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Volume 7, Number 10 5 March 1990
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Editor in Chief: Vince Perriello
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Editors Emeritii: Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell
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Chief Procrastinator Emeritus: Tom Jennings
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Copyright 1990, Fido Software. All rights reserved. Duplication
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and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes only.
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For use in other circumstances, please contact Fido Software.
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FidoNews is published weekly by the System Operators of the
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FidoNet (r) International BBS Network. It is a compilation of
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individual articles contributed by their authors or authorized
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agents of the authors. The contribution of articles to this
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compilation does not diminish the rights of the authors.
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You are encouraged to submit articles for publication in
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FidoNews. Article submission standards are contained in the file
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ARTSPEC.DOC, available from node 1:1/1. 1:1/1 is a Continuous
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Mail system, available for network mail 24 hours a day.
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Fido and FidoNet are registered trademarks of Tom Jennings of
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Fido Software, Box 77731, San Francisco CA 94107, USA and are
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used with permission.
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Opinions expressed in FidoNews articles are those of the authors
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and are not necessarily those of the Editor or of Fido Software.
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Most articles are unsolicited. Our policy is to publish every
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responsible submission received.
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Table of Contents
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1. ARTICLES ................................................. 1
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Commercial Advertisement Echo ............................ 1
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SCSI-ONE Echo Started .................................... 7
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Telegard Does ECHO's ..................................... 8
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2. COLUMNS .................................................. 10
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A View from the Bridge ................................... 10
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Talk Me Through It, Honey ................................ 11
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3. LATEST VERSIONS .......................................... 13
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Latest Software Versions ................................. 13
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4. NOTICES .................................................. 16
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The Interrupt Stack ...................................... 16
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FidoNews 7-10 Page 1 5 Mar 1990
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ARTICLES
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Commercial Advertisement Echo
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For months now I have deliberated about doing this and know I
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will probably get all kinds of stones thrown at me but I have
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just about had it with: We do not allow commercial advertisement
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in this echo, or we do not want anyone to make a profit from this
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echo. It is not that I do not disagree with all of that it is
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just that I am sick and tired of all the whinney babies an how
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much it cost to send messages around the world. Well guys and
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gals who do you all think you are kidding.
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When we (those of us who really do this for FUN) want something
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the cost is not the Object. Nor is it the hold back. Well I
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think it is about time an echo where commercial advertisement can
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take place. A place where sysops can post their BBS
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advertisement's, or if they have something for sale that does
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not belong in For-Sale, or Modem or Hd or what ever. A place
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where If I want to advertise my wares or my programs or my
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services I can do so.
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So here is what I have done. I have established an echo area
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called ADVERT. There is one catch, this echo is not FREE. It
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will never be placed on a backbone, nor will it ever be made
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available for free distribution. There will be one point of
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distribution, and one point for delivery. Connection to this
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echo will cost $1.00 per month. Payable in advance of
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connection, and connection will only be made upon receipt of
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payment and validation of correct node number. I will also not
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make any out going distribution calls, all calls must orginate
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from the receiving node. The echo areas may be set up as READ
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ONLY or Sysops May allow Users to Enter Messages. Sysops may
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establish their own fee for entering messages into the echo area,
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and will be responsible for content.
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As I said at the start I am tired of hearing you can't so I am
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now giving all of you out there who have heard these words and
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even violated the policy of entering such messages now You have a
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place to do just that. But rememeber I warned you nothing we do
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any more is free. I have established a Flat Rate of $10.00 per
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message and this may be used as a guideline.
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Echo Area Guidelines are as follows:
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1. Only commercial advertisements should be entered.
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Advertisements of personal nature's may be entered at local
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sysops discretion.
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FidoNews 7-10 Page 2 5 Mar 1990
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2. Messages should contain only standard american characters, no
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upper ascii should be used.
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3. Messages will remain posted on individual systems for a minimu
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of 30 days or deleted as often as necessary by the sysop.
