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Volume 3, Number 11 17 March 1986
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Editor in Chief: Thom Henderson
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Chief Procrastinator Emeritus: Tom Jennings
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Fidonews is published weekly by SEAdog Leader, node 1/1. You are
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encouraged to submit articles for publication in Fidonews.
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Article submission standards are contained in the file
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FNEWSART.DOC, available from node 1/1.
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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.
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Table of Contents
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1. EDITORIAL
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The Freedom to Compute
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2. ARTICLES
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Animator, from Aegis Development - a (P)Review
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Using DoubleDOS and Fido 11t
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The latest FIDO distribution list
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Remote "Full Screen" Sysop Utility
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An Alternative to LISTGEN
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3. COLUMNS
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Notes from Abroad
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4. WANTED
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Optics Software Wanted
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5. FOR SALE
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Entertainment Software for your PC!
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Modula-2 Make Utility
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Public Domain Software Library Sale!!
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Special Offer to FidoNet Sysops
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6. NOTICES
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The Interrupt Stack
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EDITORIAL
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THE FREEDOM TO COMPUTE
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Mike Guffey
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Professor Loren Graham of M.I.T. recently wrote an article
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entitled "The Kremlin and the Computer". He depicted life with
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state controlled computing. His observation that George Orwell
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had it all backwards in "1984" is shrewd. He noted that Orwell
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thought technology would allow "Big Brother" to maintain control.
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Who would have guessed the Soviet Union would turn the tables and
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retain control by the suppression of technology, especially
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computer technology?
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If America's government relied on keeping the population
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uninformed to retain power and control, things would be different
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today. What if your government didn't permit computer access to
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large amounts of accurate data, didn't permit free communication
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between computer users? What if your government would not allow
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widespread use of personal computers for fear of losing
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"control"? How long could your government hope to genuinely keep
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pace in the information age?
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These were questions Graham explored in his article. He painted
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a grim picture of what might be called "retrograde technology".
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He points out some democratic traditions indicating an edge over
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communist [and third world] nations:
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o A tradition of successful technology developed under private
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ownership and control.
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o Close relationships between creators, buyers and sellers of
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technology
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o A tradition of free access to and creation of massive amounts
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of reliable information about most topics.
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o Excellent communications facilities necessary for access to
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diverse and far-flung data bases.
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o A tradition of entrepreneurial and innovative freedom .
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Graham goes on to say, "So far the pattern [of Soviet
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authorities] seems to be to require that all computers be
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institutionally housed and controlled. But what [they] may not
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have realized is that they will pay a stiff price... by severely
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limiting the rapidity of the growth of the computer culture, by
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hampering the spread of computer literacy among young people,
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...by watching the West become a true 'information society' they
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will be doomed to follow..." Graham also calls the Soviet Union
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"the most secretive industrialized power in the world". These
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observations are based on a recent visit to Moscow and his
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background in the history of science.
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There is no known "hacker-culture" in the Soviet Union and its
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youth is missing out on the experiences available to millions of
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American schoolkids, hobbyists and average business computer
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users. Nor does the Soviet Union's educational system emphasize
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hands-on experience with high-technology hardware. Even typing
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is not widely taught.
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Graham's article raises the question about how long the Soviet
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Union can retain a genuinely international status with a decaying
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economy that can neither heal itself with accurate information
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nor give its children a legacy of competition in an increasingly
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computer-aided world. Surely a disturbing question for an aging
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leadership.
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So what about your most taken-for-granted freedom? How important
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is it to you? What are you planning to do to protect it? Unlike
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the gun control or right-to-life issues, the freedoms you enjoy
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in accessing as much (or as little) information as you desire are
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seldom regarded as burning issues. Are you to allowing it to
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slip away as the communications giants gradually make the price
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of information prohibitive?
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In earlier times, free enterprise aviation developed rapidly
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because suffocating regulation had not yet arrived and no one
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thought to make air corridors into tollways. Later, after long
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years of gradually instituted legislation, many industry giants
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couldn't survive their emancipation. Today our situation is
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reversed. We have started out on overcrowded highways controlled
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by one giant. Let us hope the giant remains benevolent. Let us
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hope the giant doesn't team up with the federal bureaucracy to
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act on our behalf without our consent.
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Just where does one suggest a constitutional amendment?
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Fidonews Page 3 17 Mar 1986
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ARTICLES
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Joseph Lowery
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Fido 107/34
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Published by AMuse
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New York City Amiga Users
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AMuse BBS (212) 269-4879
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This article may be reprinted if the above credit is given.
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*FIRST (P)REVIEW*
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ANIMATOR
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Animator is the first in a series of advanced graphic utilities
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to be released by Aegis Development. When it is initially sold,
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it will be bundled with Images, their paint program (retail
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$139.95); this preview will only be concerned with Animator
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portion, however, as Images was not received in my review package
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from Aegis.
