Fido(tm) Version 11w FidoNet(tm) Net 1 Node -1 ~ WELCOME TO THE` ~ WELLINGTON MICRO COMPUTING SOCIETY'S` ~ FIDO BULLETIN BOARD` ~ __ ` The World's First~ / \ Sysop : Peter Cowley` BBS Network ~ /|oo \ ` : Home Phone 837-503 * FidoNet * ~ (_| /_) ` : Work Phone 736-099 ~ _\@/_ \ _ ` ~ | | \ \\ ` ~ | (*) | \ ))` ~ ______ |__U__| / \// ` ~ / `Fido~ \ _//|| _\ / ` ~ (________) (_/(_|(____/ ` ~Your FIRST name:` Tony ~Your LAST name:` Wills Tony Wills? [Y,n]: Wait ... Password: .... You last called on 27 Aug 87 00:48:21 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: remember to press several returns when your modem has connected to tell FIDO what baud rate you are using. NOTE ALSO: Control C and Control K will abort most mommands and return you to the menu. Control S pauses the display. Any key except another Ctrl-S will let it continue. See Bulletins for other useful control codes. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ~" T H E B U L L E T I N B O A R D "` ~=======================================` STOP PRESS.......... The BBS will now give you a different amount of time depending on when you call. The arrangement is: Calls between 5pm and 10:30pm will get the normal 30 minutes Calls outside of these hours will get 2 hours connect time. The bbs will not answer the phone in the 10 minutes prior to these two times. Any problems then let me know. Peter You are the 98th caller Wait ... ~Main: M F G S A B Y C U E V or ? for help:` ? ~ M A I N S E C T I O N` +--------------------------------------+ | M ... Enter the MESSAGE SECTION | | F ... Enter the FILES SECTION | | B ... Read the Bulletin | | E ... Read the Editorial | | G ... Goodbye (Logoff) | | S ... Statistics (time left, etc) | | A ... Answer Questionaire | | Y ... Yell at the Sysop (Chat with) | | C ... Change Help Level, Name, Nulls | | U ... List of Users | | V ... Fido Version | +--------------------------------------+ ~Main: M F G S A B Y C U E V or ? for help:` m FidoNet Msg Area #16: Messages to Other nodes (not yet available) 0 messages, highest is #0, last you read was #0 ~Want to check for mail? [Y,n]:` y Looking at msg # New messages to you: NONE Old messages to you: NONE Messages you have entered: NONE FidoNet Msg Area #16: Messages to Other nodes (not yet available) Mail: A L R E K I S G M or ? for help: a ----- Message Areas ----- 1 ... GENERAL INTEREST 2 ... DEBATES 3 ... TECHNICAL 4 ... BUY, SWAP and SELL 5 ... IBMPC, CLONES and COMPATABLES 6 ... COMMUNICATIONS 7 ... PROGRAMS 8 ... JOKES - Read at your own risk!!!!!! 9 ... Answers to messages left when logging off. 16 ... * Messages to Other nodes (not yet available) Message Area, or Quit: 1 Wait ... Msg Area #1: GENERAL INTEREST 58 messages, highest is #68, last you read was #27 ~Want to check for mail? [Y,n]:` y New messages to you: 65, 43, 42, 41, 36, Old messages to you: 25, Messages you have entered: 28, 27, 26, 24, Msg Area #1: GENERAL INTEREST ~Msg: A L R E K I S G M or ? for help:` s 58 messages, highest is #68, last you read was #27 27 Aug 87 01:23:08, on for 4:04 mins. Your 8th call | Total Today Limit Left ------------+------------------------ Downloaded: | 2 2 200 198 Kbytes Uploaded: | 0 Kbytes This call: | 4 30 26 Min. Per 24 Hrs: | 30 90 60 Min. Want to check for mail? [Y,n]: n ~Msg Area #1: GENERAL INTEREST` ~Msg: A L R E K I S G M or ? for help:` r Read messages. [27] 1 - 68 R K E N P - + Q or ? for help: 25 #25 19 22 Aug 87 22:58:36 (RECV'D) From: Stephen Jones To: Tony Wills Subj: The Real Computer Hi, Tony, fellow user of the only real computer. Do you notice the conspicuous absence of our computer from the files list? I do not like the idea of ploughing through