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4. Individual BBS will be responsible for monitoring messages
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entered by users, and so long as messages are not offensive or do
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not attack any person place or thing there will be no ground for
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removal from the echo.
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5. Sysops may pay for as many months of receipt in advance as
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they would like, and will receive a full refund for any full
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unused months if they request connection termination.
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Ok there you have it. A way and a means to advertise your stuff
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with no hassles and a promise you will not be told you cannot
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advertise that here.
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Payment may be sent to:
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C_Tech's Computer Services
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13 Osage Drive
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Los Lunas, NM 87031
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Connection Notification will be made via Echo Mail distribution
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within 48 hours of receipt.
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Come and get it, you have been wanting it. Now you have it.....
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FidoNews 7-10 Page 3 5 Mar 1990
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* * * A N N O U N C E M E N T * * *
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Third Annual Poor Man's FidoCon and Lake Party (in TEXAS)
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All SYSOPS and their family, pets, and assorted
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accoutrements are cordially invited to attend this fine
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three-day weekend.
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SPONSOR: Net 106 of Houston, Texas and other friends of our
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Net.
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DATES: April 20, 21, 22. [ The Friday, Saturday, and
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Sunday following EASTER. ]
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PLACE: Big Creek Park Pavillion (and campsites) on Lake
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Sommerville in Burleson County, Texas.
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EVENTS: Volleyball; swimming; boating; fishing; other water
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sports; chattin'; and eatin'.
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SATURDAY PICNIC: pot-luck, do-it-your-way communal feast.
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There may be a special treat in-addition to the regular
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fare. Come and try it!
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BIKE RIDE: Saturday morning Early Bird Tour and Ride through
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the Deer Meadow.
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CAMPING: Six campsites are with the Pavillion.
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There are a good number adjacent to the
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Pavillion Point. Well-lit,clean,
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maintained restrooms are nearby. Water
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is also available; but no electricity at
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the Pavillion.
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Here are DIRECTIONS to the Region 19 Picnic:
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From OKC: Take IH35 thru Dallas or Ft. Worth to
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WACO. In Waco,take Hwy 77 to CAMERON.
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Go left on TX 36 to CALDWELL. About 10
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miles south of Caldwell on TX36 is
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LYONS. On the north edge of Lyons turn
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right onto FM 60. You should see a sign
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for Big Creek Park. Its about 6 - 8
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miles from Lyons. Turn left onto the
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road to the park.
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From Austin: Take US 290 East approx. 89
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miles to BRENHAM. At the west
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FidoNews 7-10 Page 4 5 Mar 1990
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edge of Brenham, turn left
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onto TX36 and go north approx.
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20 miles thru the town of
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SOMMERVILLE to LYONS. Turn
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left at the second road which
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should be FM 60.
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From Dallas: Follow same directions as for OKC.
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From Ft. Worth: Follow same directions as for OKC.
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From Arkansas: Take IH30 west to DALLAS and
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then take IH35 (east) south
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and follow the OKC directions.
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From Louisiana:
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Take IH10 to HOUSTON. Take 'Loop 610 North'
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around the edge of the inner city. You'll cross
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US 59 and then IH45. Keep going. Take US 290
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towards Austin. It's 73 miles to BRENHAM. Follow
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the bypass around town. It becomes TX36. Do not
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turn to follow US 290 to Austin. Stay headed
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North. Approx. 18 miles northeast, you'll pass
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thru the town of SOMMERVILLE. There is one motel
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here. Continue thru town and over the rise to the
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little crossroads berg of LYONS. There are two
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places you can turn left. Take the second one.
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This should be FM 60. Approx. 8 miles to Big
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Creek Park.
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From San Antonio:
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Take IH35 north all the way to AUSTIN. At the
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north edge of Austin, turn right onto US 290.
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Follow the Austin directons.
