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Volume 3, Number 26 7 July 1986
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| - FidoNews - /|oo \ |
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| Fido and FidoNet _`@/_ \ _ |
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| (C) Copyright 1986 by IFNA (________) (_/(_|(____/ |
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Editor in Chief: Thom Henderson
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Chief Procrastinator Emeritus: Tom Jennings
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FidoNews is the official newsletter of the International FidoNet
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Association, and is published weekly by SEAdog Leader, node 1/1.
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You are encouraged to submit articles for publication in
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FidoNews. Article submission standards are contained in the file
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FNEWSART.DOC, available from node 1/1.
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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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Deteriorata
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2. ARTICLES
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Freshening ARCs Before Posting for Download
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Employment Opportunities Notes 2
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Last Embrace - a cautionary tale.
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Tips on QNEWUSER.BBS for Semi-Private Systems
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Computer worms
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3. COLUMNS
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Hard Disk Usage and Management Tips, Part 2
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Computer Industry SpotLight
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Job Market Research Part I
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4. WANTED
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Auto-shuffle news letter as a scheduled event
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Computer Training Cruise Market Survey
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Wanted: Citadel sysops!
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5. FOR SALE
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Entertainment Software for your PC!
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Public Domain Software Library Sale!!
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SERVTECH from Rylos Technologies
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6. NOTICES
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The Interrupt Stack
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CARTOON: Gruesome George, by Bruce White
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Computer Training Market Survey
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Fidonews Page 2 7 Jul 1986
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Changing of the Guard in Net 135
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Sched version 4 is now out
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Fidonews Page 3 7 Jul 1986
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EDITORIAL
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Deteriorata
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Go placidly amid the noise and waste and remember what
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comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof. Avoid quiet and
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passive persons unless you are in need of sleep. Rotate your
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tires. Speak glowingly of those greater than yourself and heed
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well their advice, even though they be turkeys. Know what to
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kiss, and when. Consider that two wrongs never make a right, but
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that three do. Wherever possible, put people on hold. Be
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comforted that in the face of all aridity and disillusionment and
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despite the changing fortunes of time, there is always a big
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future in computer maintenance.
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Remember the Pueblo. Strive at all times to bend, fold,
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spindle, and mutilate. Know yourself. If you need help, call
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the FBI. Exercise caution in your daily affairs, especially with
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those persons closest to you - that tomato on your left, for
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instance. Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls
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would scarcely get your feet wet. Fall not in love, therefore;
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it will stick to your face. Gracefully surrender the things of
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youth, birds, clean air, tuna, Taiwan. And let not the sands of
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time get in your lunch. Hire people with hooks. For a good
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time, call 606-4311, ask for Ken. Take heart amid the deepening
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gloom that your dog is finally getting enough cheese. And
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reflect that whatever misfortune may be your lot, it could only
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be worse in Milwaukee.
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You are a fluke of the universe. You have no right to be
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here. And whether you can hear it or not, the universe is
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laughing behind your back.
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Therefore, make peace with your god, whatever you conceive
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him to be: hairy thunderer or cosmic muffin. With all its hopes,
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dreams, promises, and urban renewal, the world continues to
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deteriorate. Give up.
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Fidonews Page 4 7 Jul 1986
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ARTICLES
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Christopher Baker
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Metro-Fire Fido, 135/14
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ARC F and the Local Sysop
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All of us, who are System Operators, know that time is precious
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and tasks always seem to expand to fill the available time, no
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matter what we started out to do. At no time is this more true
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than when conducting Long Distance (LD) BBSing for program up-
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dates or new files.
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There is a tendency for Sysops to put files that have been ARCed
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and uploaded to them by Xmodem into their download sections
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without checking the file for correct date. If an ARCed file is
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transferred by Xmodem to a system, the transfer leaves the ARC
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rounded up to the nearest block and changes the date of the ARC.
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This leads to confusion, especially on systems where the file
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description does not include the version number of the program in
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question. The files within the ARC are, of course, unaffected by
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the transfer and their dates are intact but the user cannot run
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ARC v on the file to see the REAL date. This is the Sysop's
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responsibility.
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The problem is not as prevalent on Fido systems as it is on RBBS
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and other systems that do not support Telink or Kermit. Since
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Telink and Kermit send the true filename, filesize, and filedate,
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there is no need to convert the ARCs back to normal after
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receiving them. There are still PLENTY of users that don't use
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anything but Xmodem, though, and their uploads need attention
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from the Sysop BEFORE they are moved to a download area,
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particularly, if the R)aw command is available to the user. When
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I'm in a hurry on LD (and who isn't?), I use the R)aw command
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whenever it's available to check for new filedates and gauge my
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downloading accordingly.
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To avoid the confusion of filedates on ARCs, the Sysop has only
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to check the ARC filedate against the internal filedates. If they
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do not match, the Sysop can bring the ARC into agreement very
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simply by running the Freshen command of ARC.EXE against the
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file. To wit:
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ARC f filename <cr>.
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This will write the file out to the disk, remove the round up
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block if any, and restore the ARC filedate to match the dates of
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the files within the ARC. To avoid the possibility of updating
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files within the ARC from files in the current directory, I
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suggest conducting these conversions in a blank or working
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directory. A blank directory will require at least one dummy file
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to get the re-write going. Create a dummy file of one line using
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EDLIN or the Copy CON <filename> command. Call it something
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original (like DUMMY.FIL) to avoid matching an existing filename
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Fidonews Page 5 7 Jul 1986
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in any ARC. You must have enough disk space to accommodate the
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filesize in question and the matching filesize of the mirror
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image that ARC F is going to create.
