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Volume 3, Number 27 14 July 1986
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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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Insider's Joke
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2. ARTICLES
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Silicon Mountain Fido Conference
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War in the Falklands
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Mail Order Problems
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Review of the MultiTech MultiModem 223
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Rovermsg update
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3. COLUMNS
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Hard Disk Usage and Management Tips, Part 3
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Computer Industry Spotlight
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Job Market Research Part II
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4. FOR SALE
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Entertainment Software for your PC!
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Public Domain Software Library Sale!!
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5. NOTICES
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The Interrupt Stack
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CARTOON: Gruesome George, by Bruce White
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Net 105 & 146 merged!!
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Fidonews Page 2 14 Jul 1986
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EDITORIAL
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Fidonews Page 3 14 Jul 1986
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ARTICLES
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Silicon Mountain Fido Conference
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Sponsored by
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The Colorado Springs PC Users Group
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and
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The International Fido Net Association
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to be held from
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August 14 to 17, 1986
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in Colorado Springs, Colorado
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The Silicon Mountain Fido Conference will take place from August
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14 through August 17, 1986, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, at the
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Colorado Springs Hilton Inn. Register as soon as possible for
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the conference, by mailing in the registration form and by making
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room reservations at the Hilton Inn. Registration may be made on
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line at any of the Fido Conference Coordinator BBS numbers:
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303-578-0860 (1/10 outgoing)
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303-596-6232 (1/10 Incoming)
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Information will also be available at the COSUG BBS:
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303-635-5468 (128/13)
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The registration form will be circulated in a couple of days.
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To register through FidoMail, please send a message to us at
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1/10, and follow up by sending a hard copy of the registration
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form by mail or send a file with the extension ".REG". Please
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put a variation of your name on the file and tell us the name you
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have given your registration form in your message. If we get
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multiple files with the same name, it could a problem for us.
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Please follow up by making a guaranteed reservation at the Hilton
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Inn. To guarantee your room for late arrival, the Hilton
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requires a credit card number (Master Card, Visa, American
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Express, Carte Blanche, Diners Club and Discover are accepted) or
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a deposit. Without a guarantee, they will not hold it past
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6:00 PM of the arrival date. When you call in your reservation,
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be sure to tell the person taking it that you are with the
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"Silicon Mountain Fido Conference" or the "Fido Conference" or
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"International Fido Sysops" to be sure that your reservation is
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at the group rate.
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The room rates are as follows:
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Single or Double (one bed or two) $60.00 per night
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Triple occupancy $75.00 per night
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Quad occupancy $90.00 per night
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Parlor $120.00 per night
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Fidonews Page 4 14 Jul 1986
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Because the Hilton does not care how you share your accomo-
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dations, some of you may wish to double up and split the room
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charges. You may be able to find someone in your local net who
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also wishes to share. Or send a message around FidoNet for
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someone to share with.
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The address and telephone number of the Hilton Inn is:
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505 Popes Bluff Trail
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Colorado Springs, CO.
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303-598-7656
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The Hilton Inn is located at Exit 146 (Garden of the Gods Road)
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off of I-25 in northern Colorado Springs.
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Other motels in the immediate vicinity (within walking distance)
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include "Howard Johnson's", "Ramada Inn", and "Econolodge."
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Within a short driving distance, there are many other motels,
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which may be cheaper than these. Because we are getting a
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special rate, you cannot expect to save much by staying at a
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place other than the Hilton, unless you have your own trans-
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portation.
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To be sure that a room is reserved for you, we need a message
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from you that you are coming as soon as possible. A large block
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of rooms has been reserved for us, but unless we have your
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reservation by August 1 at the latest, we can not guarantee you a
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room at the conference rate. Because it is the height of the
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tourist season, you will have to compete with the tourists for a
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motel room. I have to give the Hilton an estimate of the number
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of rooms we need by July 1, and a room list is due August 1 at
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the latest. Although you can probably still find lodging after
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August 1, it may not be at the Hilton.
