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CBBS(R) 4.0.3b
04/02/92 00:12:52
Y/N: want CBBS "1st time user" info?^U
?^U
?^U
?n;ward;christensen;odraw;;fullc;piss
Logging name to disk...
You are caller 226314; next msg =45572; 370 active msgs.
Prev. call 03/31/92 @ 22:00, next msg was 45569
Recording logon for next time...
Use FULL? to check assignments
?^U
?xxxxx
"Mine" command checking for msgs TO
>Function:?dir c:log;dir c:killed;dir summary;type-20 log,ward c;or;*;short
LOG. 12
KILLED. 58
SUMMARY. 24
03/31/92,22:00:15,226304,1,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
E#45569,
E#45570,
E#45571,19
03/31/92,22:23:59,226305,2,GAYLAND BLOETHE,,2
03/31/92,23:51:48,226306,2,BILL MATTSON,,1
04/01/92,12:27:33,226307,2,DENNIS STAHL,,2
04/01/92,14:08:01,226308,2,DENNIS STAHL,,1
04/01/92,15:06:46,226309,2,DON PIVEN,,3
04/01/92,15:56:19,226310,2,BEN AVILA,,9
04/01/92,20:35:47,226311,2,BILL BRYCE,,2
04/01/92,22:03:05,226312,3,MURRAY ARNOW,,2
04/01/92,22:49:12,226313,1,SAM POLONETZKY,,3
04/02/92,00:12:57,226314,1,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
45569 03/31/92 WARD CHRISTENSEN => KEVIN QUINN: "R/AID FOR VISUALLY HANDICAPPED"
45570 03/31/92 WARD CHRISTENSEN => BILL WOLFF: "R/FULL COMMAND"
45571 03/31/92 WARD CHRISTENSEN => JIM THALE: "R/YASBEC"
---- End of summary ----
Retrieving flagged msgs: C skips, K aborts.
Msg 45569 is 03 line(s) on 03/31/92 from WARD CHRISTENSEN
to KEVIN QUINN re: R/AID FOR VISUALLY HANDICAPPED
Yep, time for us to hit BangKok. Not a good time with Comdex coming
up, but perhaps some time late April or so.
<K this please>
Msg 45570 is 10 line(s) on 03/31/92 from WARD CHRISTENSEN
to BILL WOLFF re: R/FULL COMMAND
Uh, sorry 'bout that. I added it as a real "kluge", and it documents
itself with the hideously inconsistent syntax: full?
Were you talking to Dennis Duffner? He, too, in the last few days,
tried to get help on FULL.
Actually, I'm "chicken" to update the help file - I'm not sure I have
my old help-file-indexing-program around any more. I have a file of
help keywords-only, so what you type gets looked up there, and it gives
the file offset of the actual text, so I do a direct seek. Makes help
pretty fast. (Ah, the tricks that used to be done to make CP/M floppies
fast ;-)
Msg 45571 is 11 line(s) on 03/31/92 from WARD CHRISTENSEN
to JIM THALE re: R/YASBEC
I know what you mean - single board computers can be a BLAST! One of
the more fun projects I did was to (1) write a 3-of-9 bar code printing
program, then (2) write a tiny assembler program to read the bar codes,
using software timing (it was speed-independent to a ratio of about
30:1) and burn it into a PROM on a $100 single board 8085 computer called
"the General". The 8085 had a software uart built in, and you could hook
it to a serial port and send bar codes read in via the port. Pretty
slick. I think the ratio "function to code size" means that some small
programs are a real gas. My "record" still stands: a 2-byte program in
the early Altair that would (1) clear memory and (2) put a machine size
indicator in the front panel lights (grin).
No dup. chars.
>Function:?