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Animator can be entered either from Workbench or CLI and, further
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reflecting Aegis' commitment to fully utilizing the Amiga
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hardware, one can multi-task with this program. This facility
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will only become useful when memory expansion above the 512
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barrier is available - Animator leaves free only about 110K,
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which quickly gets eaten away when you incorporate backgrounds
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for the animations (a background uses 50K). Backgrounds are in
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IFF format, which means Deluxe Paint pictures once saved with a
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".PIC" extender can be entered into the program.
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The power of Animator becomes evident at the outset. The icon
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based "fast menu" occupies a relocatable window on a blank
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screen. There are 29 icons to provide different functions and a
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full 32 color selection strip. The icons themselves are
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moderately descriptive, but a very nice touch is an "?" icon to
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describe the other icons; for example positioning the "?" over
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the small movie camera icon displays "Replay This Tween" in the
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menu bar at the top of the screen.
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What's a "tween" you say? Unlike other animation programs for
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personal computers, Animator does not just emulate a movie
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camera, working frame by frame, but rather uses the advanced
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concept of the animation segment - the "inbetween." Rather than
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moving a figure step by step, each time advancing the frame,
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Animator allows you to move the figure in real time in one tween.
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This makes for very smooth animation of simple figures (polygons
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are Animator's forte) without losing the benefit of frame
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animators, i.e. having changes occur instantly in one frame.
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Animator allows you to create a variety of simple shapes (lines,
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free form polygons, circles, boxes, or five pointed stars) all of
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which can be either in outline form or filled with the current
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color. Once the object is begun, even a dot is considered a
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polygon, you can begin to manipulate it with the other tools.
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Here's a sample session. You select "make filled polygon" either
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from the fast menu or the menu bar (under "Create"). Near the
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bottom of the screen click once with the left mouse button to
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start the polygon, click again to make another point and then one
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click of the right button finishes the shape and brings up the
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fast menu. Click on the still camera icon to advance to the next
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tween. Pick up the "hook" icon - also found under "Move" menu as
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"morph-hook." Clicking once with the left button enables you to
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grab the polygon dot that you've made and extend it. Stretch it
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out to a straight line; click with the left to put it down and
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then with the right button to finish the action. Click on "next
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tween." Still using the morph-hook, grab the center of the line
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and pull straight up; the "line" becomes a triangle!
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Do the left-right two-step and now lets see what we have so far.
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Click on the large movie camera icon ("Replay Whole Strip") and
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the pixel shoots smoothly across the bottom of the screen and
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then the triangle grows up from that line. One even flow.
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Now lets really cook. Choose a different color, again either
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from the color bar along the fast menu window or from the
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slightly larger representation that drops down from the main
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color window. (If you don't see one you like, choosing the
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"palette" icon takes you into a separate color control menu where
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you can mix your own.) Along the edge of the triangle on the
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screen, construct another triangle - from dot to line to triangle
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if you like or all at once. Now we have a pyramid. Select next
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tween. Under the "Move" menu select "Rotate in plane." Under the
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"Select" menu choose "All" for all polygons on the screen. Now
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pick the center around which you wish to rotate the pyramid and
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spin it this way or that. Select next tween and "Rotate around
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X." Now spin that pyramid topsy-turvy. Or choose "Rotate around
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Y" and the form will spin on a vertical axis.
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There are also controls to move the object around the screen by
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grabbing it causing it just to appear there. Or you can plot a
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free form path for your polygon to follow. You can also move the
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object toward or away from the viewer, with or without
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perspective.
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By using the "Select" menu you can "selectively" choose to
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manipulate all or any combination of polygons or even any
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combination of parts of polygons. This can lead to sights that
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have previously been unimaginable. Here is where the mind begins
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to boggle.
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By combining actions on a polygon during the same tween, you can
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achieve beautiful effects. Try taking your pyramid on a free-
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form path around the screen while spinning around both the X and
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Y axes. The program instantly combines all these effect into one
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smooth flowing animation.
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As I began to sense the possibilities of Animator, I also began
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to get a little frustrated. Three out of the four demos provided
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look so childish that you're tempted to dismiss the whole
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program. The promo literature proudly states that all the demos
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"were made by amateurs." At this stage of the game demos are not
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only what sells software, demos also sell Amigas!
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The save function was disabled on my review copy so I was unable
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to try building my own animations beyond a single session. I
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have been told the released version will also have a "player"
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program that enables you to play several animations in a loop.
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Also the glowing cursor (color register 31 is constantly cycling
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from green to purple) will be able to be toggled on or off. A
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good option.