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You can cut across on TX 21 at PAIGE. Go to
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CALDWELL. Turn south on TX 36. About 10 miles
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you'll reach LYONS. At the very edge of Lyons you
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should turn right on FM 60. Approx. 8 miles to the
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Park which will be on your right.
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From El Paso:
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Take IH 10 to JUNCTION. About 22 miles east of
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Junction take US 290. Follow US 290 north thru
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AUSTIN. You'll turn right to the east toward
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HOUSTON. Follow the Austin directions.
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From All Directions - At Big Creek Park
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FidoNews 7-10 Page 5 5 Mar 1990
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After you enter Big Creek Park, turn right at the
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sign directing you to the campground. Tell the
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gate attendant that you are with the Houston
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Bird/\Dog Society. Follow the campground road
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staying to the left at every fork until you reach
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the Pavillion.
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DETAILS:
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LYONS to Big Creek Park turnoff is 3.8 miles. Gate
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is 3.3 miles further. Campground is 0.1 mile from
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Gate. Restrooms to left just beyond gate. 0.3 mile
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from Gate is first fork. Stay LEFT. 0.1 mile to
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next fork. Stay LEFT. To right are electric
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campsites. Big Rest Rooms at this fork. Also
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dumpster. 0.2 mile to Pavillion Point. Open area.
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MARINA (one (1) mile from Gate. Deer Meadow.
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Brand new building with groceries and ice and
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fishing pier.
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ACCOMODATIONS:
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AT BIG CREEK PARK:
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Ample campsites. $8 with water. $10 with
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electricity and water.
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In nearby locations for those not camping :
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AT MARINAS:
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Big Creek Marina: 6 cabins with icebox and stove.
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No tv. high wood steps. Telephone across road. 3
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cabins with _two_ bedrooms and 3 cabins with _one_
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bedroom. Reservations must be for TWO nights
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whether you stay or not! No credit cards. $5.00
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key deposit. Advance deposit of $25.00.
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TELEPHONE: 1-409-596-1616
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2 - bedroom unit $40.00 per night.
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1 - bedroom unit $35.00 per night.
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OverLook Park Marina: 6 blue and white cabins.
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Single rooms. No steps. Same owners, same
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conditions.
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TELEPHONE: 1-409-289-2651
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FidoNews 7-10 Page 6 5 Mar 1990
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1 - room unit $45.00 per night.
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SCREEN SHELTERS: $15.00 per night.
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CALDWELL:
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13.7 miles from LYONS. Surry Inn; Varsity Motel,
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and Texan motel (low dive). Two resturants next
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door to Surry Inn. Wal-Mart next to Varsity.
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Nice grocery stores here! STOCK UP!!!
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Interesting METAL SCULPTURE STUDIO on BASTROP hwy.
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Check it out. Neat!
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BRENHAM:
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19.5 miles from LYONS. Preference Inn and (?)
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Motel - across from McDonalds on Hwy. 290. Coach
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Lite Motel (2 sites) is 1.2 west of Brenham on hwy
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290 toward AUSTIN (the Austin folk may want to
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stay here!). Judge's resturant, sunday buffet,
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bowling alley, etc..
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SOMMERVILLE:
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3.5 miles from LYONS. One motel on southside of
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town. No grocery stores! Several drive-in
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markets. FOUR places to eat. 1) D's Diner - 24
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hrs. just relocated into larger, newer, formerly
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vacant resturant. 2) Schopp's (?) local greasy
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spoon in center of town. 3) COUNTRY INN -* best
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food* !!! Steaks, club sandwiches, and baked
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potatos very popular. Own meat.. hudge pieces!
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4) Dairy Queen. Heritage Museum. Nature Museum at
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Corp of Engineers Headquarters. Primarily Railroad
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with Loading Pens for _cattle_.
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Sommerville Motel - 1-409-596-1000
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BRYNA/COLLEGE STATION:
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Approx. 30 miles east on Tx 60. Many places here,
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including a Motel Six.