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If every Sysop would take the time to clean up these Xmodemed
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ARCs, there would never be a question of how new a file is when
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BBSing. (Version numbers wouldn't hurt either, you guys.)
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Fidonews Page 6 7 Jul 1986
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W.R.Hunter/E.S.Hunter
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Fido 109/626
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On-Line Employment Opportunities
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The Employment Opportunities Listings, available from the
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NOVA_WEG have been available now for two months and the response
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is good after such a short period of time. In case you missed
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the FidoNews article introducing this FREE service, in a
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nutshell, we have been gathering current employment vacancies
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from firms in/or closely associated with the computer industry
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around the country and making these positions known via FidoNet
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Mail to whomever would like to receive this listing and make it
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available to others (user's or sysop's). It is updated weekly
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and includes other information such as "How to" conduct your job
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search, and we have been "spot-lighting" different companies each
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week in the computer field.
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Currently theses listings are available on the following
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Fido boards:
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Net/Node Board Name Location
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========== ============= ===========
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107/316 Metatek Fido Toms River,NJ
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107/601 Stone Wall Boyertown,PA
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138/37 Mac's Revenge Tacoma, WA
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900/1 Bits-&-Bytes Nashville,TN
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18/12 The Rat's Nest Columbia,SC
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154/5 GENERIC Crossroads Milwaukee,WI
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We understand that there are other boards currently making
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the listings available by obtaining them from the boards shown
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above. This we encourage as the more that can benefit from this,
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the better.
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If there are any other REGIONAL HOSTS or NET HOSTS that
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would like to make these listing available to their respective
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FidoNodes, drop us a line via NetMail and we will be happy to
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send the listings to you. If any individual nodes would like to
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receive the listings, first check with your HOST or COORDINATOR
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to see if they might be receiving them already, and if not,
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contact us directly.
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To add to the listings already circulating, we are making
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available Employment Opportunities in the BANKING AND FINANCE
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INDUSTRY beginning the first Monday in July. If anyone would be
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interested in this listing it will also be available on request.
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Any firms that wish to send a position notice, please do so
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via NetMail or by U.S.Mail to:
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W.E.G.Systems
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P.O. Box 5072
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Springfield, Va 22150
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Be sure your position notice arrives here by Saturday to be
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Fidonews Page 7 7 Jul 1986
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included in the next weeks listings.
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These listing are made available to AID in the job searching
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effort, and provide another avenue for firms to obtain the
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quality personnel they seek. GOOD LUCK!
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Fidonews Page 8 7 Jul 1986
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LAST EMBRACE
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by Rich Gough
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on Fido 129/26
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David turned the key in the lock and opened the door. Hanging his
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coat in the closet, he noticed the flashing light on his
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telephone answering machine. It was 11 PM -- it had taken a a
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couple of hours longer than he expected to fix the hard disk
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problem at the trucking company. Flipping the switch, he heard
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the messages rewind -- buzzing interuppted by 5 beeps. He sighed
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-- a computer consultant's work is never done.
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"Hey David, this is Mike. My subscription to TV Guide ran out --
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can you tell me what's going to be on USA Nightflight tonight?"
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BEEP
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"David, this is Carol at the Food Warehouse. I've got a problem
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and I need you to call me back as soon as you can. It's 8 PM."
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BEEP
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"David, this is Carol again. It's 10 PM and I have three reports
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that I have to get down by tommorrow. Please come over and help
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me as soon as you can."
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BEEP
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"David, it's 10:30 PM and I'm really desperate."
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BEEP
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"Damn!"
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BEEP
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David switched the machine back to record, and dialed Carol's
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number. A busy signal told him that at least she was still there.
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She might even be trying to call him. If he left now, he could be
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there by midnight.
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David knocked on the corrugated metal door and when there was no
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answer, the rolled the sliding door aside and stepped in. Up a
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narrow flight of stairs, past the fans of the cold room. Stepping
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into the office, he heard a crunch and looked at the floor. There
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were white fragments all over the floor -- someone must have
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dropped a coffee cup. That reminded him - coffee. It looked like
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it would be a long night. The coffee maker was still plugged in
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-- he poured himself the last cup. A sip told him it was too hot
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and too bitter. He set it next to the computer and sat down. Time
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for some detective work to find out what was wrong and fix it.
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"Carol!" he called. She must be in the Ladies Room. "Might as
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well get to work" he said to himself.
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A glance at the screen told him that she was in the middle of the
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General Ledger program, closing out the month of January. The
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screen was frozen -- no keys had any effect. Nothing to do but
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switch the computer off and start again. As he waited for the
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hard disk to settle, he looked around. Carol was big on lists.
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Tacked to the wall was a list of the 100 most popular food items.
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On the desk was a list of her objectives for the day. Accounts
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Payable, Accounts Recievable and General Ledger were at the top
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of the list, and the only things not crossed out. He knew from
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experience that these programs were disk intensive, and could
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Fidonews Page 9 7 Jul 1986
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take hours to run. He also found the manual to a multi-tasking
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program that could let more than one program run at once. He
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switched the computer on and flipped throught the manual while he
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waited for the RAM test to complete. A look at Carol's notes
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showed what she was trying to do -- save time by running all
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three reports at the same time. David knew the problem that must
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have occurred and a few keystrokes proved his conclusion.
