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FIDONEWS -- 30 Sep 85 03:02:28 Page 1
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Volume 2, Number 33 30 September 1985
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Publisher: Fido 107/7
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Chief Procrastinator: Thom Henderson
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Fidonews is published weekly by SEAboard, Fido 107/7. You
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are encouraged to submit articles for publication in
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Fidonews. Article submission standards are contained in the
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file FIDONEWS.DOC, available from Fido 107/7.
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Disclaimer or don't-blame-us:
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The contents of the articles contained here are not our
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responsibility, nor do we necessarily agree with them;
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everything here is subject to debate. We publish EVERYTHING
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received.
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Daylight Losing Time
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This coming October 27th is the day when Daylight Savings
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Time ends, at the ungodly hour of 2 AM (on a Sunday morning,
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no less).
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Once again we engage in our twice yearly shifting of the
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network mail hour, with its usual confusion. For the
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record, the "approved" procedure is to set your clock back
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one hour sometime between Saturday morning mail and Sunday
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morning mail (anytime during the day Saturday is cool).
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But, inevitably, some people will forget, one or two will
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set their clocks the wrong way, and many won't be able to
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reach their machines until Monday anyway. (Many business
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boards are in company areas that can't be reached on the
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weekend. Do they change their clocks on Friday before they
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leave, or Monday when they get back? Who knows?)
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Our little semiannual ritual also has other drawbacks. It
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seems Hawaii doesn't observe daylight savings time, and they
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are far enough west that the summer shift has them making
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FIDONEWS -- 30 Sep 85 03:02:31 Page 2
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VERY long distance calls at the more expensive evening rate.
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Just to make life even more fun, I'm told that parts of
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Indiana, Kansas, Texas, Florida, Michigan, and Alaska also
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do not observe daylight savings time.
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So here's my suggestion, if it's not already obvious: Let's
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go ahead and get off of daylight savings time this month,
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and from then on forget about it. If anybody complains, we
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can tell them that we're really running on Greenwhich Mean
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Time (or Universal Coordinated Time, as it's called these
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days).
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All this changing of clocks just isn't worth the hassle. So
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the clock on your system doesn't match the clock on your
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wall, so big deal! The users will never know the
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difference, since it's hard to get the time of day from Fido
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anyway. [Could one then say that Fido wouldn't give you the
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time of day? Some other editorial, perhaps. . .]
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FIDONEWS -- 30 Sep 85 03:02:32 Page 3
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NEWS
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Greetings from
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Mike's "C" Board
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Net 102 / Node 201
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619-722-8724
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The latest release of Fido, ver 11, has reimplemented the
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scrolling download/upload display as default. When it was
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taken away a few versions back I was glad to walk in and
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see what was being downloaded or uploaded but would have no
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idea where in the transfer the user was. But this was
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better than "Sending block 134" and not knowing what was
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being transferred or whether there where 650 blocks or 10
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blocks left. Well now with the new version I can have my
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cake and eat it too!
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The following is the patch I applied to Fido using the
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Norton Utilities 3.0 program "NU". I couldn't figure out
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how to do this with debug because of the Plink overlays
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used in Fido.
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1. Copy Fido to a blank disk and invoke NU B: or what
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ever disk Fido is on. This insures that the program will be
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stored contigously.
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2. Next press F1 then F3 to select a file and place the
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highlighted bar over FIDO_IBM.EXE. Press return and you
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will be back at the TOP MENU.
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3. Next press F2 then F4 to display information about the
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file. The 4th line down contains the starting cluster
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number with the sector number in parentheses. Add 197 to
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the sector number in parentheses and write the result down.
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4. Now press ESC then F1 then F5 to place you in the
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Select Disk Sector menu and enter the number you noted
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earlier. Press enter and then F5 to enter the Change
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Contents mode.
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5. You should see all the usual messages that continually
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scroll by as a file transfer is taking place. Pressing
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enter twice will place you in the edit mode. From here we
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can do some interesting things to Fido to enhance the
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existing display. About 3/4 way down you will see TIMEOUT
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followed by two funny characters that are a carriage return
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and newline (0D0A). Change the second one, that looks like
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an O in reverse video to a space or hex 20 and do the same
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following "Sending block #%u" two lines down and after
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"ACK" on the same line. These changes will make the display
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overwrite the existing line during transfers giving the
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effect of only the current block number changing and
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eliminating the scrolling off the screen of the file name
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and number of total blocks.
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6. If you really want to be creative you can change the
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FIDONEWS -- 30 Sep 85 03:02:34 Page 4
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Data Block %u, which I believe is used for upload along
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with the "ACK character = %u" which I truncated to "ACK=%u"
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and null terminated and added the hex 0D before the null.