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One problem I encountered was use of the mouse to grab particular
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polygons or points of polygons. This implementation seemed a
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little shaky - although the problem may be corrected with the
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released version or clarified with the documentation (only a demo
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sheet was supplied with my review copy).
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My only other quibble would be the lack of any keyboard input.
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Animator is completely mouse driven. One of the niceties of
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Electronic Arts' Deluxe Paint is the keyboard shortcuts that
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speed you along and allow you to work with a full screen.
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All in all, Animator is a pioneering original, and will influence
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generations of programs for years to come. Aegis' first entry in
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the Amiga sweepstakes is a real thoroughbred, and promises to be
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a winner.
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Fidonews Page 6 17 Mar 1986
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Bill Allbritten 11/301
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Using DoubleDOS and Fido 11t
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First, let me express my appreciation for the responses to my
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problems with print spoolers and communications. That appears to
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be all worked out now. Fido 11/301 is now running 24 hours a day
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at (502) 762-3140 thanks to SoftLogic's DoubleDOS program and a
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friendly area sysop who helped get things set up. I had been
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searching for an affordable multitasker for some time; Multilink
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is apparently the Cadillac of the line but the analogy holds for
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its price as well. I tried Topview. I couldn't shoehorn Fido,
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our career guidance program, DISCOVER (copyright ACT corporation)
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and Topview into a 640k machine. I don't think Topview likes
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ANSI.SYS, either. Wonder of wonders, what comes in the mail one
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day but a flier from SoftLogic. Having noted on the logon
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screens of a couple of Fidos a mention of DoubleDOS, I quickly
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ordered a copy. A sysop in a nearby city indicated that he had
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had no problem with it. The copy came and was installed. It is
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copy protected, but does not write bad sectors as part of its
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copy protection, as best I can tell. Three installs/uninstalls
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are permitted.
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We quickly got things running with DoubleDOS but the dreaded
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"Not enough memory to run" message kept popping up when Fido was
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called. Trial and error led to my clearing CONFIG.SYS and
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AUTOEXEC.BAT of all prompt and set strings, leaving only a path
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to the root directory. Things ran fine. I see that ENVIRON.FIX
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is out which tells how to alter the environment size of Fido to
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cure this problem. Well, things have run fine since then. We
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have the BBS up in background of 212k (more than is necessary for
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Fido but just enough for PIBterm) and DISCOVER in foreground with
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the remainder of memory.
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DoubleDOS only takes about 18k plus or minus depending on how
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it is configured and allows four options for printer drivers. A
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clock driven buffer seems to work fine; there is an interrupt
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driven buffer option. Given my luck with interrupts, I stayed
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away from it. DoubleDOS runs very nicely from batch, setting up
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both partitions without intervention. It also includes a screen
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blanker. I haven't tried this.
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The disk also contains a ton of other material; fixes for
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many, many programs, documentation for programmers, and a notice
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about a bulletin board run by SoftLogic. Their BBS, an RBBS
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system, can be reached at (603) 644-5556. Quite a package.
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Performance degradation occurs; but is noticeable only if you
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know what the program looks like in a single tasking situation.
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I guess about 15 percent slowdown occurs, particularly on heavy
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use of the disk. I have only found one possible problem with
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Fido and DoubleDOS.
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I am not a programmer and do not fully understand how
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Watchdog works; however, when it is run to protect the system
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during remote exits from Fido, a problem may occur when Fido is
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stopped from the console. If no program is running in the
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partition in which Watchdog was run, then switching partitions
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Fidonews Page 7 17 Mar 1986
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usually causes a crash. Anybody have any ideas? The solution I
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use is either not to attempt a partition switch when the Fido
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partition is inactive (no program running) or to run Fido without
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a setting for (O)utside or 0 (and no Watchdog) in the batch file.
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No sweat then.
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All in all a fine program, and a $49.95, reasonably priced.
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SoftLogic's address is:
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530 Chestnut Street
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Manchester, NH 03101
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I hope this review is of value to anyone needing to multitask
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Fido and who doesn't know how.
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Fidonews Page 8 17 Mar 1986
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FIDO DISTRIBUTION LIST
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12 February 1986
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If you are a distribution node, and would like to be added to
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this list, send the relevant information to the SYSOP on 109/74,
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The Bear's Den. I will release updates to this list as new
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distribution nodes are added.