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First he started Accounts Payable, then created a new task and
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started Accounts Recievable, then created a third task and
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started General Ledger. Hitting a few keys produced no response,
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proving his theory that the system was locked in a classic
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example of a Deadly Embrace. Programs A and B both need access to
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files 1 and 2. A file can only be updated by one program at a
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time. Program A grabs file 1 while Program B grabs file 2. Then
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Program A tries to grab file 2 (which B has locked on to) while
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Program B tries to grab file 1 (which A has). Result - each
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program waits for the other to give up its file and no work gets
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done. With three programs going at the same time, the problem
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would be even worse--crowded together in memory and fighting for
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the same files, it would be a sort of menage a trois. The only
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solutions are to avoid running programs that use the same files
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at the same time. If you must, make sure all programs open files
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in the same order.
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David restarted the system, and started just the Accounts Payable
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program. It would take a couple of hours, but at least it would
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get done. Noticing the coffee had cooled, he swallowed the whole
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cup at one gulp. David stood up and walked around the desks. As
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he passed the cubicle near the door, he saw a high-heeled shoe on
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the floor. Stepping into the cubicle he saw Carol's body sprawled
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on the floor. A touch to the neck told him she was dead--no
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pulse, and her flesh was cooling. The handle of a shattered
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coffee mug was still held in the fingers. Pieces had scattered
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across the floor under the partition. On the table next to the
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body was a note, addressed to him. David was starting to feel
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numb. She had despaired over the computer and other problems and
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put poison in her own coffee pot. He reached for the phone but
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ended up shivering on the floor. As he felt the coldness wash
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over him, he put his arms around Carol's body and hugged her.
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Fidonews Page 10 7 Jul 1986
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Christopher Baker
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Metro-Fire Fido, 135/14
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Everything You Wanted to Know About QNEWUSER.BBS
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but etc., etc., etc...
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The following is an excerpt of a message I received from Gee
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Wong, IBM HELP, 1/100, when I asked him to give me the lowdown on
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the use of QNEWUSER in a semi-private system (/p option in Fido).
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QNEWUSER.BBS is a questionaire file that Fido uses to query new
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users on a Fido being operated in the semi-private mode.
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QNEWUSER can be used to display text and/or ask questions and
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follows the language format detailed in the Fido manual for
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creating a questionaire (QUESTION.BBS). As the new user answers
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the questions posed by QNEWUSER.BBS, Fido creates a corresponding
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text file called ANEWUSER.BBS. ANEWUSER can then be used for
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verification or record-keeping purposes by the Sysop. Like a
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QUESTION.BBS questionaire, QNEWUSER cannot be aborted by the new
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user with Control-C or Control-K, so a Control-B at the beginning
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of the file is not necessary to prevent the user from skipping
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what you WANT him/her to read and answer.
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The following is the gist of the answer I received:
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From: Gee Wong on 107/312, Dance Studio, East Brunswick, NJ
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As for your question on QNEWUSER. If you use QNEWUSER, Fido will
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perform the following during logon for a new user:
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1) prompt user for name
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2) display contents of NEWUSER1.BBS if this file exists
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3) ask user to pick a password
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4) display the contents of QNEWUSER.BBS and prompt
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user for answers to any questions in this file
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5) prevent NEWUSER2.BBS from being displayed if this
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file exists
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6) prompt user for password
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7) display contents of BULLETIN.BBS if this file exists
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8) put user into Main Section of Fido.
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Forwarded by 135/7, Miami's First Fido, Al Delatorre, 6/3
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Here follows a brief example of the format you can use:
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* Beginning of Example *
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*
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You cannot abort the following display. Control C & K are
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disabled.
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Follow the instructions completely. Now is a good time to turn on
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your printer or capture file.
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If you have not called this system in the last 60 days, your name
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and password have been PURGED from the system. You will have to
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go through the verification process again!
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New User Verification Questionaire
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You MUST answer EVERY question in order to be verified for
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access. If a question doesn't apply to you, enter N/A. Do not
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skip answers. You will NOT be verified unless all the answers
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are given.
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Be VERY careful. Do not hit return until you have made your entry
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on each line. If you hit return before finishing a response, Fido
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will advance to the next line/question. You will have space to
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make corrections at the end of the questionaire. Each line can
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hold up to 65 characters of information.
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What is your Full name (No handles)?
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/>
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Where are you calling from (City, ST)?
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/>
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What is your HOME telephone number (Area code first)?
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/>
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Is this a listed or unlisted number?
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/>
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What is your BUSINESS telephone number (Area code first)?
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/>
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What is your occupation? (If you are a student, specify the school.)
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/>
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What Password did you select?
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/>
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What is the name of your Department (optional)?
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/>
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What kind of computer are you using?
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/>
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State your modem brand, type and speed below (two lines):
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/Modem>
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/Speed>
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What communications program do you normally use for BBSing?
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/>
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Why? (You have two lines.)
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/>
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/>
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What is the BEST time to contact you at Home?
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/>
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What is the BEST time to contact you at Work?
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/>
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Use the next four lines to, briefly, describe your level of
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Computer skill including languages or operating systems you are
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most familiar with. If you do not need all four lines, hit return
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to go on.
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/Level>
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/OpSys>
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/Langs>
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/Other>
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Fidonews Page 12 7 Jul 1986
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How old are you (optional)?
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+6 (1) <18 (2) 18-25 (3) 26-35 (4) 36-50 (5) 51-99 (6) Not saying>
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?Why not?>
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How did you find out about this BBS? Be specific, you have two
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lines. If a friend recommended it, NAME the friend. If you saw
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it on a BBS, NAME the BBS. This is NOT optional. (You have two
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lines.)
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/>
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/>
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Are you a FidoNet Sysop?
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+2 (1) No (2) Yes >
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?Net/Node >
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Are you a non-FidoNet Sysop?
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+2 (1) No (2) Yes >
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?Please give system name, location & number >
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If you have any questions, comments, or changes, use the next
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three lines to enter them. If you do not need the space, hit
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return to go on.