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The deadline for reservations for the banquets and other group
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meals is 48 hours in advance. All parties and receptions will be
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cash bar.
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We have set a conference fee of $60.00 for the full conference.
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If you wish to attend Saturday only, the conference fee would be
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$30.00. The rate for full time students is $35.00 and $20.00,
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respectively. Registration after August 1 will be an additional
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$10.00. In addition you will want to attend the banquet on
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Friday night, which will be an additional $15.00 per plate, and
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the luncheon on Saturday, which will be $7.50 per plate. The
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cost of the Saturday dinner at the Flying W Ranch will be
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announced later. It will include transportation by bus to and
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from the Hilton Inn.
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We are working on a special trip up Pikes Peak by cog wheel
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railway at a cost to be announced later. The stated meal prices
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include taxes and service charges. The amount of the conference
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fee is based on what is needed to recover the conference
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expenses. In addition we hope you will see fit to send a
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voluntary donation to IFNA, which is cosponsoring the conference
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and which will be the primary beneficiary of the conference.
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Fidonews Page 5 14 Jul 1986
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The address to send your registrations to is:
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Silicon Mountain Fido Conference
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Attn: George Wing
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507 Mining Exchange Building
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8 South Nevada Avenue
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Colorado Springs, CO 80903
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Voice: 303-635-4716 (weekdays)
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FidoNet 1/10
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Please pay your conference fees by check or money order to
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"Silicon Mountain Fido Conference." By July we will be able to
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accept MasterCard and Visa over the phone. Please do not send
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credit card numbers through FidoMail.
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We are trying to work out having computers with modems and phone
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lines available for you to call your board and check to see what
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E.T. did to you when he used your board to phone home while you
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were in Colorado Springs. Suggestions on how to handle the
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billing for telephone calls are needed.
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Please check for the best deals on air fare. We have a
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conference discount arranged through Continental Air Lines, which
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feeds through Denver. Jack Armit of Globe Travel in Colorado
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Springs (303-473-4151) can help you with travel arrangements.
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Call him if you are flying on Continental. Call him anyway.
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Other carriers feed direct into Colorado Springs without
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requiring a plane change in Denver as does Continental in many
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cases. Fares to Denver are about the same as to Colorado. Check
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it out and let me know what kind of deals you are getting, so I
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can pass the information on. The sooner you make your
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reservation, the better the deal you will get.
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We are looking for persons to help with the discussions of
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DoubleDOS, EchoMail, and various other topics. Suggestions are
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welcome. We thank those persons who have already volunteered
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their time. Ken Kaplan will have the final say on panel members
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and speakers. Send us a message at 1/10 with a copy to Ken 1/0.
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See you in Colorado Springs in August!
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George Wing, Coordinator
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Silicon Mountain Fido Conference Coordinator
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1/10
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Ken Kaplan and Ben Baker
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The International FidoNet Administrators
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1/0
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Fidonews Page 6 14 Jul 1986
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Charles Grisamore
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Memphis Tennessee
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Fido 123/7
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War in the Falklands
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While scanning the files on a long distance board I
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sometimes call, I spotted a program called FALKLANDS.BAS. After
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downloading, I found it was a sophisticated war game involving
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ship and troop deployment as well as air cover and even ship
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based artillery. The only problem was that there weren't any
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instructions!
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The commands are pretty obvious (they are for the most part
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always visible on the screen and make extensive use of the
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function keys) however when entering ship and troop movements you
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must enter the sector number to move into. Without some sort of
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sector map it's impossible to ascertain your position relative to
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the Falklands or anything else. Has anybody got a DOC file for
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this program?
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Another issue; is this program user supported? The startup
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screen identifies it as "War in the Falklands (C) 1983 by Robert
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Alter version 1.5". The copyright notice doesn't by itself mean
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much. Most programmers I know put such a message on EVERY
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program. However the absence of a Freeware/User supported
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message makes me wonder about this program. I've seen it on a
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number of bulletin boards around the country (but then so are a
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LOT of pirated programs).