screeds of Commodore 64 rubbish. Hey, Peter, where's our Amiga files section? I've got a really good mouse pointer to upload! Wait till you see it!!! [25] 1 - 68 R K E N P - + Q or ? for help: k Message 25 deleted. #26 19 23 Aug 87 01:35:54 (RECV'D) From: Tony Wills To: Peter Cowley REPLY TO #16 SEE ALSO #36 Subj: 8086 Time to learn!!?? (8086 assembler) [26] 1 - 68 R K E N P - + Q or ? for help: r 36 #36 16 23 Aug 87 19:15:13 From: Peter Cowley To: Tony Wills REPLY TO #26 Subj: 8086 assembler Like hell! I have got better things to do besides having to learn the instruction set to a horrid chip. 6809's forever. [36] 1 - 68 R K E N P - + Q or ? for help: r This will be message #69 From: Tony Wills REPLY To: Peter Cowley Private? [y,N]: Subject: 6809's Enter your message, blank line to end. Words will wrap automatically 1: 6809's are dead, long line the 68030!! 2: L)ist A)bort D)elete I)nsert T)o subJ)ect C)ontinue E)dit S)ave ? for help L A D I T J C E S ?: s Saving your message Wait ... Adding a reply to msg #36 #38 16 23 Aug 87 21:18:47 (RECV'D) From: Gerry Macridis To: Jeremy Scrivener REPLY TO #22 SEE ALSO #54 Subj: Fidonet An overseas link would be great. Overseas boards are not boring! -=* Gerry *=- [38] 1 - 75 R K E N P - + Q or ? for help: n #39 16 23 Aug 87 22:43:27 From: Edward Kingswood To: All SEE ALSO #45 Subj: WANG WELL YOU BE ABLE TO HELP ME WITH A PROBLEM WITH A COMPUTER I GOT FOR NO ONE SEEMS TO KNOW ANYTHINK ABOUT IT.IT IS A WANG 2200 IMDUSTRIAL COMPUTER AND THE DISK DRIVE IS NO.2700-2,FOR IT HAS 2 DRIVES AND ALSO 1 SIDE DISK SPACE PER DISK AND 1024 SECTORS AND 256 BYTS PER SECTOR BUT THATS ALL I REALY KNOE FOR I WISH TO KNOW ABOUT THE CHARTER SET. IF YOU OR SOMEONE CAN HELP I WEL BE VERY PLEASED.FOR I CAN NOT GET THAT MACHINE ON THE BOARDS AS SONE AS POSSIBLE. THANKS FOR THE HELP FROM ANYONE AND ALSO THANKS TO PETER. [39] 1 - 75 R K E N P - + Q or ? for help: r This will be message #76 From: Tony Wills REPLY To: Edward Kingswood Private? [y,N]: You have only 2 minutes left Subject: #40 14 23 Aug 87 22:53:53 From: Edward Kingswood To: Petter Cowely SEE ALSO #47 Subj: FIDO IF THERE IS ANY MONEY TO PAY FOR THIS NETWORK CAN YOU TELL NE MUCH AND WHEN. [38] 1 - 69 R K E N P - + Q or ? for help: 41 #41 14 24 Aug 87 01:38:58 From: Stephen Jones To: Tony Wills REPLY TO #27 SEE ALSO #43 Subj: Hard disk controller Does your hard disk controller work with an Amiga 500? I suppose if it did it would also work for an Amiga 1000 and you would be using it!! [41] 1 - 69 R K E N P - + Q or ? for help: r This will be message #70 From: Tony Wills REPLY To: Stephen Jones Private? [y,N]: Subject: HD Controller Enter your message, blank line to end. Words will wrap automatically 1: Probably ok with Amiga500, you write the driver to talk to it 2: thru the parrallel port (like the microbotics drive) 3: L)ist A)bort D)elete I)nsert T)o subJ)ect C)ontinue E)dit S)ave ? for help L A D I T J C E S ?: s Saving your message Wait ... Adding a reply to msg #41 Msg #41 has reply msg #43 #42 16 24 Aug 87 01:40:34 From: Stephen Jones To: Tony Wills REPLY TO #28 Subj: BBS list The most up-to-date BBS list available is on LOG (phone 278-595 after hours). When logged on, use the B command to get bulletins - you'll see it in the list. New users get bulletin access. I like your Kiwi. This "rainbow" is really neat. A bit hard on the eyes when there are rainbows all over the screen when I'm logging on to boards, but none-the-less neat! [42] 1 - 75 R K E N P - + Q or ? for help: 44 #45 14 24 Aug 87 21:10:06 From: Aaron Roydhouse To: Edward Kingswood REPLY TO #39 Subj: Wang Yeah Wangs are very different to most other system. Yours may be an