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NODE NODE NAME LOCATION PHONE NUMBER Version
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100/10 MDC RCC, St._Louis_MO 314-232-6881 * D,I
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100/22 PC LUG St._Louis_MO 314-576-2743 * D,I
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100/51 DECUS Central St._Louis_MO 314-576-4129 * D,I
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101/27 Dave's FIDO Gardner_MA 617-632-1861 * All
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101/106 NewWorld Magic1 Swampscott_MA 617-595-5626 * I,G
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104/56 Denver's Fido Denver, CO 303-973-9338 * ALL
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106/343 PC-Interconnect Houston_TX 713-955-8120 I
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106/106 Black Star Houston_TX 713-458-5406 I
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107/23 HitchHikers Guide Williamson_NY 315-589-7361 D
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107/312 Dance Studio E_Brunswick_NJ 201-247-0573 I
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109/483 Wash-A-RUG Fairfax_VA 703-359-6549 D,I
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109/603 NET-EXCHANGE Reston_VA 703-689-3561 I
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114/1 Phoenix Net Phoenix_AZ 602-242-5230 I
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115/100 Illini Data_RB Bolingbrook_IL 312-759-5402 * ALL
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115/500 Sit UBU Sit Lombard_IL 312-960-5928 * ALL
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102/101 Rainbow Data Los Angeles_CA 213-204-2996 * D
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122/6 PSG COOS Bay COOS_Bay_OR 503-269-5202 * I
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124/12 Inside Track Ed Plano_TX 214-422-4772 I
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125/1 Fido's Board San_Francisco_CA 415-864-1418 * All
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125/521 Satore Center San_Francisco_CA 415-647-8528 I,V
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128/10 The Three Laws Colorado_Spgs_CO 303-574-1110 I
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129/11 TACO Sanyo Fido Trafford_PA 412-856-1428 * S
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132/107 M'Cycle Bytes Amherst_NH 603-889-3366 * All
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133/1 ATL/FIDO1 Atlanta_GA 404-928-1876 * D,I
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134/1 Calgary Fido Calgary_Alberta 403-282-1703 * I,S
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135/14 Metro-Fire Fido Miami_FL 305-596-8611 I,S,T,G
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137/19 The Ark Tangent Tampa_FL 813-977-5347 * I
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138/3 PROBUS INTRNTL Puyallup_WA 206-848-9232 * I
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138/14 BECS_Tandy_Fido Seattle_WA 206-527-5619 A (- V)
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3101/1 Fido Nl1 Ede_Holland +31-8380-37165 I
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* Supports 2400 Baud
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FIDO Version:
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I[BM], D[EC], V[ICTOR], S[ANYO], T[ANDY], G[ENERIC]
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This version of the list was squeezed a bit, to allow it to fit
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into the FIDONEWS format. If you would like a full 80 column
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copy of this list, it may be downloaded from either FIDO 109/74
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(The Bear's Den), or FIDO 109/483 (Wash-A-RUG).
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- NOTE -
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It has been pointed out to me that not all of these listed nodes
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are carrying the latest release of FIDO. If you find old or
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obsolete versions of FIDO on a listed distribution node, please
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let me know at FIDO 109/74.
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Fidonews Page 10 17 Mar 1986
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Bernie Lawrence
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Sysop - Dodge City Fido 124/3
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(214) 494-1940
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RemSysop
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Hello!
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I have written a new program to handle the USER.BBS file on
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Fidos. I'm not sure about everyone, but I'm sure there's more
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than just me that logs onto their board remotely and there's many
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of us who have co-sysops who validate users for access.
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Problem:
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The problem I've always had is that the only programs out there
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to handle the USER.BBS file were either programs that worked from
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the console only, or they were programs who took forever to do a
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simple chore because of the way they handled the screen. Most,
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if not all, simply scroll the screen and reprint the whole record
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every time you make a change.
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Not only that problem, but most, if not all, require you to use
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redirection or CTTY to work correctly. Then you run into the
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problem of carrier loss. Sure, you can run Watchdog, but
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rebooting is a sloppy way of handling things for something as
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simple as monitoring the carrier. Also, if you use redirection
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or CTTY then you can't see what's going on at the console.
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Someone could be rearranging your whole USER.BBS file and you
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wouldn't even know it because all I/O is going and coming through
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the com port. Sloppy, that's all it is.
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Solution:
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I have written a program that works both at the console and
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remotely. This program uses interrupt driven communication just
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like Fido does so that you can "type ahead" just like on Fido.
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It also displays everything on the console just like it does over
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the com port. When your co-sysop is online, you can see what he
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is doing. Not only that, but my program has a simultaneous
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keyboards option that can be toggled on/off just like Fido does.
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That way you can do things while the person on the phone watches
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on his terminal. It also has the ability to drop carrier
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immediately (Alt-X) just in case the worst nightmare were to
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occur and you find someone has broken into your system.
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When using this remotely it looks and works exactly the same as
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when using it at the console. All the output uses the ANSI
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escape sequences and so it works like a full screen program.
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When you change something it doesn't reprint the whole screen, it
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just locates the cursor and changes it on screen. That's the
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best way of doing it!
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What about carrier loss? I'm glad you asked. This program
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constantly monitors the carrier and if carrier is lost, the
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Fidonews Page 11 17 Mar 1986
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program exits and your batch file can restart Fido.