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( Submitted by Net 106, via Justin Marquez, 1:106/100 )
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FidoNews 7-10 Page 7 5 Mar 1990
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By Bill Weinel
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1:151/121.0
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SCSI-ONE Echo for SCSI Discussions
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There has been a great deal of discussion involving SCSI topics
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lately in HDCONF. Consequently, a need was seen for a dedicated
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area devoted to discussion on the SCSI-1 standard and the
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proposed SCSI-2 standard, as well as the handful of new PC SCSI
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adaptors on the market today. SCSI-ONE was formed for just this
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reason. SCSI-ONE is moderated by Jeff Lengel (the developer
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of the Scsi System One PC SCSI adaptor) of 1:151/121.10 and may
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be used as a forum for discussion by anyone interested in SCSI
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applications, host systems, hardware, and theory. SCSI-ONE is
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available on the Z1 backbone and should be available through
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your local REC. Should you encounter problems getting connected
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to SCSI-ONE, contact me via netmail at 1:151/121.0 to arrange
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a feed.
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FidoNews 7-10 Page 8 5 Mar 1990
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Evan S. Dictor
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Fido 1:369/14
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Telegard Does ECHO's!
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Telegard, a BBS already known for it's flexibility and powerful
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security, now adds ECHOMail support to it's list of features.
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Adding an ECHO area to a Telegard BBS is as easy as adding any
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other message area -- and that's EASY!! The BBS just prompts you
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for the directory where the ECHO is stored, and then with the
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help of a small, quick utility called TGMAIL, ECHOMail can be
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easily Tossed and Scanned in regular events controlled by the
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mailer being used. This new feature has already been tested with
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D'Bridge and FrontDoor, and other mailers will be tested shortly.
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TGMAIL not only Tosses messages into Telegard, but it colorizes
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them using Telegard colors to give a new 'flavor' to reading
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ECHO's. The program colors text, quoted text, origin lines and
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tear lines all in different colors (all configurable by the
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SysOp) to make the messages easier to read.
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For a long time now Telegard has been the choice for closed BBS's
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due to it's strong security. What many people don't know is that
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ALL of the security features are optional. The flexibility of
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Telegard's menu system makes it perfect for any environment. If
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your users tend to like a PCBoard type of menus, Telegard can be
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easily customized to duplicate EXACTLY every command in virtually
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any BBS software available. The downside of this is that by
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emulating another BBS, you would have to DISCARD many of
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Telegard's features!
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With most BBS's you can have a menu option to send feedback to
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the SysOp. Telegard has this too. However, why limit it to just
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that? Why not a Feedback Menu which allows the user to send mail
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to either the SysOp or any Co-SysOps just by entering the choice
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off of an easy to follow, 100% custom menu.
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Do you like ANSI Colors and Animation? I do. Telegard's menu
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and logon systems incorporate a full ANSI Sub-Sytem which allows
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not only different ANSI's to be displayed based on User's
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Access Level, but also by day of week and even 10 full randomly
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displayed ANSI's for any or all of those. That means that
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without even accounting for the Users Access Level, you can
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create up to 70 ANSI's for any screen including Menus, Welcome
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Screens, Bulletins ... the list is endless. I've seen Telegard
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SysOps run out of disk space from making ANIS's as opposed to
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Uploads. However this, like everything in Telegard, is fully
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optional and the SysOp can use as much or little of it as he
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wants. The authors of Telegard do not impose there features on
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SysOps, they offer them.
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FidoNews 7-10 Page 9 5 Mar 1990
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Why do I come here and sing the praises of Telegard? I use it.
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If it wasn't exactly what I wanted or couldn't do something I
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needed and there was something else that did, I would switch.