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I'd like to know something about this particular game. I
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either need the instructions or that it's pirated and I need to
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get rid of it. Please answer via FidoMail to node 123/7.
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Fidonews Page 7 14 Jul 1986
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David Kaplan, 142/0
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Mail Order Problems
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I would like to advise all FidoNews readers of a complaint that I
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have registered with the Illinois Department of Consumer
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Protection, Office of the Attorney General, against the PC
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Network, of 320 West Ohio St., Chicago, Il. 60610.
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On April 22, 1986, I ordered a copy of R:Base 5000, in order to
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take advantage of Microrim's 2 for 1 sale if registered by June
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30, 1986. My package did not arrive until May 14, and then it was
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used, with handwritten notes in the box, and the diskette seal
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broken.
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I immediately returned the merchandise for a "priority"
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replacement, which did not arrive until June 23.
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They have refused several requests to reimburse me telephone and
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return postage costs of $14.39 for the first package.
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With Microrim's deadline for registration at hand I cannot return
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my used copy of R:Base, and thus am forced to retain used
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merchandise, as well as the additional telephone and return
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postage costs.
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I most certainly will not do business with them in the future.
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Fidonews Page 8 14 Jul 1986
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Tim Rand, 100/255
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MultiTech MultiModem 223
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Review
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I have been running my Fido (AmCross Central - 100/255) off of a
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MultiTech MultiModem 224 for about the last month. This modem is
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a 300/1200/2400 baud device that emulates the Hayes 1200 baud
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modem with 2400 baud extensions.
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Here are the pertinent setup items for Fido use:
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1. If you run out of a PBX or use a long-distance service and
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need to dial with pause codes, open the cover and set switch
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2-3 to UP. This sets Wait-for-dial-tone dialing. This may be
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important to those of you who dial out through MCI, Sprint or
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other non-1-plus type services. Replace the cover.
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2. Set the switches on switch 1 as viewed through the bottom of
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the modem (really nice feature - no cover to remove for most
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users) to:
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1-1 UP DTR Normal
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1-2 UP Verbose (word) responses **
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1-3 DOWN Enable command responses
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1-4 UP Enable command character echo **
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1-5 DOWN Disable auto answer **
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1-6 UP Carrier Detect and Data Set Ready normal
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1-7 UP RJ11 (if running in an office set DOWN)
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1-8 DOWN Enable command mode
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** Fido overides these items anyway. I set them this
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way so my modem doesn't get answered when Fido is not
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up! and so things work better for most comm programs.
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3. Fido takes care of the rest except for one thing. Create
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yourself a FIDOMDM.BBS file with this one command in it:
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AT&Q1
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This command tells the MultiModem to select the Hayes 2400
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response codes. This is important because Fido doesn't know
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how to handle the 6 or "DIAL TONE" response that the 224
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usually gives.
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4. Your RUNBBS.BAT command to run Fido should not specify any
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modem type (ie default to 1/J). I guess others might work (eg
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a 5/J or 11/J) but why screw with it.
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The MultiModem supports a command mode setting to change the
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option set in switch #2-3 above. That is the ATB command. One
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item that is NOT documented in the manual is that the newer Hayes
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command ATX4 which sets both Wait-for-dial-tone and extended
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results IS supported and does work. The modem also supports the
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Fidonews Page 9 14 Jul 1986
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"W" in the ATD dial command so you can do an ATDT 9W999-9999.
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This also is not documented.
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At $389 this modem is an excellent value. The modem lists for
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more, but most dealers are selling it for about $400. If you
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have trouble getting it for less than $400, send me a FidoNet
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message and I'll be glad to provide the name of the dealer that I
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use. It has front panel switches to use a desk phone to dial out
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or manual answer at either 300/1200/2400, the speaker has a pot
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(screwdriver adjust-BOOOH) to set the volume, and it has the
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right amount of lights on the front. The modem has been rock
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steady and does what it should. I have run with a number of
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different comm programs in addition to Fido and had no problem at
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all.