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I have released this program as shareware and it can be
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downloaded from my Fido BBS. If you like the program, please
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make a contribution so I can continue to make additions. I've
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spent a lot of time on this program, so if you like it please
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contribute and help keep shareware alive.
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REMSYS11.ARC - RemSysop version 1.1 is the current version.
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Bernie Lawrence
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Sysop - Dodge City Fido 124/3
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(214) 494-1940
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1433 Shorehaven Dr.
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Garland, Texas 75040
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Oh and while you're online check out the Village. It's another
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program I wrote that uses Fido's O)utside command. Users can
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play the Slot Machine, play the Shuffle game, have Gunfights with
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other users, etc. Of course, only normal access users can get
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into it so you'll have to wait till your second call to try the
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Village. I named it the "Village" because I had it working
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before TJ came out with the O)utside command. I just changed the
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V)ersion command to work like the 0 command, so it's been up for
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a while.
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Later days,
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Bernie Lawrence a.k.a. Josey Wales
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RemSysop (c) Copyright 1986 Lawrence All rights reserved!
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Fidonews Page 12 17 Mar 1986
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From:
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Bob Spivack
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Sysop, Fido 143/3 (408) 972-8164
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"The PC-AT" Fido
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Greetings fellow Fido users. I have finally managed to get a few
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minutes to jot down a few notes and comments in response to
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several articles in recent newsletters.
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Please feel free to respond to me directly via FidoNet, by
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calling up my Fido and leaving a message to the SYSOP, or by
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incorporating your comments in your own FidoNews article.
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1. Claims of FidoNews readership:
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Off and on I have seen claims that 50 or 60 thousand Fido
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enthousiasts read the Fidonews. Although I believe that the news
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does reach many people, I doubt it is that large. The
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calculation assumes an average number of callers per Fido node
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multiplied by the number of nodes.
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Although every Fido is different, I have found that NO ONE except
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me, the Sysop, reads the FidoNews on my system. I am curious if
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my system is an exception or whether the actual readership is
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perhaps only incrementally greater than the number of Fido
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nodes/SYSOPS.
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2. The "underlining" problem in Fido documentation:
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The problem of not all printers handling underlining well was
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raised a while back but no concensus seems to have surfaced. My
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own two-cents worth is that I truly dislike trying to peruse text
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files on my video console when they have underlining that makes
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words turn to blank spaces on my screen.
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3. Fido Addictions:
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I find that I too, cannot resist hitting control-C on my pc and
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then "Type mailer.log" as the first thing I do after I roll out
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of bed. There is just something mystical about receiving
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incoming mail. You know something can arrive every day, but you
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never know exactly where (or who) it is coming from.
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This is the real "mystique" of Fido and why, in my opinion, once
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you get hooked on Fido you can never go back to RBBS and other
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systems like that.
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4: National Mail Hour versus Free-for-all delivery:
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Recent FidoNews articles have carried messages from two SYSOPS
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complaining that Fido is getting too big for just a one hour
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nightly mail linkup. I totally disagree that the solution is to
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expand the mail time or to allow mail to be sent/received at any
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time of the day.
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The beauty (elegance, simplicity, pick your own word) of Fido is
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Fidonews Page 13 17 Mar 1986
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that the only discipline it imposes on every legitimate node is
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to be available for one hour every night to send/receive mail.
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I suspect, that the nodes that find themselves overloaded are
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trying to do too much. Maybe being a local/regional host, a
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Usenet gateway, and a high volume private node is just asking a
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bit too much.
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The whole purpose of regions, nets, subhosts, etc. is to use a
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"divide and conquer" approach to increased traffic and/or cost-
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effective (especially important for a non-commercial network)
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approach to dividing up the mail-forwarding chores.
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Along the same lines, if one or two nodes consistently have
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trouble connecting with one another, they should simply arrange a
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private mail schedule to supplement the national or local mail
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time slots.
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I don't want to stand on my soapbox too loudly, but I think the
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richness of Fido is such that there are many solutions already
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available to solving traffic congestion problems. Tom's limited
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time and effort is probably better spent adding new features or
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cpabilities that extend the concept of Fido/FidoNet rather than
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just fine-tuning it.
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To paraphrase (bastardize?) what Spock said: "The needs of the
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few or the one, should not outweigh the needs of the many!"
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Fidonews Page 14 17 Mar 1986
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Thom Henderson, 107/8
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An Alternative to LISTGEN
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Nothing against John Warren. He's done a great job on LISTGEN.
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It's just that it's a bit slow. That's not his fault. It's
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Microsoft's fault for making the BASIC compiler so slow.
