DEFINITE
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619 POINT. APPARANTLY MR. WONDERFUL HAS THE IDEA THAT WHATEVER COMES OUT OF HIS
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620 TYPWRITER IS SOLID GOLD AND MUST IMMEDIATELY BESTOW IT UPON US POOR, UNDER-
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621 PRIVALAGED PEONS WHO HAVE SUCH A SHORTAGE OF GOOD LITERATURE TO READ AND DO SO
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622 IN AS LARGE QUANTITIES AS POSSIBLE. I DON'T THINK HE STOLE HIS STUFF FROM
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623 ELSEWHERE AS HE IS JUST NOT GOOD ENOUGH. HE IS NOT EVEN AS GOOD AS HE THINKS.
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624 I WISH HE COULD GET THAT THROUGH HIS HEAD BEFORE EVERYBODY GETS DISGUSTED AND
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625 STARTS BOYCOTTING THIS SYSTEM, LIKE THOSE PEOPLE I MENTIONED EARLIER.
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626 MIKEY: I WOULD REALLY LIKE A REPLY. I AM CURIOUS AS TO YOUR OPINION ON THIS
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627 SITUATION.
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628 YOURS TRULY, NOM DE GUERRE
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