PROTOCOL: ALT COMPRESSION: NONE CONNECT 2400/ARQ CBBS(R) 4.0.3b 05/23/93 09:39:36 Y/N: want CBBS "1st time user" info?^U ?^U ?^U ?n;ward;christensen;odraw;;fullc;piss Logging name to disk... You are caller 229785; next msg =46269; 371 active msgs. Prev. call 05/20/93 @ 22:27, next msg was 46262 Recording logon for next time. Use FULL? to check assignments ?^U ?xxxxx "Mine" command checking for msgs TO you, ^K to >Function:?dir c:log;dir c:killed;dir summary;type-20 log,ward c;or;*;short LOG. 10 KILLED. 42 SUMMARY. 25 05/20/93,22:28:03,229760,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, E#46262, E#46263, E#46264,21 05/20/93,22:54:33,229761,2,BILL MATTSON,,2 05/21/93,01:27:00,229762,2,NORBERT DEMBINSKI,Chicago/ Il, E#46265,12 05/21/93,01:39:50,229763,2,ROY LIPSCOMB,,1 05/21/93,07:15:44,229764,2,DAVID HAGEN,,3 05/21/93,15:59:55,229765,2,ANDY SHAPIRO,, E#46266,12 05/21/93,20:54:28,229766,2,BERNARD GOLDLUST,,6 05/21/93,21:53:09,229767,2,MURRAY ARNOW,,3 05/21/93,23:08:00,229768,2,PHIL SCHUMAN,,1 05/21/93,23:56:37,229769,2,DAVID JOHNSON,,8 05/22/93,01:19:46,229770,2,NORB DEMBINSKI,,1 05/22/93,08:49:30,229771,2,ROY LIPSCOMB,, E#46267,3 05/22/93,08:56:30,229772,2,RICH FOSTER,,2 05/22/93,15:42:18,229773,2,ANDY SHAPIRO,,3 05/22/93,21:02:12,229774,2,MURRAY ARNOW,,3 05/22/93,21:25:21,229775,2,MURRAY ARNOW,,1 05/22/93,21:35:46,229776,2,MURRAY ARNOW,, 05/22/93,21:44:27,229777,2,MURRAY ARNOW,,0 05/22/93,22:29:41,229778,2,BILL MATTSON,, E#46268,6 05/22/93,23:17:40,229779,2,DAVE KAMIDE,,3 05/23/93,05:40:09,229780,2,NORB DEMBINSKI,,1 05/23/93,07:14:46,229781,2,MURRAY ARNOW,,1 05/23/93,08:47:51,229782,2,MURRAY ARNOW,,1 05/23/93,08:52:50,229783,2,MURRAY ARNOW,,1 05/23/93,09:22:23,229784,2,RON KRITZMAN,,5 05/23/93,09:39:40,229785,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, 46262 05/20/93 WARD CHRISTENSEN => ANDY SHAPIRO: "R/DBIV?" 46263 05/20/93 WARD CHRISTENSEN => PAUL CHARTRAW: "R/THE CBBSLIST" 46264 05/20/93 WARD CHRISTENSEN => NORB DEMBINSKI: "R/PS/2 PARTS FOR SALE" 46265 05/21/93 NORBERT DEMBINSKI => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "R/PS/2 PARTS FOR SALE" 46266 05/21/93 ANDY SHAPIRO => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "R/DBIV?" 46267 05/22/93 ROY LIPSCOMB => ALL: "VOICE ON THE INTERNET" 46268 05/22/93 BILL MATTSON => EDWARD MARSH: "FRIMWARE" - End of summary - Retrieving flagged msgs: C skips, K aborts. Msg 46262 is 24 line(s) on 05/20/93 from WARD CHRISTENSEN to ANDY SHAPIRO re: R/DBIV? Heh, I did the same thing - made my own checkbook manager. I wrote mine in FoxBase (i.e. "xBase") same as you. I just had a BLAST adding rampant feature-itis to it, designing nice screens, etc. I like my check recon- ciliation a lot - you just hit 'r', and it pops up each un-reconciled check or deposit, and says "This one Y/N/Quit" and you go y y y y y n y n y q and what it does it zero the balance each time, then you do a "T" function that runs a total - it scans from the oldest check for a zero balance, and starts computing the balance from that point. I base mine on a check number (0 for deposit or cash card withdrawal), date, "to", and two very important flags: a "deposit" flag, and a "cleared" flag. I also had fun doing strange things like "Z", which goes to the bottom of the file, then backs up about 12 records, then stacks the keypresses for "down down down down", then goes into browse. The reason I do this, is that, like editors, I like my "active" line to be near the top of the screen, but not THE top line of the screen. I have a display function that scrolls from the BOTTOM UP, and changes colors - 4 colors, for the 4 combos of deposits vs checks, and cleared vs not. One day a friend was over, and asked what my electric bill was like. I did an extract for "comm ed", popped it into Quattro Pro, and showed a graph (heh). I THINK Fox Pro might have some graphics built in. I bought it but never installed it. I talked work into buying the run-time library. Owell, hope you find a dBase IV compiler! Msg 46263 is 19 line(s) on 05/20/93 from WARD CHRISTENSEN to PAUL CHARTRAW re: R/THE CBBSLIST Hmmm, I did furrow my brow when I saw the name "CBBS" - it IS the name of THIS system, AND an officially registered name, at that. Other than that we carried it as a service for a while (difficult, since we have no file xfer and I had to mash it into some messages with an editor), there was no tie-in to CBBS. Hmmm again. I granted the use of its name? Hmmm, I guess like the guy who said I promised him a million dollars