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/>
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/>
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/>
|
||
|
||
|
||
If you have completed this questionaire on a Saturday or Sunday,
|
||
it will take a few days to be verified. The Sysop is off on those
|
||
days.
|
||
|
||
* End of Example *
|
||
|
||
The asterisk in the first line appends the user name to the
|
||
ANEWUSER file information. Within the confines of the prompt and
|
||
question structure, you can configure the display to your own
|
||
taste. All of the text lines without a '/' or '+' or '?' are
|
||
output, as is, to the user when Fido puts him into the
|
||
questionaire. Lines preceeded by a '/' stop the questionaire and
|
||
wait for input or <cr> from the user (note: line noise can play
|
||
havoc with this process and may cause some prompts to be skipped
|
||
without user intervention.). Lines preceeded by a '+' set up a
|
||
multiple choice condition. The number following the plus
|
||
indicates how many choices will be offered. The last choice
|
||
listed, when selected by the user, prompts Fido to display the
|
||
contents of the line preceeded by the '?' and waits for user
|
||
input. Thus, the LAST choice listed is the one you are trying to
|
||
get amplification of; the other choices are listed in the
|
||
ANEWUSER file but ignored for purposes of user input. Make SURE
|
||
you list the point you want more information on as the LAST
|
||
choice in that line.
|
||
|
||
The QNEWUSER.BBS can be as long or as short as you like.
|
||
Experiment.
|
||
|
||
I hope this helps those of you doing it the hard way (like I
|
||
was). Many thanks to Gee Wong for the advice and assistance.
|
||
Fidonews Page 13 7 Jul 1986
|
||
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
Fidonews Page 14 7 Jul 1986
|
||
|
||
|
||
John Bekas, 115/212
|
||
|
||
Computer worms
|
||
--------------
|
||
|
||
After seeing two boards in my net getting destroyed by those
|
||
nasty programs called WORMS, or by the nasty people who make it a
|
||
habit of crashing boards, I am getting scared. All the Sysops
|
||
are asking themselves, "How can I stop my board from being next?"
|
||
Well, hopefully someone will figure it out.
|
||
|
||
Some reasonable ways of not getting your board crashed are:
|
||
|
||
1) By having a close friend, who doesn't have a hard drive try
|
||
it, and test it out for a while. After a while, have them
|
||
give you a report on how things went.
|
||
|
||
2) Not bugging the users to upload, because they usually get so
|
||
mad at the Sysop, that they don't want to call anymore. They
|
||
think it is fun to ruin the board, and make them feel sorry
|
||
for asking for uploads.
|
||
|
||
3) Finding out about a file before you run it, because you never
|
||
know what it may be. The real dangers about this is that
|
||
those people that make these programs make it look and sound
|
||
like the real program, and then make it turn against you. This
|
||
can be a slight bit of a problem.
|
||
|
||
4) Make your system private, and only allow close friends, and
|
||
people who you know are O.K. to have.
|
||
|
||
5) NEVER download from a upload area that hasn't been tested!
|
||
|
||
6) Download all your files to a blank floppy, and use a program
|
||
that will protect your hard drive from being written to.
|
||
|
||
Some not so reasonable ways of not getting crashed are:
|
||
|
||
1) Don't bother downloading from other boards.
|
||
|
||
2) Don't ask the users to upload files. Get all the files from a
|
||
close friend who had them a while (Public Domain and Freeware,
|
||
please don't pirate!).
|
||
|
||
3) Take down your board, and throw away anything that has to do
|
||
with communications. This would of course be the ultimate
|
||
thing to do, which I doubt any Sysops would want to do.
|
||
|
||
I know that you have all heard this before, and are saying, "It
|
||
will never happen to me..." But talk to the Sysops whose boards
|
||
got destroyed, and you will find out the real truth behind that
|
||
phrase. I am sure you thought about it quite a few times, but
|
||
have never done anything about it.
|
||
|
||
Please make sure you are careful of which files you have, and how
|
||
you use them. And remember this short safety tip.
|
||
Fidonews Page 15 7 Jul 1986
|
||
|
||
|
||
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
Fidonews Page 16 7 Jul 1986
|
||
|
||
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
COLUMNS
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
|
||
Taking Advantage of Your PC's Hard Disk:
|
||
Part II, DOS BATch Files
|
||
|
||
Barry Gordon
|
||
New York Personal Computer, Inc.
|
||
|
||
DOS and BATch Files
|
||
|
||
Familiarity with DOS is assumed. However, it is helpful to the
|
||
new user to include a paragraph or two on BATch files. The IBM
|
||
PC and DOS work with three different kinds of program or command
|
||
files: .EXE, .COM, and .BAT files. (BASIC and BASICA work with
|
||
their own .BAS files, but those are not relevant to the present
|
||
discussion.) The .EXE and .COM files give instructions to the PC
|
||
itself. They are produced by assemblers, compilers, and linkers.
|
||
The .BAT or BATch files are instructions to DOS which you create
|
||
for your own convenience. I will discuss a couple of commands
|
||
that you may find convenient in working on your PC: the DOS
|
||
PROMPT command and the PATH command.
|
||
|
||
The DOS PROMPT Command
|
||
|
||
Just as DOS keeps track of a default disk drive, it will also
|
||
keep track of each drive's current directory (the directory you
|
||
are working in). Most often, this directory is the one you tell
|
||
DOS to assume and use when no other is specified. The DOS prompt
|
||
always has indicated the default disk drive followed by the
|
||
greater-than symbol: A> which works well for diskette drives.