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The modem has a number of neat features that are NOT Hayes
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compatible. The first of these is the ability to store 9 phone
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numbers and redial them with a short-hand dial command ATD Nx,
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which would dial number x in the list. ATL lists them. This IS
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in conflict with the newer Hayes 1200s which use ATL for loudness
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of the speaker. ATL5 is a neat command. It lists the current
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settings of the E, Q, V, and some of the & commands. This is
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nice to see what a program does when it sets modem parameters.
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The last real feature of this modem is the A: command. This
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command is a "Demon Dialer" type command that will re-dial until
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a connect.
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The modem is built as is typical for other modems in this class,
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that is with an external transformer pack-type three prong plug,
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and a fairly lightweight plastic case. This model has a large
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heat-sink on the bottom that gets moderately warm, but in general
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the box runs very cool. One item of note is that option switches
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peek through the bottom of the case. This is a very nice
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convenience item, because it makes it very easy to check or
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change the switches. I do wish it had the AA (autoanswer) light
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on the front that my Hayes 1200 has, but that is really not a big
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deal.
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As to support, I did call MultiTech about the above noted
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documentation omissions, and they responded that they were sorry.
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These features had been added after the doc was printed. I also
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had a problem with infant mortality on one of the two units I
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bought. A new one was back to me within the week including
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shipping time. We also have a MultiTech 1200 modem which has
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provided us with excellent service and is really very Hayes
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compatible. Very nice service. The folks on the phone were
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knowledgeable and courteous. I would recommend a MultiTech to
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anyone.
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Fidonews Page 10 14 Jul 1986
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ROVERMSG Update
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by
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Bob Hartman
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Sysop Fido 132/101
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For those of you that have been waiting a long time for the next
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release of ROVERMSG, your wait is over! I have just released
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revision 2.17 of ROVERMSG. This new version has the following
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nasty little bugs fixed:
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1. Using Rovermsg on a Rainbow with the '-c 2' switch really
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works now.
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2. A person with SYSOP privilege does not have to have credit to
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send FidoNet mail.
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3. A change made in SEAdog caused Rovermsg to not print the first
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character following a soft carriage return. This is now
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fixed.
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This version also does not create its own ROVERLST.SYS file
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unless there is not a NODELIST.SYS file of revision 5 (which I
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believe is only in Fido 11w, but it might be in 11v also). This
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change will save approximately 100K in disk space.
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Finally, the most important announcement of all -SOURCE CODE is
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available! If you register your copy of Rovermsg for $15, you
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are entitled to free FidoNet support (answering questions, etc.).
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For $25 additional (total of $40), I will send you all of the
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source code for Rovermsg. The code is written for the MANX Aztec
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C compiler, but if you have another compiler the changes should
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not be too bad to make.
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As always, the latest version of Rovermsg can be downloaded from
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Fido 132/101. I am now running SEAdog, so if you want to request
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it via SEAdog mail, let me know and I will set you up to have the
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file held for you to poll.
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Bob Hartman
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Sysop Fido 132/101
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The UN*X Gateway
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and Home of Rovermsg
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Fidonews Page 11 14 Jul 1986
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COLUMNS
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Taking Advantage of Your PC's Hard Disk:
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Part III, CONFIG.SYS and the Virtual Disk
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Barry Gordon
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New York Personal Computer, Inc.
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There are some simple things you can do to enhance the
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performance of your hard drive. Creating a CONFIG.SYS file and a
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virtual disk can give you added power and speed in working on
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your PC by reconfiguring your operating system and Random Access
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Memory (RAM).
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The CONFIG.SYS File
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Another file that is useful in the root directory is the
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CONFIG.SYS file. It's a collection of miscellany to modify the
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way the PC system works. You may want to try a CONFIG.SYS file
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consisting of three lines:
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BREAK=ON
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FILES=16
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BUFFERS=8
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The BREAK command allows you to interrupt the system more easily
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should you wish to terminate the execution of a program.