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Now St. Louis is adding another step on us: applying a difference
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file to the node list. Again, nothing against them. They're
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trying to keep everybody's phone bill down.
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But still, it all adds up to more time spent creating a node list
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every week. There has GOT to be a better way!
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I've found my own solution, which I'm willing to share. I've
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written a program called XLATLIST to translate my node list, and
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I'm making it available. There's some of the usual shareware
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junk tossed in; I'll get to that in a bit.
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XLATLIST does basically what LISTGEN does, but faster. I timed
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it on node list #66 (using NODEDIFF.059 to turn NODELIST.059 into
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NODELIST.066), and tossed in four private network files. I told
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it to produce a narrow Fido list, a wide Fido list (each with a
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sorted index), a node list for Fido, and a data file for ROUTEGEN
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(a separate route file generator). It took five minutes and
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fifteen seconds. That's on a vanilla XT.
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(Side note: Is that really faster than LISTGEN? I've been
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playing with XLATLIST for a few months, so I really don't know
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anymore.)
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At any rate, it's faster still if you cut down on the number of
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files you want it to create.
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I should mention a few things. Since I was working on it anyway
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I figured I'd add some stuff. For instance, XLATLIST can add an
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index to nets and regions to the back of the Fido lists. If you
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have a copy of Ben Baker's excellent QSORT program (which I
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highly recommend) then XLATLIST can sort the index by region/net
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number.
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Also, you don't need to tell XLATLIST which node list to scan.
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It looks on your disk for the one with the highest number. While
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it's at it, it also looks for the NODEDIFF file with the highest
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number. If it finds one, then it applies it to the node list
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(but ONLY if it should!)
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This is more useful than it sounds. Allow me to expound. The
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gang in St. Louis is planning on shipping a full node list about
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once a quarter (four times a year). In between, they'll ship a
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NODEDIFF file containing only the changes to the previous node
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list. It will be your job (using a utility) to apply the changes
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to the previous week's node list in order to come up with the
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current node list.
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Since in any given week you might get either a node list OR a
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Fidonews Page 15 17 Mar 1986
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node difference file, then you have to know what to do in either
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case. Or rather, your batch file does.
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Since both will be shipped as NODEDIFF.ARC, then you can automate
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it easily using XLATLIST, like so:
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for %%x in (nodediff.a*) do arc x %%x node*.*
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xlatlist
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del nodediff.a*
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The first statement is a tricky way of extracting the NODELIST or
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NODEDIFF file from the current archive, whatever it may be named.
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The second statement invokes XLATLIST. The third statement
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cleans up the garbage. (Obviously you'll want to tailor this to
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your own situation.)
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The beauty of it is that XLATLIST will always do the right thing
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automatically. If you got a difference file, then it will apply
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it to create the new node list. If you got a node list, then it
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will reject any previous difference files and just use the node
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list.
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I mentioned ROUTEGEN, didn't I? ROUTEGEN is a companion program
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to XLATLIST. It doesn't define a new routing language or
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anything. It's basically a dedicated macro preprocessor for
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route files. A ROUTEGEN control file looks much like a Fido
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route file, except that things have been added. You can say
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things like:
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Define outhost 16
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Route-to outhost all except net-107, area-201
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Send-to country-1
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Poll area-201-478
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Now a word about shareware, as it applies to XLATLIST. Any non-
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commercial FidoNet sysop can use XLATLIST for free. See the
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manual for terms and conditions (nothing onerous, I promise!)
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Commercial users have to pay a license fee. All the rest of you
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are encouraged to encourage me (I love encouragement!), but it's
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voluntary. Ten percent of anything I get (if I get anything at
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all) will go to the International FidoNet Association. End of
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commercial.
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If you are interested, XLATLIST is available from SEAboard, node
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107/7, and probably from other places by the time you read this.
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Fidonews Page 16 17 Mar 1986
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COLUMNS
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Notes from Abroad
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Compatibility with Tapes
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Unfortunately, as the fact is for now, almost none of the
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existing tape backup systems can swap tapes. Although most of
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them use the standard 3M DC-600, it can even be a problem using a
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tape created on another system of the same make! A good (of you
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might say: Horrible) example for this is TallGrass Technologies:
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If you crash your hard disk (also a TallGrass), your tapes aren't
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worth a nickel, they cannot be restored to another TG hard disk!
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(If you haven't been wise enough to use the extremely slow file-
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by-file copy to tape function).
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Now, there seems to be a solution to all our worries: Several
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vendors have finally agreed on a new standard, called QIC-24.
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This new standard will set (among others) the way the data are
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stored, how the tape is formatted, etc. This actually means that
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any tape created at any system can be read by any other device
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using that standard (pronounced "QUICK twenty four").