yesterday, you could BOTH be right, I DO have a bad memory, but this DOES come as a complete surprise to me. (Then again, one day I asked Chuck Forsberg where he came up with the idea of the name "Ymodem". He said "You suggested it". Embarassed, I went through my old Compuserve captured messages, and found the one I SENT HIM suggesting the name, because "YAM" was his commo program, and "Y" was one more than "X", etc) CBBSLIST seems as inappropriate (people might come here asking about it- and do ask "in general" about BBS Lists) just as being the Stillwaters BBS list they went to him and he wants it stopped. Gee, credit where due: Call it the Hideaway Chicago Area BBS list, and in the front of it credit Stilwaters/Colby for all the effort perhaps. CBBS in the name just seems confusing and IS misleading. Msg 46264 is 06 line(s) on 05/20/93 from WARD CHRISTENSEN to NORB DEMBINSKI re: R/PS/2 PARTS FOR SALE Hey, Norb, does this mean you got the auto-upload working? Or just gave up and typed it all in? heh. Good luck selling the stuff! Dunno where to go for the best shot at selling it.Limited market, mostly corporate, some hobbyists. To anyone looking over "our shoulder" I've known Norb for a long time, you can be comfortable dealing with him. Msg 46265 is 10 line(s) on 05/21/93 from NORBERT DEMBINSKI to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: R/PS/2 PARTS FOR SALE Ward: I wish that I did get in to upload but I couldn't get it to work yet. I did it the hard way character by character. Thankx for the promo I have had some replys to my offers. One reply was the guy was going to buy most of the equipment that I had for the PS/2. I am waiting for him to come back and say yeas or no. I will just keep on trying to sell the equipment. Norb Dembinski Msg 46266 is 24 line(s) on 05/21/93 from ANDY SHAPIRO to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: R/DBIV? Sounds like fun! Mine's not that fancy, but it works. The main thing was that we're here in DC, writing checks for students 20 at a time, and the commercial version I bought had me inputting the date and check # for each and every one. The one I wrote auto-increments the check # (you can still change it) and carries the date. So when I start it up, if the last entry was a check, I have the appropriate number, plus the date of the last transaction. Nothing really fancy, though - I wanted to take a UNIX-like approach and keep it small. My one fancy move was to use BROWSE on to clear the checks (used a logical field) and then I have dBXL pump the data out to a DIF file and start SuperCalc4, which reads a macro, pulls in the DIF, and figures running and cleared balances. This would limit me to small files, except that dBXL can swap itself out of memory, which leaves me about 430K of workspace once SC4 loads. My one fancy thing was gonna be making the check/withdrawal fields red and others green, but I decided that was just too much. Total size of everything (excluding the .DBF file) is just 4K. I also learned a little about disk space preservation - I put all the subr{utines in a PROCEDURE file. I thought the allocation unit problem was CP/M only, but that saved me around 18K of disk space right there. Hmmm. I wonder if I can combine the main .PRG and the procedure file? I'll have to check. Msg 46267 is 17 line(s) on 05/22/93 from ROY LIPSCOMB to ALL re: VOICE ON THE INTERNET I just finished listening to a description of what was hesitantly described as an event comparable to Marconi's first transmission of data over the air waves. The event took place yesterday, Friday, on NPR, when the program "Science Friday" was simulcast over the Internet. That is, voice data was digitized and broadcast to whoever happened to be listening with equipment that could convert the data back to voice. What's more, the broadcast took place in real time-and was interactive. A tape of the voice returned to the radio studio sounded better than telephone quality, apart from the fact that there was relatively frequent dropout. Details of the required equipment were not given. A broadcasting "studio" for the Internet has been set up, with plans to broadcast Congressional and other governmental sessions. Six months ago, I asked at a computer club meeting if the Internet could be used as a cheap/free telephone. Nobody there thought it was feasible yet. Do times change, or what! Msg 46268 is 01 line(s) on 05/22/93 from BILL MATTSON to EDWARD MARSH re: FRIMWARE Ed, did you get it? dup. chars. >Function:?