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The message "Sending filename" also should be done to take
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of the Telink protocal transfers. Also what I have done is
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by hitting the PgDn key (Entering W for write when
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requested to save the changes) you will see the "-----
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Yelling at sysop ----" message the user see's when the C
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key is pressed. I have changed it to "---- Hello... This is
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Mike ----" making the interruption much more friendly.
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7. When finished press ESC and answer W to write the
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changes to disk and you have the new enhanced version of
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Fido!!!
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Though these patches are simple they accomplish something
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I have asked for in fido, but fell on deaf ears. I keep
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hearing rumors of Fido look alikes in the making with
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source and all the bells and whisles you can only dream
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were in Fido, with full net compatibility. Tom has created
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a work of art that is worth recognition, but lets have a
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masterpiece.
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If you don't have Norton Utilities 3.0 I highly recommend
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purchasing it, as I have found it to be a fascinating tool.
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This patch was only done on the IBM version but could be
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easily applied to the DEC version as well.
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Enjoy!! Mike Elkins
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FIDONEWS -- 30 Sep 85 03:02:35 Page 5
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The UN*X Gateway is Complete!
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by Bob Hartman
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Sysop Fido 132/101
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The UN*X Gateway BBS
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This is the news you UN*X hackers have been waiting
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for - the UN*X Gateway BBS is now capable of sending FidoNet
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mail on to UN*X systems as well as receiving UN*X mail to be
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sent via FidoNet! In the past only the latter (UN*X->Fido)
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was working. In order to use the gateway you must do the
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following:
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Sending Fido to UN*X:
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1. Send a FidoNet message addressed to "Usenet" on the UN*X
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Gateway Fido (132/101). The addressee of Usenet is what
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the system keys on, so make sure you get it right!
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2. The first line of the message must be the UN*X UUCP path
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to be used to send the message. This must be the only
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thing on the first line! The path does not have to be
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complete as the host will try to figure out the best
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routing for the message, but the addresses to major hosts
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would be:
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encore!decvax
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or encore!decvax!ucbvax
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or encore!ihnp4
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To send a message to me use "vaxine!rch"
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3. The rest of the message can be any legal FidoNet message.
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4. When a message meeting these requirements gets to the
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gateway, it is converted to UN*X format and sent to the
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host named 'vaxine'. This UN*X host then sends the mail
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to the address given in the first line of the message.
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Sending UN*X to Fido:
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1. Send UN*X mail to either
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decvax!encore!vaxine!spark!net!node!username
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or ihnp4!encore!vaxine!spark!net!node!username
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where net is the FidoNet net number, node is the FidoNet
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node number, and username is the name of the person to
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receive the message with all spaces changed to the
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underscore (_) character. The name cannot have any
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quote marks or other punctuation characters in it except
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for the underscore character! If it does contain any
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punctuation marks, then a UN*X mailer somewhere will not
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properly process the mail and it will get returned as
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undeliverable.
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2. When this message reaches the host 'vaxine', it is sent
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through a special mail processor that routes it to the
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gateway using Kermit.
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3. Once it is received at the gateway, it is processed and
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changed into FidoNet mail to the appropriate person at
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the given Fido node.
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This gateway has been tested, but if you try it and notice
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FIDONEWS -- 30 Sep 85 03:02:37 Page 6
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something that seems to be wrong, please let me know so that
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I can try to fix it.
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FIDONEWS -- 30 Sep 85 03:02:37 Page 7
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The aliens are coming!
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The aliens are coming!
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by Dave Barry
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I don't want to alarm anybody, but there is an
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excellent chance that the Earth will be destroyed in
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the next several days. Congress is thinking about
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eliminating a federal program under which scientists
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broadcast signals to alien beings. This would be a
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large mistake. Alien beings have atomic blaster death
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cannons. You cannot cut off their federal programs as
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if they were merely poor people.
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I realize some of you may not believe that alien beings
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exist. But how else can you explain the many
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unexplained phenomena that people are always sighting,
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such as lightning and flying saucers? Oh, I know the
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authorities claim these sightings are actually caused
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by "weather balloons," but that is a bucket of manure
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if I ever heard one. (That's just a figure of speech,
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of course. I realize manure is silent.)
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Answer this question honestly: Have you, or has any
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member of your immediate family, ever seen a weather
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balloon? Of course not. Nobody has. Yet if these
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"authorities" were telling the truth, the skies over
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America would be dark with weather balloons.
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Commercial aviation would be impossible. Nevertheless,
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the authorities trot out this tired old explanation, or
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an even stupider one, every time a flying saucer is
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sighted.
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Wake up, America! There are no weather balloons!