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However, that hasn't happened. Every time I have come up with
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a suggestion for Telegard, I have sent it to the authors and nine
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times out of ten it's in the next release. Now I'm a Beta Site
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for the software. Sure, I get errors. You don't! That's why I
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get the errors. The authors of Telegard do not lose touch with
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the users of the software. Bugs are found in the Beta versions
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and usually fixed within the next two days. There are over 100
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Beta Sites nationwide pushing every part of the software to it's
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limits and every single bug is vanquished prior to any Standard
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release coming out. And this Standard version is FREE to all!
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If you would like to see a list of Telegard BBS's in your area,
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there is a FREQable file on my BBS which you can get with the
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magic name of TELELIST. Go ahead, call one. You'll be glad you
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did!
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New Pompeii BBS
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(305) 721-9690
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FIDO 1:369/14
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FidoNews 7-10 Page 10 5 Mar 1990
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COLUMNS
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A View from the Bridge
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"Captain's Log, Stardate 9003.03"
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Howdy!
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Well, it looks like Andy's back on CBS. Why am I not surprised?
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Geez, what a pain this week was! I wanted to buy a 32 bit ram
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board for my Hauppauge 386 XT replacement motherboard and put 2
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meg on it. Simple, no? Cost me about $500, right?
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Wrong. First of all, I wanted to get this thing installed
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before the weekend pushed my shipping back to monday or later,
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so I paid the additional $20 to get the card UPS 'red' (and the
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same for the memory. I wasn't about to pay THEIR prices for
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chips!), but I didn't complain.
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Anyway, I get the board, plug it in, but it only works
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intermittantly. "What's wrong?" I asks meself, and gets on the
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horn to Hauppauge (day long distance rates!) What kind of power
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supply you got, they ask. 130 watt, I answer. Oh, you have to
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have a minimum of 150 watts to run that card, they says.
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Great. After spending all that extra money to get the stuff
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'next day', I still have to buy a $200 power supply! Well, no
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time to get cheap. I buy a 200 watt 'turbo-cool 200' from PC
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Power and Cooling. Yes, I get it shipped red, again.
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Finally, I get my power supply installed, the memory board is
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running, and I think, gee, what a great time to install that
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SEAgate 4096 hard drive. I already have the machine apart...
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Well, 36 hours later I was back up and had recovered my D:
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drive. Needless to say, I was not happy. Still, I learned my
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lesson again, the same one I've learned all my life...
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Don't rush, and get it right!
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'Till next time...
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Ciao for now!
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FidoNews 7-10 Page 11 5 Mar 1990
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|
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Henry Clark
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124/6120
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The Death of Shareware and Other Good News --
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"Shareware enters mid-life crisis." I read these paragraphs
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with somewhat backhanded interest; I always do when 'they'
|
||
mention anything about Procomm, but that's another story.
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|
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Ever hear of FONDIR ? That's my particular excursion into the
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||
MYTH AND REALITY of Shareware. Now sure, you say, the user
|
||
interface was messed up. What with all the GUI wars about to
|
||
hit, that's going to become the de facto reason for failure in
|
||
the software industry. I think the real reason is that
|
||
Shareware is dead. None too soon.
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||
|
||
Why? The banner reads Militantly Public Domain. It's
|
||
Please-Run-Me-Ware, written for the fun of it, shared out of
|
||
pride, and unencumbered by all the license agreement nonsense
|
||
that runs the gamut from 'Please' to 'Will destroy your FAT
|
||
after 3 executions'.