entirely diffet computer from the run-of-mill Wang PC's. I don't know about the character set, but I do have a Wang disk reader for the IBM PC for format conversions. [45] 1 - 75 R K E N P - + Q or ? for help: #47 13 24 Aug 87 22:10:20 From: Peter Cowley To: Edward Kingswood REPLY TO #40 Subj: fido Hello Eddy, Please note that my name is spelt Peter. I nearly missed your message as the computer thinks it is for someone else. I wll let everyone know when I have manage to set up the network and how much it would cost. I think sending messages to (say) Auckland should work out at about 25 to 30 cents each. This is a very rough estimate. I have still to determine how much it would cost to send files (if it is possible) [47] 1 - 75 R K E N P - + Q or ? for help: #48 13 24 Aug 87 22:50:41 From: Conrad Bullock To: All SEE ALSO #51 Subj: Hooray!!!!!!!!! Well, after many, many, many hours of slaving over dumps of BDOS and BIOS, I have finally got this DHL 1000 Model 3 to speak at 300 baud to a bulletin board. It took me three hours just to get it to use 1 stop bit instead of 2 stop bits, but it is all worth it!! I can now try downloading some CPM software. One problem is that I keep missing the first letter of a lot of lines. I think I have to add some nulls, I'm not sure, so I'll try it. See ya round! [48] 1 - 75 R K E N P - + Q or ? for help: #49 13 24 Aug 87 22:55:55 From: Conrad Bullock To: All SEE ALSO #50 Subj: DHL Yes! It was just the Nulls!! Heck this is great, I love myself! [49] 1 - 75 R K E N P - + Q or ? for help: [42] 1 - 70 R K E N P - + Q or ? for help: 43 #43 5 24 Aug 87 19:30:29 (PRIVATE) From: Aaron Roydhouse To: Tony Wills REPLY TO #41 SEE ALSO #70 Subj: 5 Meg disk. Hmmm.... Very tempting but I suspect it might require a bit of 'hacking' to get it going on my Z80 system. I don't know if I have something which will easily conform to a bi-directional parallel port. What else can you tell me? I definitely interested, if I could get it to work I would make and offer. Kill this message now? [Y,n]: n [43] 1 - 70 R K E N P - + Q or ? for help: r This will be message #71 From: Tony Wills REPLY To: Aaron Roydhouse Private? [y,N]: y Subject: 5 Meg Disk Enter your message, blank line to end. Words will wrap automatically Well I've got all the doc'c s for it, if you'd like a copy of the doc's I'll photocopy them. I originally tried connecting it to an Apple ][ with a z80 CPM card, but the Apple's timing was a bit funny and I kept getting the wrong buffer contents. Can't gaurantee any of it works properly but if you're serious you're welcome to have a play (so long as you don't destroy anything!). But it will require a bit of hardware and software hacking. L)ist A)bort D)elete I)nsert T)o subJ)ect C)ontinue E)dit S)ave ? for help L A D I T J C E S ?: s Saving your message Wait ... Adding a reply to msg #43 Msg #43 has reply msg #70 [45] 1 - 71 R K E N P - + Q or ? for help: 65 #65 6 26 Aug 87 14:52:10 From: Tony Jones To: Tony Wills Subj: 8086 You shouldn't swear like that! Anyway, 8086 is only 6 more than 8080, and Peter should know 8080. I mean, it's almost exactly the same, but it has segmented memory. Master [65] 1 - 71 R K E N P - + Q or ? for help: r This will be message #72 From: Tony Wills REPLY To: Tony Jones Private? [y,N]: Subject: 8086 Enter your message, blank line to end. Words will wrap automatically 1: If you like Intel chips, then you probably like Forth, Lisp, HP 2: calculators and other painful things. Now if you want a real processor 3: get stuck into the National SC/MP chip (it's got segmented memory too!). 4: but I don't think anyone ever built a system using more than 4k or 5: memory that used one anyway.) 