|
||
With a hard disk, you will want to know the directory you are
|
||
working in (the current directory) as well. You can customize
|
||
the prompt to show the current directory using the DOS PROMPT
|
||
command. The command PROMPT $P$G tells DOS to display the name
|
||
of the current directory whenever the prompt appears on your
|
||
screen. Other, more elaborate, prompt variations are possible,
|
||
but $P$G is a useful beginning.
|
||
|
||
The DOS PATH Command
|
||
|
||
The actual program fetching is accomplished by means of the DOS
|
||
PATH command. This command tells DOS where to look for your
|
||
programs (the executable files) when they are not in the current
|
||
directory. The overall scheme begins to take shape: you work in
|
||
the (current) directory containing your data files, and DOS looks
|
||
for the programs you need (in priority sequence) in other sub-
|
||
directories. Thus, your PATH command might look something like
|
||
this:
|
||
|
||
PATH C:\anyname1;C:\anyname2;C:\any3
|
||
|
||
The PATH command should contain the full specification of each
|
||
sub-directory, including the drive designation. This keeps the
|
||
search path valid even if you should decide to make, say, drive
|
||
Fidonews Page 17 7 Jul 1986
|
||
|
||
|
||
A: the default drive temporarily. Since the root directory is
|
||
not named, it is not included in the PATH command.
|
||
|
||
Of course, having to enter all of this PROMPT and PATH
|
||
information each time you turn on your PC can become a nuisance.
|
||
The proper way to handle this is to create special BATch files in
|
||
the root directory that store and execute your commands.
|
||
|
||
Creating BATch Files
|
||
|
||
The most direct way to create .BAT files is to use the DOS
|
||
ability to COPY a file directly from the PC keyboard into a disk
|
||
file:
|
||
|
||
COPY CON filename.BAT
|
||
|
||
where CON is the DOS name for the keyboard, and "filename"
|
||
represents the name you wish to give your new BATch file. You
|
||
enter your file contents, line by line, ending with a line
|
||
containing ^Z (Control-Z), which can be entered by pressing the
|
||
Function Key 6 (F6). As an alternative (though I don't recommend
|
||
it) you could learn to use EDLIN, a minimal file editor, whose
|
||
chief virtue is its automatic inclusion with the DOS package.
|
||
For serious work of this kind, a good file editor is a great
|
||
help. The IBM Personal Editor is one of the very best.
|
||
|
||
The AUTOEXEC and SETPATH BATch Files
|
||
|
||
The AUTOEXEC.BAT file is executed only at startup (unless you
|
||
specifically enter it), and contains those commands you wish to
|
||
enter for your convenience in operating your PC.
|
||
|
||
A simple version of an AUTOEXEC.BAT file might look like this:
|
||
|
||
DATE
|
||
TIME
|
||
PROMPT $P$G
|
||
PATH C:\anyname1;C:\anyname2;C:\any3
|
||
|
||
The first thing you may want to do is to move the PATH command
|
||
from the AUTOEXEC.BAT file and put it in its own BATch file
|
||
called SETPATH.BAT. The AUTOEXEC.BAT would have these four
|
||
lines:
|
||
|
||
DATE
|
||
TIME
|
||
PROMPT $P$G
|
||
SETPATH
|
||
|
||
Your SETPATH.BAT file would look like this:
|
||
|
||
PATH C:\anyname1;C:\anyname2;C:\any3
|
||
|
||
Putting the PATH command in the SETPATH.BAT file lets you modify
|
||
your program search path any time you wish, and then restore it
|
||
by getting into the root directory and entering the SETPATH
|
||
Fidonews Page 18 7 Jul 1986
|
||
|
||
|
||
command.
|
||
|
||
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
Fidonews Page 19 7 Jul 1986
|
||
|
||
|
||
William/Eunhee Hunter
|
||
Fido 109/626
|
||
|
||
Computer Industry SpotLight on:
|
||
|
||
ELECTRONIC DATA SYSTEMS CORP. -- Founded in 1962, EDS has grown
|
||
from a single employee to a multi-national corporation employing
|
||
more than 13,000 people. The company is the leading supplier of
|
||
computer services in the following industries: finance (banks,
|
||
thrifts, and credit unions), commercial insurance, and health
|
||
care. Data processing services are conducted mainly at five
|
||
large information processing centers. EDS currently owns 25
|
||
mainframe computers, leases 66 more, and operates 12 supplied by
|
||
customers. A high percentage of the hiring at EDS is for the
|
||
company's entry-level development programs. They are looking for
|
||
applicants with an interest in technical careers, and are
|
||
curently recruiting individuals with business and technical
|
||
backgrounds. The largest number of job openings is in systems
|
||
engineering. EDS ofers a Systems Engineering Development Program
|
||
-- an 18-month development program involving business exposure
|
||
through on-the-job problem solving with other EDS professionals
|
||
and customers.
|
||
|
||
Contact: Dick Morrison, VP Human Resources, Electronic Data
|
||
Systems Corp., 100 Forest Lane, Dallas, TX 75230.
|
||
|
||
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
Fidonews Page 20 7 Jul 1986
|
||
|
||
|
||
William/Eunhee Hunter
|
||
Fido 109/626
|
||
|
||
JOB MARKET RESEARCH - A PRIMER
|
||
|
||
|
||
For most Americans in the professional and paraprofessional
|
||
fields, few experiences ever seem quite as difficult and
|
||
frustrating as job hunting. The essential problem, of course, is
|
||
locating suitable opportunities. For even today's "Information
|
||
Age," finding timely and accurate career information has remained
|
||
an extremely difficult problem. Employment agencies, for
|
||
example, usually have only very incomplete regional information.