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The FILES command allows DOS to juggle more than the default of
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eight active files simultaneously. This is important, because
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DOS loads five files of its own, leaving you with only three.
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Sixteen should give you enough to handle most any situation.
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The BUFFERS command can speed up certain kinds of disk
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operations. You may want to try as many as 16 or even 32 for a
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20MB hard disk.
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The Virtual Disk
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A large internal RAM not only allows manipulation of larger files
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when necessary, but gives the user access to the speed of
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internal memory for processing data. Just as the hard disk
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increases computing speed over the diskette drive, so internal
|
||
memory, if utilized, increases computing speed over the hard
|
||
drive. To tap the speed and power of the internal memory, you
|
||
might consider setting up a virtual disk. However, to attempt to
|
||
set up a virtual disk, you should have more than 256KB of memory
|
||
in your PC, preferably, 512KB or larger.
|
||
|
||
The virtual disk is a portion of RAM set aside to simulate a
|
||
disk. The virtual disk is referred to by the drive designation
|
||
letter following that of the system's last hard disk. Assuming a
|
||
single hard disk C:, our virtual disk becomes D:. The virtual
|
||
disk is created at startup by a program such as the VDISK command
|
||
that comes with DOS 3.0., working together with a command you
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||
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|
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|
||
|
||
save in your CONFIG.SYS file.
|
||
|
||
With 512KB of RAM, a reasonable virtual disk size to try is 64KB.
|
||
If you have a 640KB system, you may want to set up a virtual disk
|
||
of 192KB. I suggest leaving about 448KB of available, active RAM
|
||
to have ample memory for DOS to do its work.
|
||
|
||
A virtual disk of even 64KB can do wonders. It can also be
|
||
effectively larger by specifying the smallest possible sector
|
||
size -- e.g., 128 bytes -- for the greatest possible data packing
|
||
density. Assuming VDISK.COM and 640KB of RAM, the virtual disk
|
||
specification in your CONFIG.SYS might look like this:
|
||
|
||
DEVICE=C:\VDISK
|
||
|
||
The entire CONFIG.SYS file would look like this:
|
||
|
||
BREAK=ON
|
||
FILES=16
|
||
BUFFERS=8
|
||
DEVICE=C:\VDISK.SYS 192 128 64
|
||
|
||
The SETPATH.BAT and AUTOEXEC.BAT Files Revised
|
||
|
||
What do you do with this virtual disk D: now that it is set up?
|
||
First, you can begin to take full advantage of your virtual
|
||
disk's speed by adding a statement to AUTOEXEC.BAT to transfer
|
||
the sub-directory of your most-used files to the virtual disk D:.
|
||
|
||
Your AUTOEXEC.BAT file now contains the following:
|
||
|
||
DATE
|
||
TIME
|
||
PROMPT $P$G
|
||
COPY \anyname1\*.* D:
|
||
D:SETPATH
|
||
|
||
Note that the SETPATH command must remain the last one in the
|
||
file. Next, modify the PATH command (in SETPATH.BAT) to PATH
|
||
D:\;C:\anyname2;C:\any3;C:\any4 replacing the c:\anyname1 you
|
||
formerly had in SETPATH.BAT with the root directory of your
|
||
virtual drive D:\. (Again, note that you specify complete paths,
|
||
including all drive designations, to keep the command totally
|
||
independent of what the default drive might happen to be.)
|
||
|
||
Finally, move the SETPATH.BAT file out of the root directory and
|
||
into the \anyname1 directory for automatic transfer to D:. This
|
||
allows you to execute the SETPATH command from any directory,
|
||
entering it as simply SETPATH or D:SETPATH if necessary.