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Those are alien beings! They are all around us! I'm
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sure most of you have seen the movie "E.T.," the story
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of an alien who almost dies when he falls into the
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clutches of the American medical establishment but is
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saved by pre-adolescent boys. Everybody believes the
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alien is a fake, a triumph of special effects. But
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watch the movie closely next time. The alien is real.
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The boys are fakes. Real pre-adolescent boys would
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have beaten the alien to death with rocks.
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Yes, aliens exist. And high government officials know
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they exist, but they've been keeping this knowledge top
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secret. Here is the Untold Story:
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Years ago, when the alien-broadcast program began,
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government scientists decided to broadcast a message
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that would be simple yet convey a sense of love,
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universal peace and brotherhood: "Have a Nice Day."
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They broadcast this message over and over, day after
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day, year after year, until one day they got an answer:
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FIDONEWS -- 30 Sep 85 03:02:39 Page 8
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Dear Earth Persons:
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OK. We are having a nice day. We also have a
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number of extremely sophisticated weapons, and
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unless you start broadcasting something more
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interesting, we will reduce your planet to a
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very warm object the size of a child's bowling
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ball.
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Regards,
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The Aliens
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So the scientists, desperate for something that would
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interest the aliens, broadcast an episode of "I Love
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Lucy," and the aliens loved it. They demanded more,
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and soon they were getting all three major networks,
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and the earth was saved. There is only one problem:
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The aliens have terrible taste. They love game shows,
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soap operas, Howard Cosell and "Dallas." Whenever a
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network tries to take one of these shows off the air,
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the aliens threaten to vaporize the planet.
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This is why you and all your friends think television
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is so awful. It isn't designed to please you - it's
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designed to please creatures from another galaxy. You
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know the Wisk commercial, the one with ring around the
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collar, the one so spectacularly stupid that it makes
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you wonder why anybody would dream of buying the
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product? Well, the aliens love that commercial. We
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all owe a great debt of gratitude to the people who
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make Wisk. The have not sold a single bottle of Wisk
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in 14 years, but they have saved the Earth.
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Very few people know any of this. Needless to say,
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Congress has no idea what is going on. Most
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legislators are incapable of eating breakfast without
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the help of several aides, so we can hardly expect them
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to understand a serious threat from outer space. But
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if they go ahead with their plan to cancel the alien-
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broadcast program and the aliens miss the next episode
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of "General Hospital," what do you think will happen?
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Think about it. And have a nice day.
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Submitted by Rob Rothberg, Sysop of Digital Bitch.
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FIDONEWS -- 30 Sep 85 03:02:41 Page 9
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A new Fido Network
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by Bob Hartman
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Sysop 132/101 (formerly 101/101)
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As of Friday, September 20th, the UN*X Gateway
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Fido, and several others in New Hampshire have formed a
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new Fido network - NH_Net. The affected boards are:
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UN*X Gateway was Fido 101/101 now is Fido 132/101 or 132/0
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cLINE was Fido 101/102 now is Fido 132/102
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M'Cycle Bytes was Fido 101/107 now is Fido 132/107
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Revap Data was Fido 101/388 now is Fido 132/388
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North Net was Fido 101/444 now is Fido 132/444
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Alter-Net was Fido 101/644 now is Fido 132/644
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Wizards Castle was Fido 16/615 now is Fido 132/615
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Spaghetti_heav was Fido 16/620 now is Fido 132/620
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Please use the new node numbers whenever you send
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mail. Since the UN*X Gateway receives *LOTS* of mail, it
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should now be addressed to the new node number (132/101).
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Also, Rovermsg, Renum, and Filedate bugs should now be
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mailed to 132/101. Thanks from all the nodes in net 132!
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FIDONEWS -- 30 Sep 85 03:02:42 Page 10
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A Bit of Clarification
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Kurt Reisler
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SYSOP FIDO 109/74 & 109/483
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In an article excerpted from the August 1985 issue
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of DIGITAL REVIEW (it was reprinted with permission wasn't
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it?), was a discussion fo the FIDO sessions presented at the
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Fall 84 and Spring 85 DECUS Symposia. As the speaker at
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those sessions, I felt that a misconception expressed in
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that article should be cleared up.
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The first FIDO session was presented at the Fall
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1985 DECUS, which was held in Anaheim, CA. The session was
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actually a Birds of a Feather (BOF) session, which was
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scheduled at the symposium. I had not been involved with
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FIDO long enough to get together an abstract for a formal
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session in time to meet the submission deadlines. The room
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it was held in was the same size room that all BOF sessions
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are held in. It would seat 50 people and was to be an hour
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long. Well, we had nearly 100 people in the room, with more
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in the hall outside. The session went to 1.5 hours before
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we were thrown out by the next BOF session. All in all a
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very good session, with several FIDO systems spawned as a
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result.