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I have been in touch with Tandberg Data, one of the manufacturers
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of drives for this new standard, and they are shortly releasing a
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drive with card for PC's. Also the worldwide selling vendor
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QUBIE has promised a new tape backup using this new standard very
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soon, and several other I've been in touch with are launching
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compatible systems, too.
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My suggestion is that we all go for this new standard, it would
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make life easier for all of us.
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If you have any comments on this issue, please send mail to:
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Sysop on 4701/101 - Hackers Unlimited.
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I have sent Robert a tape containing about 250 disks of public
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domain software. A friend of mine (Alan Solomon) "borrowed" an
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AST Colossus for a couple of weeks in order to write a review for
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one of the UK PC comics. We hooked it up to one of his PC's and
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then proceeded to fill it up with public domain software. It
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took the first 100 disks of the PC-BLUE library and the fist 125
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disks of the PC-SIG library. Each disk went into its own
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subdirectory and then the whole thing was ARChived using the ARC
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program from SEA. The tape is a 60Meg DC600a, you can work out
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for yourself how much is used. It is in the QIC format as
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described above and if you can read it (and you want a copy)
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please contact either me (Frank Thornley) of Robert Hercz.
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It took about 7 days to make the tape and I suggest that anyone
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who takes a copy of the tape makes a contribution (50 pounds
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suggested) to Alan Solomon. You can contact Alan through my
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board. We are hoping to make a tape in several other formats
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(Christie, Irwin, Sysgen) When these tapes are available I will
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let you know. The idea is that we can all increase or software
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libraries. At the moment Alan and myself have put all the
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software we have on line. We too hope to increase our libraries
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so remember it's a two way operation, I expect anyone who takes a
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copy of our tape to offer Compulink any public domain software
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that we don't yet have.
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There is a box of disks circulating the UK at the moment. I
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believe these originate from Ode De Presno. These have been in
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the UK for about three months now and I still haven't seen
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them!!! If Ode (pardon me if I am spelling your name wrong)
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reads this; many thanks, and many apologies from those in the UK
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who will remain nameless for the delay in returning your disks.
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When I (eventually) receive the disks I will return them
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immediately.
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There is a lesson to be learned in this matter. If someone has
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the decency to send out some disks to be circulated we MUST make
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sure that the originator receives his disks back as soon as
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possible. I suggest that any disks to be circulated are sent to
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the various country co-ordinators, they in turn will take a copy
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and return them to the originator. If this is not practical then
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the recipient must take an copy and send them on to the next on
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the list IMMEDIATELY!!
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There is no excuse for holding onto them for weeks at a time, as
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is the case in the disks from Ode.
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Fidonews Page 18 17 Mar 1986
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WANTED
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Arlen Fletcher
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Fido 138/0
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Help!!!!
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I am searching for software that does optical ray tracing. Most
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any language would be OK. Being able to get my hands on the
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source code would be wonderful, but not a requirement. I have a
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BASIC program that performs meridional ray tracing that was
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published several years back in Sky & Telescope but it is not
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very well documented, in fact, it's not at all documented! It was
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translated from FORTRAN to BASIC back in the days when 16K of RAM
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was a lot of memory and REMark statements were out of the
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question when writing for a micro. Anyway, I'd be more than happy
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to exchange PD software, or pay the going price for a decent
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optics program. Contact me at Fido 138/0.
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Fidonews Page 19 17 Mar 1986
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FOR SALE
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ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE FOR YOUR PC!
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SUPERDOTS! KALAH!
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Professional quality games include PASCAL source! From the
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author of KALAH Version 1.6, SuperDots, a variation of the
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popular pencil/paper DOTS game, has MAGIC and HIDDEN DOT
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options. KALAH 1.7 is an African strategy game requiring
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skill to manipulate pegs around a playing board. Both games
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use the ANSI Escape sequences provided with the ANSI.SYS
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device driver for the IBM-PC, or built into the firmware on
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the DEC Rainbow. Only $19.95 each or $39.95 for both
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exciting games! Please specify version and disk format.
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These games have been written in standard TURBO-PASCAL and
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run on the IBM-PC, DEC Rainbow 100 (MSDOS and CPM), CPM/80,
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CPM/86, and PDP-11. Other disk formats are available, but
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minor customization may be required.
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BSS Software
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P.O. Box 3827
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Cherry Hill, NJ 08034
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For every order placed, a donation will be made to the Fido
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coordinators! Also, if you have a previous version of KALAH
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and send me a donation, a portion of that donation will also
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be sent to the coordinators. When you place an order, BE
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CERTAIN TO MENTION WHERE YOU SAW THE AD since it also
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appears in PC Magazine and Digital Review.