|
||
Classified ads in newspapers are another source -- one usually
|
||
relied on very heavily by job seekers -- but this information is
|
||
also usually regional, as well as incomplete (especially since
|
||
most of the better jobs are never advertised in newspapers).
|
||
|
||
Having tried both private and public employment agencies and
|
||
newspaper advertisements -- and presumably, having also exhausted
|
||
their access to information through personal and business
|
||
contacts -- many white-collar job seekers turn to professional
|
||
recruiters (i.e., "headhunters"). Here too, the result is often
|
||
frustration -- wasted time, effort, and usually, a good deal of
|
||
money. For most job seekers, such firms provide much advice and
|
||
encouragement and few actual job interviews.
|
||
|
||
College students about to graduate -- both from two and four
|
||
year institutions -- are generally in a much better position
|
||
since they have their placement/counseling offices to assist
|
||
them, though of course alumni usually have access to the same
|
||
services if they choose to use them. But unfortunately, most
|
||
students and alumni make inadequate use of the resources
|
||
available to them. There is a tendency to view these offices
|
||
solely as meeting places for interviews with corporate
|
||
recruiters. This is a serious mistake, for two reasons. First,
|
||
most students will fail to find jobs through campus interviews;
|
||
and second -- perhaps even more important -- most major companies
|
||
do not regard campus interviews as a preferred means of contact
|
||
with applicants. A recent employer survey by The Charoman Group,
|
||
Inc., an educational consulting firm, found that only 18 percent
|
||
of major employers believe college placement interviews to be the
|
||
most effective means of contact with applicants. Rather, most
|
||
companies preferred that the initial contact be initiated by the
|
||
applicant by means of the most simple and direct method possible:
|
||
a standard resume and cover letter sent to the appropriate
|
||
official.
|
||
|
||
Of course it remains true that campus interviews -- as well
|
||
as any of the other job hunting methods mentioned above -- may
|
||
prove successful in individual cases. The point is that, for
|
||
most people, these methods offer limited prospects of success.
|
||
Thus most job seekers are well-advised to try another route: A
|
||
PLANNED, SYSTEMATIC JOB MARKET RESEARCH EFFORT. By this means
|
||
the job seeker in effect takes the initiative in locating
|
||
suitable job openings in his or her field. Surprisingly, not a
|
||
Fidonews Page 21 7 Jul 1986
|
||
|
||
|
||
great deal of time is required -- perhaps twenty hours for most
|
||
people. And the resources needed for the research effort are
|
||
available in most college placement or counseling offices, and in
|
||
virtually all of the larger public libraries.
|
||
|
||
Next article will deal with the FIRST STEP - CHOOSING AN
|
||
INDUSTRY.
|
||
|
||
Distributed via FidoNet BBS by NOVA_WEG Fido 109/626, W.E.G.
|
||
Systems, P.O. Box 5072, Springfield, VA 22150. Permission is
|
||
given to reprint and distribute this article provided no changes
|
||
to its content take place.
|
||
|
||
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
Fidonews Page 22 7 Jul 1986
|
||
|
||
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
WANTED
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
|
||
William Bertholf
|
||
Fido 107/102
|
||
|
||
WANTED: a program that will do the following:
|
||
1) read Fido system records to find the FidoNet File path name.
|
||
2) search that directory for FNEWS???.ARC
|
||
3) if not found then set errorlevel to zero (0) and exit to DOS.
|
||
4) for each FNEWS???.ARC found do the following:
|
||
4.1) Move it (not copy) to designated file area
|
||
4.2) append to the end of the end of FILES.BBS the following
|
||
FNEWS???.ARC FidoNewsLetter <date from top right of page 1>
|
||
4.3) delete FIDONEWS.TXT
|
||
4.4) ARC xn FNEWS???.ARC
|
||
4.5) rename the result of 4.4 to FIDONEWS.TXT
|
||
|
||
Note: Step 4 is done in ascending order of file name.
|
||
|
||
Syntax: FIDONEWS <pathname>
|
||
|
||
A more generalized program could auto-shuffle other things also.
|
||
|
||
|
||
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
Fidonews Page 23 7 Jul 1986
|
||
|
||
|
||
WANTED - WANTED - WANTED
|
||
YOUR OPINION
|
||
|
||
Since you are reading this in FIDO NEWS you are in some way
|
||
involved with microcomputers (?). We want, NO WE NEED, your
|
||
opinion.
|
||
|
||
Please take a minute to fill out the following questionnaire.
|
||
|
||
1. Would you take a VACATION that costs between $2500 and $3500
|
||
per person includes ROUND TRIP air fare to HAWAII, SEVEN LUXURI-
|
||
OUS DAYS CRUISING the HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, SIX SUMPTUOUS MEALS A
|
||
DAY, and all shipboard activities? _____ YES _____ no
|
||
|
||
2. Would you take the VACATION, if it included HANDS ON MICROCOM-
|
||
PUTER INSTRUCTION covering equipment BASICS, operating systems,
|
||
microcomputer SYSTEM requirements/ORGANIZATION, application
|
||
SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS/ORGANIZATION, training on WORD PROCESSING,
|
||
SPREADSHEET design/management, DATABASE building /management,
|
||
other applications (Graphics, Communications)?
|
||
_____ YES _____ no
|
||
|
||
3. Would you take the VACATION, if the TRAINING was scheduled so
|
||
it did not interfere with CRUISE ACTIVITIES? _____ YES _____ no
|
||
|
||
4. Would you take the VACATION, if it was a PROFESSIONALLY and
|
||
personally ENHANCING experience? _____ YES _____no
|
||
|
||
5. Would you take the VACATION, if you could bring your spouse
|
||
(or who ever) and UP TO 33% on the second traveler? _____ YES
|
||
_____no
|
||
|
||
6. Would you take the VACATION, if your part is TAX DEDUCTIBLE?
|
||
______YES ______no
|
||
|
||
7. INTERESTED? OF COURSE YOU ARE!
|
||
Send a self-addressed, STAMPED envelope to:
|
||
|
||
Computer Cruise Hawaii
|
||
C/O Computer Station
|
||
1500 Kapiolani Blvd
|
||
Honolulu, Hi 96815
|
||
|
||
OR send a FIDO message to SYSOP, FIDO 12/0 at (808) 942-2508 - be
|
||
sure to include your mailing address.
|
||
|
||
DO IT NOW!