|
||
|
||
The root directory on your hard drive now contains the following
|
||
files:
|
||
|
||
<IBMBIO.COM>
|
||
<IBMDOS.COM>
|
||
COMMAND.COM
|
||
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|
||
|
||
|
||
AUTOEXEC.BAT
|
||
Sub-directory Names
|
||
CONFIG.SYS
|
||
VDISK.COM (or equivalent)
|
||
|
||
Tips Concerning The Virtual Drive
|
||
|
||
Now that your PC has the virtual disk D:, you will want to keep
|
||
only your most-used files in your C:\anyname1 directory. I would
|
||
suggest you put in some DOS external command files, plus regulars
|
||
like BASIC.COM, or perhaps a few of your personal favorites, such
|
||
as PE.EXE or your word processing program. Depending on the size
|
||
of your virtual disk, you might even wish to add some non-
|
||
executable, but nonetheless frequently used, files that you would
|
||
like to have accessible from any sub-directory.
|
||
|
||
All of these would presumably reside permanently in your
|
||
C:\anyname1 directory so that they transfer automatically to D:
|
||
at system startup. The one thing you must not forget is that
|
||
your virtual disk D: actually resides in RAM and not on a real
|
||
disk drive. I suggest you do not store anything in your virtual
|
||
drive that is not stored in a file on your hard disk or on a
|
||
diskette, because whenever you turn your PC off or whenever the
|
||
power fails, everything in your virtual disk is cleared.
|
||
|
||
Summary
|
||
|
||
A brief summary of what the various files might look like is
|
||
given below:
|
||
|
||
The Root Directory
|
||
|
||
<IBMBIO.COM>
|
||
<IBMDOS.COM>
|
||
COMMAND.COM
|
||
AUTOEXEC.BAT
|
||
Sub-directory Names
|
||
CONFIG.SYS
|
||
VDISK.COM (or equivalent)
|
||
|
||
CONFIG.SYS File
|
||
|
||
BREAK=ON
|
||
FILES=16
|
||
BUFFERS=8
|
||
DEVICE=C:\VDISK.SYS 192 128 64
|
||
|
||
The numercial values in the DEVICE command will vary depending on
|
||
the size you wish your virtual disk to be.
|
||
|
||
AUTOEXEC.BAT File
|
||
|
||
DATE
|
||
TIME
|
||
COPY C:\anyname 1\*.* D:
|
||
PROMPT $P$G
|
||
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|
||
|
||
|
||
D:SETPATH
|
||
|
||
The D: shown above presumes that you don't have a second hard
|
||
disk attached to your PC. With two hard disks, the virtual disk
|
||
would be E:.
|
||
|
||
SETPATH.BAT File
|
||
|
||
PATH D:\;C:\any1;C:\any2\;C:any3;...
|
||
|
||
That's it. My experience shows that a hard disk with large
|
||
internal RAM, set up more or less as recommended here, can be a
|
||
real pleasure to operate.
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
Fidonews Page 15 14 Jul 1986
|
||
|
||
|
||
William/Eunhee Hunter
|
||
Fido 109/626
|
||
|
||
Computer Industry Spotlight on:
|
||
|
||
AUTO-TROL TECHNOLOGY CORP. -- Organized in 1962, Auto-Trol
|
||
manufactures and integrates CAD/CAM computer equipment. Openings
|
||
exist in engineering, sales, data processing, and finance. New
|
||
employees undergo classroom instruction, as well as on-the-job
|
||
training. Employees can also take advantage of special skills
|
||
courses.
|
||
|
||
Contact: Jim Wilkes, Director, Human Resources, Auto-Trol
|
||
Technology Corp., 12500 N. Washington, Denver, CO 80233.