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||
|
||
What this really means is the illusion is gone. No more
|
||
deception. Thank the gods.
|
||
|
||
|
||
The Big Mistake --
|
||
|
||
A huge and terrible MISTAKE has been released upon all the
|
||
sysops in the world. What is it ? It's the "ARCHIVE
|
||
COMMENT". It's immoral and probably illegal. It's a downright
|
||
nuisance.
|
||
|
||
It might not be so bad if it was treated like a PATH; you could
|
||
track a program back to it's source. Will this ever happen ?
|
||
Silly me.
|
||
|
||
For this to end, Mr. Katz has to release a NEW HOT compression
|
||
method and the program that implements that compression method
|
||
will have NO ARCHIVE COMMENT facility. Now wouldn't that be
|
||
special.
|
||
|
||
Until then, it's pkzip -z filename < return where return is
|
||
a file with a <return> CRLF sequence in it. This is not what
|
||
it is.
|
||
|
||
|
||
Big Blue Subterfuge --
|
||
|
||
Have you heard the words brother : "COOPERATIVE PROCESSING".
|
||
This is where a certain mainframe database product and an OS2
|
||
based presentation manager will allow you all the RDBMS
|
||
productivity you need. Well here's the scoop. It's called
|
||
'Mega Block Mode'.
|
||
|
||
FidoNews 7-10 Page 12 5 Mar 1990
|
||
|
||
|
||
Hurt by repeated bashing about the inefficiencies of regular
|
||
old Block Mode, Big Blue has gone one better with Mega Block
|
||
Mode. Your OS2 is not required to do the background
|
||
communications, ( which it may do only slightly worse than a
|
||
Desqview task ), it's the protected mode feature which allows
|
||
you to run huge programs that wouldn't fit in 640k. Huge
|
||
programs and memory you will need to manipulate the 'Mega
|
||
Block'.
|
||
|
||
"Cooperative processing" ( better understood as 'weakest link
|
||
syndrome' ) is simply a less interactive mode of data access.
|
||
You spend hours updating up the data and then send the whole
|
||
thing back, where it's rejected because of a missing parameter
|
||
on line 609.
|
||
|
||
|
||
Honey Learns MSGED --
|
||
|
||
Oh my god.
|
||
|
||
Cooperate this... <grin>
|
||
|
||
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|
||
FidoNews 7-10 Page 13 5 Mar 1990
|
||
|
||
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
LATEST VERSIONS
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
|
||
Latest Software Versions
|
||
|
||
MS-DOS Systems
|
||
--------------
|
||
|
||
Bulletin Board Software
|
||
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
||
|
||
Fido 12q+ QuickBBS 2.62* TBBS 2.1
|
||
Lynx 1.30 RBBS 17.2B TComm/TCommNet 3.4
|
||
Kitten 2.16 RBBSmail 17.2 TPBoard 6.0
|
||
Opus 1.03c+ RemoteAccess 0.01* Wildcat! 2.10*
|
||
Phoenix 1.3 TAG 2.5d1*
|
||
|
||
|
||
Network Node List Other
|
||
Mailers Version Utilities Version Utilities Version
|
||
|
||
BinkleyTerm 2.30 EditNL 4.00 ARC 6.02
|
||
D'Bridge 1.30* MakeNL 2.20 ARCA06 2.20*
|
||
Dutchie 2.90C ParseList 1.30 ARCmail 2.0
|
||
FrontDoor 1.99b* Prune 1.40 ConfMail 4.00
|
||
PRENM 1.47 SysNL 3.01* EMM 2.02
|
||
SEAdog 4.51b XlatList 2.90 Gmail 2.05*
|
||
XlaxDiff 2.32 GROUP 2.16
|
||
XlaxNode 2.32 GUS 1.30*
|
||
LHARC 1.13
|
||
MSG 4.0
|
||
MSGED 1.99