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The second FIDO session was presented at the Spring
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1985 DECUS which was held in New Orleans, LA. This one was
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a formal session of an hours duration. Unfortunately, it
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was scheduled immediately before an award ceremony that I
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was supposed to be at, so the session was not able to run
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over the alotted hour, and I was not able to field all of
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the questions that I would have liked to. Had about 150 in
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attendance.
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upcoming DECUS which is being held in early December at the
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Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim. This session is to be 1.5
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hours. Hopefully there will be enough time to handle all
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the questions. In addition, Tom Jennings (anyone know who
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he is?) is scheduled to do a "Pre-Symposium Seminar" before
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the start of the actual symposium.
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been very, very good to us. Also, I have never considered
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myself to be a "spokesman" for FIDO, I just happen to like
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to talk.
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FIDONEWS -- 30 Sep 85 03:02:44 Page 11
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COLUMNS
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A long time ago... on a node far, far away (from PDPvax)
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The further adventures of Luke Vaxhacker Episode n+1
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The story thus far: Luke, PDP-1, and their 'droids RS232
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and 3CPU have made good their escape from the Imperial Bus
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Signals with the aid of Con Solo and the bookie, Two Bacco.
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The Milliamp Falcon hurtles onward through system space.
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Meanwhile, on a distant page in user space...
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Princess _LPA0: was ushered into the conference room,
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followed closely by Dec Vadic. "Governor Tarchive," she
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spat, "I should have expected to find you holding Vadic's
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lead. I recognized your unique pattern when I was first
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brought aboard." She eyed the 0177545 tatooed on his header
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coldly.
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"Charming to the last," Tarchive declared menacingly.
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"Vadic, have you retrieved any information?"
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"Her resistance to the logic probe is considerable,"
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Vadic rasped. "Perhaps we would get faster results if we
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increased the supply voltage..."
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"You've had your chance, Vadic". Now I would like the
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princess to witness the test that will make this workstation
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fully operational. Today we enable the -r beam option, and
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we've chosen the princess' $HOME of /usr/alderaan as the
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primary target."
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"No! You can't! /usr/alderaan is a public account, with
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no restricted permissions. We have no backup tapes! You
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can't..."
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"Then name the rebel inode!" Tarchive snapped.
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A voice announced over a hidden speaker that they had
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arrived in /usr.
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FIDONEWS -- 30 Sep 85 03:02:46 Page 12
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"1248," she whispered, "They're on /dev/rm3. Inode
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1248." She turned away.
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Tarchive sighed with satisfaction. "There, you see Lord
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Vadic? She can be reasonable. Proceed with the operation."
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It took several clock cycles for the words to penetrate.
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"What!" _LPA0: gasped.
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"/dev/rm3 is not a mounted filesystem." Tarchive
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explained. "We require a more visible subject to
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demonstrate the power of the RM STAR workstation. We will
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mount an attack on /mnt/dantooine as soon as possible."
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As the princess watched, Tarchive reached over and typed
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"ls" on a nearby terminal. There was a brief pause, there
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being only one processor on board, and the viewscreen
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showed, ".: not found."
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The princess suddenly double-spaced and went off-line.
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To be continued...
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FIDONEWS -- 30 Sep 85 03:02:46 Page 13
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NOTICES
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ROBOT
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Version 3.20
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I, Thom Henderson, general partner of System Enhancement
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Associates, hereby grant to all sysops of non-commercial
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Fidonet systems registered with DECUS Central in St. Louis
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(as shown by a current node list) a limited license to use
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the Robot automated file mailer and to distributed it
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amongst themselves, provided that:
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1) No fee is charged for such distribution, and
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2) The files ROBOT.COM and ROBOT.DOC are distributed
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together and in their original, unmodified form.
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Voluntary contributions will be appreciated, but are not
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required. Commercial users may use Robot, subject to the
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above conditions, for a fee of twenty dollars ($20), to be
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paid to:
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System Enhancement Associates
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21 New Street
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Wayne, NJ 07470
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Registered users of the SEAdog electronic mail system do not
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need to pay a separate fee, as it is included in the cost of
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the SEAdog package.
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The Interrupt Stack
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27 Oct 1985
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2 AM - Change from Daylight Savings Time to Standard
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time. You should change your system clock before mail
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hour this date.
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27 Nov 1985
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Halley's Comet passes closest to Earth before perihelion.
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24 Jan 1986
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Voyager 2 passes Uranus.
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9 Feb 1986
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Halley's Comet reaches perihelion.
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11 Apr 1986
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Halley's Comet reaches perigee.
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19 May 1986
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Steve Lemke's next birthday.
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24 Aug 1989
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Voyager 2 passes Neptune.
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calendar, please send a message to Fido 107/7.
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