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
Fidonews Page 16 14 Jul 1986
|
||
|
||
|
||
William/Eunhee Hunter
|
||
Fido 109/626
|
||
|
||
THE FIRST STEP -- CHOOSING AN INDUSTRY
|
||
|
||
|
||
As your no doubt aware -- particularly if you're an
|
||
individual who has already been employed several years or more --
|
||
the U.S. job market is really many job markets, in fact thousands
|
||
of them. But for purposes of job hunting, it makes sense to
|
||
think of "job market" and "industry" as roughly synonymous.
|
||
Given this definition, your initial problem is to decide which
|
||
industry (i.e., job market) best suits your qualifications and
|
||
needs. Obviously, having a degree in, say, business
|
||
administration or a computer specialization, qualifies you for
|
||
positions in many industries -- and yet, your work experience,
|
||
career path, and life style will depend greatly on which industry
|
||
you accept employment with, and hence become part of. An
|
||
accounting position in the telephone industry, for example, will
|
||
probably lead you in a much different direction than one in the
|
||
insurance industry, consulting, or federal government. Thus you
|
||
should consider that, in accepting a job, you're also accepting,
|
||
and becoming part of an industry. The chances are good that
|
||
you'll remain with that industry in come capacity throughout your
|
||
working life.
|
||
|
||
Even so, are you really familiar with the many industries
|
||
which compromise the U.S. economy? Are you familiar with the
|
||
many occupations within those industries which your education or
|
||
experience may qualify you for? If not -- as is the case with
|
||
most people -- then your job hunting effort must start with
|
||
INDUSTRY RESEARCH. You need to gain a reasonably clear
|
||
perspective on contemporary events and conditions in each of the
|
||
industries which may hold opportunities for you. Without this
|
||
basic understanding, you simply have no idea where to focus your
|
||
job hunting effort.
|
||
|
||
The following reference materials (among others) will help
|
||
you locate current articles and books on any industry you care to
|
||
research:
|
||
|
||
ACCESS: THE SUPPLEMENTARY GUIDE TO PERIODICALS. Syracuse,
|
||
New York: Gaylord Bros.,Inc., 1975 to date.
|
||
|
||
READERS GUIDE TO PERIODICAL LITERATURE. New York: The H. W.
|
||
Wilson Co., 1905 to date.
|
||
|
||
BUSINESS PERIODICALS INDEX. New York: The H. W. Wilson Co.,
|
||
1958 to date.
|
||
|
||
PUBLIC AFFAIRS INFORMATION SERVICE BULLETIN. New York
|
||
Public Affairs Information Service. 1915 to date.
|
||
|
||
GUIDE TO AMERICAN DIRECTORIES. Detroit, Michigan: Gale
|
||
Research Company. (Note: This is the most comprehensive
|
||
key to the existence of directories covering business,
|
||
Fidonews Page 17 14 Jul 1986
|
||
|
||
|
||
industrial, professional, and commercial fields. It
|
||
will lead you to an unbelievable range of indispensible
|
||
information.)
|
||
|
||
Winchell, Constance, M., GUIDE TO REFERENCE BOOKS. Chicago:
|
||
American Library Association. (Note: When you don't
|
||
know where to look or have exhausted other resources,
|
||
"Winchell" is the place to try.)
|
||
|
||
Next article will present THE NEXT STEP - RESEARCHING
|
||
SELECTED COMPANIES.
|
||
|
||
Distributed via FidoNet BBS by NOVA_WEG Fido 109/626, W.E.G.
|
||
Systems, P.O. Box 5072, Springfield, VA 22150. Permission is
|
||
hereby given to reprint the contents of this article providing
|
||
the contents remain unchanged.
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
Fidonews Page 18 14 Jul 1986
|
||
|
||
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
FOR SALE
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
Professional quality games include PASCAL source! From the
|
||
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
|
||
device driver for the IBM-PC, or built into the firmware on
|
||
the DEC Rainbow. Only $19.95 each or $39.95 for both
|
||
exciting games! Please specify version and disk format.
|
||
These games have been written in standard TURBO-PASCAL and
|
||
run on the IBM-PC, DEC Rainbow 100 (MSDOS and CPM), CPM/80,
|
||
CPM/86, and PDP-11. Other disk formats are available, but
|
||
minor customization may be required.
|
||
|
||
BSS Software
|
||
P.O. Box 3827
|
||
Cherry Hill, NJ 08034
|
||
|
||
|
||
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 19 14 Jul 1986
|
||
|
||
|
||
Now available from Micro Consulting Associates!!
