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#: 18073 S1/General Interest
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11-May-93 12:10:02
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Sb: #17741-I NEED YOUR HELP!
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Fm: bert shaw 70431,3014
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To: VINCENZO ROVEDA 100024,1335
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Vincenzo,
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I just now saw a message you posted a couple of months ago about using
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Datacube & transputer boards with OS-9.
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I can't be of any direct help, but might be able to track down other
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Datacube users or ex-employees who are familiar with OS-9 use on that
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system. Unfortunately, I don't know anyone who uses transputers with
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OS-9 -- and would expect that to be a fairly hairy project, though I have
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no good reason for that assumption.
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I used an early Datacube system with OS-9, and have kept in touch with
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some of the folks there, and some who've moved around since.
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I hope you have your problems resolved, but will help out if I can.
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[As an aside, why didn't you go with a "real time Unix" like QNX or the
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(Lynx Unix?)? OS-9 has strengths, but is a very frustrating environment
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to switch to from Unix.]
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bert shaw, GBS Consultants
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#: 18061 S1/General Interest
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08-May-93 04:07:16
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Sb: #18056-New Mag
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Fm: Mark Griffith 76070,41
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To: DOUG 72667,1433
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Doug,
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> Address is Doug Hall 4 Linden Brook Way East Windsor NJ 08520
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Thanks and you're on the mailing list. Is that Brook Way East, or East
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Windsor?
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/************* /\/\ark ************/
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#: 18062 S1/General Interest
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08-May-93 05:50:54
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Sb: Call For Articles
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Fm: Mark Griffith 76070,41
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To: All
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CALL FOR ARTICLES
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As we startup the latest magazine for the CoCo/OS-9/OSK community,
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we are in need of quality articles from the users for publication.
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If you have ever felt you would like to write something that could
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be useful or informative to the rest of your friends in the CoCo
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and OS-9 worlds, please consider it again.
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We would like to begin receiving a steady inflow of articles from
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you, the readers. There are no requirements other than a desire
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see your names in print and possibly help others. Your article
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can be on any subject you desire as long as it is related to the
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computer world. If you have something to say about MS-DOS machines
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(and is not inflammatory) you can write that too. We will accept
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articles from anyone about anything that is fit for publication.
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It would be better if you limited your article to the scope of the
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magazine, which is the CoCo/OS-9/OSK communities. We would like
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to see articles on hardware as well as software. You may have
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discovered a new way to do something or to use a certain software
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package. You may have a novel programming routine, or a full
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program that you would like to share. We will consider anything
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you care to send in.
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Of course, anything you do send in is subject to the editorial pen
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(or, more appropriately, the DEL key) of the editor, Barbara.
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She will edit your articles for style, punctuation, and content if
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necessary. But when it is printed, your name will go on the byline.
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If you'd like to submit something, please send it in as soon as you
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can. The (noname as yet) magazine will be released on the first of
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each month. If you send something in and it is too late for the
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current issue, it will go in the next. If a number of people send
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in articles, we will publish them as we have space, so yours may be
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a couple issues in the future. We will answer all submissions with
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either e-mail or regular US mail thanking you and letting you know
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if and when we will publish your submission.
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For the near future, we cannot offer anything in return for a
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submission except a free issue that has your article in it. In
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the future (we don't know when) we will pay for submissions. Look
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for an announcement in the magazine when this begins.
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If you would like to start a regular monthly column, please contact
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me. You'll need to have an idea for the column and some sort of
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plan for it's flow over the next few issues.
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All submissions can be in electronic format and sent via e-mail to
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by Compuserve or Delphi accounts below:
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Compuserve: 76070,41
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Delphi : MARKGRIFFITH
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Work : mark@datapage.com
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If you'd like to send in a typed article or a disk, send it to:
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DccS (for now and until the mag gets a name)
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1368 Old Hwy 50 East
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Union, MO 63084
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Letters to the editor can be sent to the same address, except send
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them to the attention of Barbara Griffith.
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Thanks!
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/************* /\/\ark ************/
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#: 18065 S1/General Interest
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08-May-93 20:12:45
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Sb: get pwd in "C"
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Fm: David Breeding 72330,2051
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To: 76510,2203
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Some time ago, someone - and to the best of my recollection it was you...
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asked about how to get the current working directory for usage by a program.
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This was something that I was also interested in, but as I remember, no one
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came up with a really elegant way of doing it.
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Of course, I suppose that by now, you probably have resolved the problem in
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some way, I think that I have stumbled across a pretty acceptable solution.