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
Fidonews Page 24 7 Jul 1986
|
||
|
||
|
||
/**** Citadel system operators! ****/
|
||
|
||
I'm looking for operators of Citadel or similar room-oriented
|
||
BBS systems (such as Citadel-86, StoneHenge, etc.) who would be
|
||
interested in having their systems listed in a national list.
|
||
|
||
Send me FidoMail containing:
|
||
System's name
|
||
Phone number
|
||
Baud rate
|
||
Hours of operation
|
||
Sysop's name
|
||
System hardware (KayPro II, Xerox 820, etc.)
|
||
Operating system
|
||
Code/version number (2.10, 2.11, etc.)
|
||
|
||
If you have the source code, let me know where you got it.
|
||
(Such as C Users' Group disks 028 and 029; SIG/M #150; etc.)
|
||
|
||
Also, please indicate whether or not you would be interested in
|
||
contributing to a Citadel newletter, the existance of which
|
||
depends on the sort of response I get. Thanks.
|
||
|
||
Andy Meyer
|
||
FidoMail 107/35
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
Fidonews Page 25 7 Jul 1986
|
||
|
||
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
FOR SALE
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
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|
||
author of KALAH Version 1.6, SuperDots, a variation of the
|
||
popular pencil/paper DOTS game, has MAGIC and HIDDEN DOT
|
||
options. KALAH 1.7 is an African strategy game requiring
|
||
skill to manipulate pegs around a playing board. Both games
|
||
use the ANSI Escape sequences provided with the ANSI.SYS
|
||
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|
||
the DEC Rainbow. Only $19.95 each or $39.95 for both
|
||
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|
||
These games have been written in standard TURBO-PASCAL and
|
||
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|
||
CPM/86, and PDP-11. Other disk formats are available, but
|
||
minor customization may be required.
|
||
|
||
BSS Software
|
||
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|
||
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|
||
|
||
|
||
For every order placed, a donation will be made to the Fido
|
||
coordinators! Also, if you have a previous version of KALAH
|
||
and send me a donation, a portion of that donation will also
|
||
be sent to the coordinators. When you place an order, BE
|
||
CERTAIN TO MENTION WHERE YOU SAW THE AD since it also
|
||
appears in PC Magazine and Digital Review.
|
||
|
||
Questions and comments can be sent to:
|
||
|
||
Brian Sietz at Fido 107/17
|
||
(609) 429-6630 300/1200/2400 baud
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
Fidonews Page 26 7 Jul 1986
|
||
|
||
|
||
Now available from Micro Consulting Associates!!
|
||
|
||
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|
||
software and other goodies, and that's "archived" size! When
|
||
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|
||
of software, from text editors to games to unprotection schemes
|
||
to communications programs, compilers, interpreters, etc... Over
|
||
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|
||
|
||
This collection is the result of more than 15 months of intensive
|
||
downloads from just about 150 or more BBS's and other sources,
|
||
all of which have been examined, indexed and archived for your
|
||
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|
||
to your software base without spending thousands of dollars? This
|
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is the answer!!!
|
||
|
||
To order the library, send $100 (personal or company check,
|
||
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|
||
|
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|
||
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|
||
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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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- ACS INTRCPT 720k format
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- Plain ol' files (add $50)
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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 27 7 Jul 1986
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SERVTECH
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by
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Rylos Technologies
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10213 Heron Pond Terrace
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Burke, Virginia 22015
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(c) 1986 Rylos Technologies
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o SERVTECH is designed specifically to work with your IBM PC/XT,
|
||
COMPAQ Deskpro, or COMPAQ Plus
|
||
|
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o SERVTECH will assist you in initial computer setup!
|
||
|
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- Guidelines for computer disassembly
|
||
|
||
- Pictorial Guide to switch settings (You tell us what you have
|
||
in your computer, we SHOW you how to set the switches)
|
||
|
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o SERVTECH deciphers error messages!
|
||
|
||
- You tell us the problem, we assist you in fixing it. Wherever
|
||
possible, we show you the exact componant causing the
|
||
problem!
|
||
|
||
- Through a series of questions and answers we will give
|
||
"probable cause" suggestions to try.
|
||
|
||
o SERVTECH is easy to use!
|
||
|
||
- Employees at General Motors say "SERVTECH is perfect for the
|
||
person who has to support their own XT, a must for every
|
||
software library."
|
||
|
||
To order SERVTECH, send a check or money order for $49.95 to:
|
||
|
||
RYLOS TECHNOLOGIES
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||
10213 Heron Pond Terrace
|
||
Burke, VA. 22015
|
||
|
||
********* SPECIAL NOTICE FOR FIDO USERS *********
|
||
|
||
Order a copy of SERVTECH today, mention you saw the ad on a FIDO
|
||
system or newsletter, and Rylos will donate $5.00 to the IFNA!
|
||
|
||
A demonstration version of SERVTECH is available on FIDO # 603,
|
||
accessible through the PC PURSUIT system. Call (703) 689-3561 to
|
||
download a copy.