|
||
|
||
Public Domain collection - 550+ "ARC" archives - 20+ megs of
|
||
software and other goodies, and that's "archived" size! When
|
||
unpacked, you get approximately 28 megabytes worth of all kinds
|
||
of software, from text editors to games to unprotection schemes
|
||
to communications programs, compilers, interpreters, etc... Over
|
||
55 DS/DD diskettes!!
|
||
|
||
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
|
||
convenience. Starting a Bulletin Board System? Want to add on
|
||
to your software base without spending thousands of dollars? This
|
||
is the answer!!!
|
||
|
||
To order the library, send $100 (personal or company check,
|
||
postal money order or company purchase order) to:
|
||
|
||
Micro Consulting Associates, Fido 103/511
|
||
Post Office Box 4296
|
||
200-1/2 E. Balboa Boulevard
|
||
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|
||
|
||
Please allow 3 weeks for delivery of your order.
|
||
|
||
Note: No profit is made from the sale of the Public Domain
|
||
software in this collection. The price is applied entirely to
|
||
the cost of downloading the software over the phone lines,
|
||
running a BBS to receive file submissions, and inspecting,
|
||
cataloguing, archiving and maintaining the files. Obtaining this
|
||
software yourself through the use of a computer with a modem
|
||
using commercial phone access would cost you much more than what
|
||
we charge for the service...
|
||
|
||
Please specify what type of format you would like the disks to be
|
||
prepared on. The following choices are available:
|
||
- IBM PC-DOS Backup utility
|
||
- Zenith MS-DOS 2.11 Backup Utility
|
||
- DSBackup
|
||
- Fastback
|
||
- ACS INTRCPT 720k format
|
||
- Plain ol' files (add $50)
|
||
|
||
Add $30 if you want the library on 1.2 meg AT disks (more
|
||
expensive disks). There are no shipping or handling charges.
|
||
California residents add 6% tax.
|
||
|
||
For each sale, $10 will go to the FidoNet Administrators.
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
Fidonews Page 20 14 Jul 1986
|
||
|
||
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
NOTICES
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
|
||
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
|
||
+-------------------------------------------------+
|
||
| Super--with this new |
|
||
| multitasking program |
|
||
| the computer can do |
|
||
|\ three things at once! |
|
||
| \ / |
|
||
| Very nice, dear. Now / ____\__ |
|
||
| how about your doing / |_| \ |
|
||
| some multitasking _____ |\ |
|
||
| around the house. | _ | | |
|
||
| ______ | |_| | | |
|
||
| __(______)_|_____|___ | |
|
||
| ||-----------------|| | |
|
||
| ______ || || | |
|
||
| \ {} / || || | |
|
||
|(c) 1986 bw \__/ ||-----------------||__|__|
|
||
+-------------------------------------------------+
|
||
|
||
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
Justin Norman
|
||
Northwest Super Fido (#105/2)
|
||
Formerly 146/0,1
|
||
|
||
For quite a while now many people have been talking about
|
||
merging networks 105 (Portland area) and 146 (LNA Net) into one.
|
||
So at the local area system operators meeting held last week we
|
||
went ahead and combined. Not a large task indeed, in fact, the
|
||
whole process took about 3 minutes from the time of the decision
|
||
Fidonews Page 21 14 Jul 1986
|
||
|
||
|
||
to the assignment of new node numbers. But here is what's new:
|
||
|
||
New Number Board Name Old Number
|
||
------------ ------------------------- ------------
|
||
105/2 Northwest Super Fido 146/0,1
|
||
105/3 Dim Sum 146/5
|
||
105/9 S.I.M. NoChange (MO:) 146/6
|
||
-- Engineers 1 (Down) 146/2
|
||
105/098 Private 146/098
|
||
105/099 Private 146/099
|
||
|
||
The Engineers 1 was taken down for reconstruction. This
|
||
shouldn't be too confusing at all. The changes listed here will
|
||
be effective immediatly.
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
|