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Questions and comments can be sent to:
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Brian Sietz at Fido 107/17
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(609) 429-6630 300/1200/2400 baud
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Fidonews Page 20 17 Mar 1986
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M2Make
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A Make Utility for Modula-2
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M2Make is a utility for updating complex Modula-2 systems
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inspired by the MAKE program found on UNIX systems. The Modula-2
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language allows M2Make to work directly from your source files
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rather than requiring you to specify the dependancies of your
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various modules in a separatly written and maintained "script"
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file.
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If you are writing large Modula-2 systems then M2Make can
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save you time and frustration. You need never get another "Module
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version conflict" message in your compiles or links. You can
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update any number of interdependant DEFINITION and/or
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IMPLEMENTATION modules and create a new executable with just one
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command. Even IMPORT new modules and M2Make will automatically
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figure out which modules need to be recompiled (and only those
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which need to be recompiled).
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M2Make runs on MS-DOS (or PC-DOS) versions 2 or 3 and is
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designed to work with Logitech Modula-2/86.
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Normal distribution is via Fidonet attached files. This is
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not a public domain program so I am relying on the honesty of the
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sysops to give this program only to the intended recipient. If
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you want a diskette add $5.
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A copy of the documentation file is free and available on
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request (via fidonet again).
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M2Make executable and example files $30
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maintainance and updates $20
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sources $500
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For more information, send Fidomail to:
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Lloyd Miller, node 134/1, the Calgary_Fido
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or paper mail to:
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Lloyd Miller
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2420 Capitol Hill Crescent, N.W.
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Calgary, Alberta T2M-4C2
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Fidonews Page 21 17 Mar 1986
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Now available from Micro Consulting Associates!!
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Public Domain collection - 300+ "ARC" archives - 10 megs of
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software and other goodies, and that's "archived" size! When
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unpacked, you get approximately 17 megabytes worth of all kinds
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of software, from text editors to games to unprotection schemes
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to communications programs, compilers, interpreters, etc...
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This collection is the result of more than 10 months of intensive
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downloads from just about 100 or more BBS's and other sources,
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all of which have been examined, indexed and archived for your
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convenience. Starting a Bulletin Board System? Want to add on
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to your software base without spending thousands of dollars? This
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is the answer!!!
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To order the library, send $100 (personal or company check,
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postal money order or company purchase order) to:
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Micro Consulting Associates, Fido 103/511
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Post Office Box 4296
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200-1/2 E. Balboa Boulevard
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Balboa, Ca. 92661-4296
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Please allow 3 weeks for delivery of your order.
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Note: No profit is made from the sale of the Public Domain
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software in this collection. The price is applied entirely to
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the cost of downloading the software over the phone lines,
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running a BBS to receive file submissions, and inspecting,
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cataloguing, archiving and maintaining the files. Obtaining this
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software yourself through the use of a computer with a modem
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using commercial phone access would cost you much more than what
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we charge for the service...
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Please specify what type of format you would like the disks to be
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prepared on. The following choices are available:
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IBM PC-DOS Backup utility
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Zenith MS-DOS 2.11 Backup Utility
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DSBackup
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Fastback
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Plain ol' files (add $50, though, it's a lot of
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work and takes more diskettes...)
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Add $30 if you want the library on 1.2 meg AT disks (more
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expensive disks). There are no shipping or handling charges.
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California residents add 6% tax.
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For each sale, $10 will go to the FidoNet Administrators.
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Fidonews Page 22 17 Mar 1986
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SEAdog Electronic Mail System
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Special Offer for FidoNet Sysops
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System Enhancement Associates, the makers of the popular ARC file
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archive utility, are proud to announce the release of the SEAdog
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electronic mail system.
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SEAdog is a PC-based electronic mail system which is fully
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FidoNet compatible. In addition to all the functionality of
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FidoNet mail, SEAdog adds the following:
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o User directory support, for automatic lookup of node numbers
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o Return receipts
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o Audit trails
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o Message forwarding, with or without a retained copy
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o Twenty four hour mail reception
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o High priority mail for immediate delivery
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o The ability to request files and updates of files from other
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SEAdog systems.
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o No route files needed!
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o A full screen user interface that our beta test sites fell in
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love with!
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SEAdog is NOT a bulletin board system, but it can be used as a
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"front end" for Fido (version 11t), allowing you to add the full
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functionality of SEAdog to your existing system.
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SEAdog normally sells for $100/node, but for a limited time only
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we are offering SEAdog to registered FidoNet sysops for only $35!
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Orders may be placed by sending a check or money order to:
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System Enhancement Associates
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21 New Street, Wayne NJ 07470
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Or by calling (201) 473-5153 (VISA and MasterCard accepted).
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Fidonews Page 23 17 Mar 1986
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NOTICES
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The Interrupt Stack
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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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If you have something which you would like to see on this
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calendar, please send a message to Fido 1/1.
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Fidonews Page 24 17 Mar 1986
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