|
||
PK[UN]ZIP 1.02*
|
||
QM 1.0
|
||
QSORT 4.03
|
||
StarLink 1.01
|
||
TagMail 2.20*
|
||
TCOMMail 2.2
|
||
TMail 1.12
|
||
TPBNetEd 3.2
|
||
TosScan 1.00*
|
||
UFGATE 1.03
|
||
XRS 3.10
|
||
ZmailQ 1.10*
|
||
|
||
Macintosh
|
||
---------
|
||
|
||
Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
|
||
|
||
FidoNews 7-10 Page 14 5 Mar 1990
|
||
|
||
|
||
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
||
|
||
Red Ryder Host v2.1b4 Tabby 2.1 MacArc 0.04
|
||
Mansion 7.15 Copernicus 1.0d* ArcMac 1.3
|
||
WWIV (Mac) 3.0 StuffIt 1.51
|
||
TImport 1.331
|
||
TExport 1.32
|
||
Timestamp 1.6
|
||
Tset 1.3
|
||
Import 2.52
|
||
Export 2.54
|
||
Sundial 2.1
|
||
UNZIP 1.01*
|
||
|
||
Amiga
|
||
-----
|
||
|
||
Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
|
||
|
||
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
||
|
||
Paragon 2.00+* BinkleyTerm 1.00 AmigArc 0.23
|
||
TrapDoor 1.11 booz 1.01
|
||
WelMat 0.35* ConfMail 1.10
|
||
ChameleonEdit 0.10
|
||
Lharc 1.10*
|
||
oMMM 1.43b*
|
||
ParseLst 1.30
|
||
PkAX 1.00
|
||
PK[UN]ZIP 1.01*
|
||
RMB 1.30
|
||
UNzip 0.86
|
||
Zoo 2.00
|
||
|
||
|
||
Atari ST
|
||
--------
|
||
|
||
Bulletin Board Software Network Mailer Other Utilities
|
||
|
||
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
||
|
||
FIDOdoor/ST 1.5c* BinkleyTerm 1.03g3 ConfMail 1.00
|
||
Pandora BBS 2.41c The BOX 1.20 ParseList 1.30
|
||
QuickBBS/ST 0.40 ARC 6.02*
|
||
GS Point 0.61 LHARC 0.51
|
||
PKUNZIP 1.10
|
||
MSGED 1.96S
|
||
SRENUM 6.2
|
||
Trenum 0.10
|
||
OMMM 1.40
|
||
|
||
FidoNews 7-10 Page 15 5 Mar 1990
|
||
|
||
|
||
+ Netmail capable (does not require additional mailer software)
|
||
* Recently changed
|
||
|
||
Utility authors: Please help keep this list up to date by
|
||
reporting new versions to 1:1/1. It is not our intent to list
|
||
all utilities here, only those which verge on necessity.
|
||
|
||
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|
||
FidoNews 7-10 Page 16 5 Mar 1990
|
||
|
||
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
NOTICES
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
|
||
The Interrupt Stack
|
||
|
||
|
||
17 Mar 1990
|
||
Release date for Opus v1.10
|
||
|
||
5 Jun 1990
|
||
David Dodell's 33rd Birthday
|
||
|
||
12 Jun 1990
|
||
Fifth anniversary of FidoNet's switch to multiple nets.
|
||
|
||
27 Jul 1990
|
||
The beginning of the REGION 17 Convention at Menucha Resort in
|
||
the Columbia Gorge, Oregon. For details contact Ken Zwaschka,
|
||
1:105/54.
|
||
|
||
1 Aug 1990
|
||
Start of FidoCon '90. Contact Bill Vanglahn at 1:1/90 for
|
||
details.
|
||
|
||
5 Oct 1990
|
||
21st Anniversary of "Monty Python's Flying Circus"
|
||
|
||
14 Nov 1990
|
||
Marco Maccaferri's 21rd Birthday. Send greetings to him at
|
||
2:332/16.0
|
||
|
||
1 Jan 1991
|
||
Implementation of 7% Goods and Services Tax in Canada. Contact
|
||
Joe Lindstrom at 1:134/55 for a more colorful description.
|
||
|
||
16 Feb 1991
|
||
Fifth anniversary of the introduction of Echomail, by Jeff Rush.
|
||
|
||
If you have something which you would like to see on this
|
||
calendar, please send a message to FidoNet node 1:1/1.
|
||
|
||
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