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Last night, in reviewing "OS9 Insights", in the section on pipes, the answer
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was there. I'm using OSTerm and don't have an ASCII upload ability, so I'll
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just briefly go over the algorithm. I'm using a CoCo, not yet having graduated
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to OSK, but most things should be similar.. Here goes..
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int savout,pippth,pthsz;
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pippth=open("/pipe",READ+WRITE);
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savout=dup(1); close(1); dup(pippth);
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os9fork("pwd"....); from "INsights", OSK calls it a little differently
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from OS9
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pthsz = readln(pippth,wdir,sizeof(wdir)) (Wdir is defined as char wdir[?]
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wdir[pthsz-1] = '\0'; to get rid of cr sent by pwd
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.....cleanup....
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As I said, this may be too little too late, but it seems to be a pretty neat
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solution.
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>> David <<
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#: 18063 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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08-May-93 06:05:01
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Sb: #18037-#LZH for Coco
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Fm: Ken Flanagan 75460,2514
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To: Don Kircher 76346,3475 (X)
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I was the one that uploaded it. The problem is with the extended headers you
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create an archive with it toggled off (e option), then there will be no
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problems with any other system reading the archive. The author is aware of the
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problem and he is working on a new version that will fix the header problem as
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well as include additional features (I'm hoping for a move function and for it
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to archive directories.
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 18068 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
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10-May-93 00:04:11
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Sb: #18063-LZH for Coco
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Fm: Don Kircher 76346,3475
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To: Ken Flanagan 75460,2514
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Hi Ken!
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Thank you for the reply. I have great hopes for LZH down the road.
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I'll give the (e) option a shot and see how the IBM public likes it.
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thx
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dlk
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#: 18060 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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08-May-93 01:36:26
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Sb: #18040-makpal
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Fm: LARRY OLSON 72227,3467
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To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)
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Thanks Steve, its good to know my modules are current, I just wish my brain
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cells were<g>.
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larry
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#: 18064 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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08-May-93 07:20:33
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Sb: #18046-login
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Fm: keith bauer 71102,317
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To: Mike Haaland 72300,1433 (X)
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> Ok Keith,
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>
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> I'll get you a copy too! You can beta test it for me. :)
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>
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Great I'm game. Like I said I have some files here that I can try it out on.
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Keith Bauer
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CIS :71102,317
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Delphi:keithbauer
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Genie :k.bauer
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#: 18066 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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09-May-93 05:18:17
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Sb: #NFS Problems
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Fm: Paul Maynard 100033,512
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To: ALL
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Hi Everyone,
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I'm developing some software that operates as a diskless NFS client and
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using a local Sun Workstation as the NFS server. I have created all the
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expected Group and User ID mapping files and while I can create, open, read,
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write and delete files on the Sun, when I try and rename them I get a error
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214, implying I didn't own it. This is particularly annoying as the same had
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previously created the file. (I was updating a file, by copying and modifying
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entries from the original to a new created one.
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The Sun reports that I (as a Unix user) own the files. OS9's dir command
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reports me as the owner, so what gives???
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Any help will be gratefully accepted.
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Paul Maynard.
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There is 1 Reply.
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#: 18067 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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09-May-93 11:01:32
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Sb: #18066-NFS Problems
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Fm: Pete Lyall 76703,4230
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To: Paul Maynard 100033,512
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Hmm - if you owned them at both ends, did you have WRITE permissions turned on
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at the target end for the file in question?
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Pete
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#: 18071 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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11-May-93 05:30:50
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Sb: BGFX docs
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Fm: keith bauer 71102,317
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To: Kevin Darling 76703,4227
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Kevin,
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I bought BGFX from IMS at the 1992 ChicagoFest. At that time there
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weren't any docs written up for it. I understand that now there is. I would
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very much like to get my hands and these. What would be the best way. Can you
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send them Email or should I send you a disk with return postage? My son is
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taking a interest in basic and would like to do some things using BGFX.
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Thanks
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Keith Bauer
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CIS :71102,317
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Delphi:keithbauer
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Genie :k.bauer
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Via InfoXpress/OSK ver 1.00
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#: 18074 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
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11-May-93 19:44:14
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Sb: IX
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Fm: keith bauer 71102,317
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To: Bill Dickhaus 70325,523
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Bill,
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Something for you to check out. I zapped some messages from my message
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base, things like the entry screen, and then I selected the reorganize option.
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It started to sort through file and then went into the process stage. I then
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got a 103 bus error. I restarted ix and tried to read messages in that base
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using 'a' option. Again I got the 103 error.
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Keith Bauer
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CIS :71102,317
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Delphi:keithbauer
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Genie :k.bauer
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