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||
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Fidonews Page 28 7 Jul 1986
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=================================================================
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NOTICES
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||
=================================================================
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||
|
||
The Interrupt Stack
|
||
|
||
|
||
20 Jul 1986
|
||
St. Louis Area Sysops Meeting, to be held at Baker's Acre.
|
||
Net 100 sysops please contact Ben Baker at 100/76 for details
|
||
and directions.
|
||
|
||
14 Aug 1986
|
||
Start of the International FidoNet Conference, Colorado
|
||
Springs, Colorado. Contact George Wing at node 1/10 for
|
||
details. Get your reservations in NOW! We'll see you there!
|
||
|
||
24 Aug 1989
|
||
Voyager 2 passes Neptune.
|
||
|
||
|
||
If you have something which you would like to see on this
|
||
calendar, please send a message to FidoNet node 1/1.
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
Gruesome George by Bruce White, 109/612
|
||
+-------------------------------------------------+
|
||
|\ |
|
||
| \ |
|
||
| George!! That dumb dog In that case, |
|
||
| has taken over! Make woof! |
|
||
| your choice: Fido or me. / |
|
||
| _ / ____\__ |
|
||
| / \ / |_| \ |
|
||
| / oo|\ _____ |\ |
|
||
| (_\ |_) | _ | | |
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||
| _ / _\@'_ ______ | |_| | | |
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||
| // / | | __(______)_|_____|___ | |
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||
| (( / | (*) | ||-----------------|| | |
|
||
| \\/ \ |__U__| ______|| || | |
|
||
| \ /_ ||\\_ \ {} /||(c) '86 bw || | |
|
||
|(jm)\____)|_)\_) \__/ ||-----------------||__|__|
|
||
+-------------------------------------------------+
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
Computer Training Market Survey
|
||
|
||
As a reader of FidoNews you are either a microcomputer user or a
|
||
microcomputer hobbyist. Would you be interested in an opportuni-
|
||
ty to vacation in Hawaii, while expanding your ability to use
|
||
your microcomputer and possibly writing the cost off of your
|
||
taxes?
|
||
|
||
COMPUTER CRUISE HAWAII
|
||
Fidonews Page 29 7 Jul 1986
|
||
|
||
|
||
MICROCOMPUTER CRUISE VACATION
|
||
PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE EXPANSION - PROFESSIONAL ENHANCEMENT
|
||
|
||
$2500 TO $3500
|
||
|
||
INCLUDES
|
||
AIR TRANSPORTATION TO HAWAII
|
||
SEVEN LUXURIOUS DAYS CRUISING THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
|
||
ALL SHIPBOARD ACTIVITIES - SIX SUMPTUOUS MEALS EACH DAY
|
||
|
||
MICROCOMPUTER INSTRUCTION
|
||
HIGH HANDS ON COMPONENT - SCHEDULED AROUND CRUISE ACTIVITIES
|
||
EXCELLENT STUDENT INSTRUCTOR/COMPUTER RATIO - INTIMATE GROUP
|
||
CURRICULUM COVERS
|
||
EQUIPMENT BASICS - OPERATING SYSTEM BASICS - SYSTEM
|
||
REQUIREMENTS/ORGANIZATION - APPLICATION SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS/
|
||
ORGANIZATION - WORD PROCESSING - SPREADSHEETING DESIGN/MANAGEMENT
|
||
DATABASE BUILDING/MANAGEMENT - OTHER APPLICATIONS: GRAPHICS
|
||
COMMUNICATIONS
|
||
|
||
WILL BE A PROFESSIONALLY AND PERSONALLY EXPANDING EXPERIENCE
|
||
|
||
If the above has peaked your interest or you want to participate;
|
||
send a self addressed stamped envelope to:
|
||
|
||
Computer Cruise Hawaii
|
||
c/o Computer Station
|
||
1500 Kapiolani Blvd
|
||
Honolulu, Hawaii 96815
|
||
|
||
OR a message to FIDO 12/0 at (808) 942-2508 with your name,
|
||
address and FIDO net/node. We will provide further details and
|
||
discount information if you wish to include your spouse in the
|
||
trip only. Be sure to include your mailing address.
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
Changing of the Guard in Net 135
|
||
|
||
Metro-Fire Fido is now the Net Coordinator and Host for Net 135,
|
||
S-FLorida Net (previously Greater Miami Area). This change was
|
||
effective in Nodelist.164. Many systems are still using Nodelists
|
||
prior to 164 and are having difficulty sending traffic to Net
|
||
135. If you are not up on Nodelist.164 or later, please go out
|
||
and get one.
|
||
|
||
Metro-Fire Fido is 135/14 (135/0) at 305-596-8611, Miami_FL, if
|
||
you want to edit your Nodelist.BBS manually.
|
||
|
||
Thanks.
|
||
Christopher Baker, 135/14 (135/0)
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
|
||
Version 4 of Sched was released 6/27/86 and has been sent
|
||
Fidonews Page 30 7 Jul 1986
|
||
|
||
|
||
to several nodes across the country. It is available by
|
||
SEADog file request from node 137/19 or may be downloaded
|
||
from there (pre-registration required - send me your node
|
||
number and a password to use).
|
||
|
||
The only change from version 3 is the addition of dynamic
|
||
event setting. Events may be scheduled for the current
|
||
time and day or for offsets from the current time and
|
||
day.
|
||
|
||
Wes Cowley
|
||
Fido 137/19
|
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