6: L)ist A)bort D)elete I)nsert T)o subJ)ect C)ontinue E)dit S)ave ? for help L A D I T J C E S ?: s Saving your message Wait ... Adding a reply to msg #65 #66 6 26 Aug 87 15:09:24 (RECV'D) From: Peter Cowley To: Conrad Bullock REPLY TO #58 Subj: LOGON TIMES I am glad you like the new arrangement. it may still require some fine tuning The reason for the ten minutes seems to be because if a user logs on at say a minute before an event is meant to happen then it could stop the evcent from occuring. That may not matter but on the other hand it may. If you log on 20 minutes before an event it twells you that an event is due in so many minutes and i think it chucks you off. I am not sure about that though. What the system does is exit the bbs softwarewith an errorlevel that is checked for in the batch file and another different version is loaded u [66] 1 - 72 R K E N P - + Q or ? for help: r This will be message #73 From: Tony Wills REPLY To: Peter Cowley Private? [y,N]: Subject: Oh yeah? Enter your message, blank line to end. Words will wrap automatically 1: Me logged on at 0:48 and got kicked off at 1:18, I think I must be 2: suffering from some relativistic affects such as time dilation due to 3: the high speed of my two fingered typing - that was the shortest two 4: hours that I've ever seen. 5: L)ist A)bort D)elete I)nsert T)o subJ)ect C)ontinue E)dit S)ave ? for help L A D I T J C E S ?: s Saving your message Wait ... Adding a reply to msg #66 #68 1 27 Aug 87 00:07:22 From: Conrad Bullock To: Sysop Subj: Time Limits The time is 12:15am, and I only have a time limit of 30mins! I tried to do a batch download, and it told me it would take 38 mins, and that I didn't have enough time left! [38] 1 - 74 R K E N P - + Q or ? for help: e This will be message #75 From: Tony Wills To: All Private? [y,N]: Subject: Forsale Enter your message, blank line to end. Words will wrap automatically 1: The next Wellington Meeting will be a combined Amiga and Buy/Sell swap 2: meeting (ie nothing was jacked up for it!). Anyway bring along any 3: junk you want to sell, and some money to buy things with. 4: A few other odments I've got for sale : 5: S100 mother board 6: S100 powersupply 7: S100 Z80 board 8: S100 64k ram board 9: Apple][ mother board 10: Huge metal box (3x AT case size) for a large beast 11: Apple ][ 6MHz Z80 card, with CP/M Plus 12: ASCII encoded keyboard 13: L)ist A)bort D)elete I)nsert T)o subJ)ect C)ontinue E)dit S)ave ? for help L A D I T J C E S ?: s Saving your message Wait ... ~File Area #17: Amiga specific programs` File: A L F T G U D S M or ? for help: t File to T)ype: amigaterm.c /************************************************************************* a terminal program that has ascii and xmodem transfer capability** use esc to abort xmodem transfer** written by Michael Mounier************************************************* File Area #17: Amiga specific programs File: A L F T G U D S M or ? for help: l f HANDY.CUR 256 Uploaded by Tony Jones AMIGATER.C 33024 NARC. 50304 RAINBOW.ARC 3712 Psychadelic Workbench! MARIJUAN. 256 devs/system-configuration AMIGA mouse cursor (Stephen Jones) File: A L F T G U D S M or ? for help: f HANDY.CUR 256 Uploaded by Tony Jones AMIGATER.C 33024 NARC. 50304 RAINBOW.ARC 3712 Psychadelic Workbench! MARIJUAN. 256 devs/system-configuration AMIGA mouse cursor (Stephen Jones) File Area #17: Amiga specific programs File: A L F T G U D S M or ? for help: a ----- File Areas ----- 1 ... CPM 2 ... MSDOS and PCDOS 3 ... MS WINDOWS 4 ... COMMUNICATIONS 5 ... BASIC 6 ... C 7 ... PASCAL 9 ... NEC MACHINES 10 ... APPLE MACHINES 11 ... AMSTRAD MACHINES 12 ... HARDWARE SPECIFIC 13 ... ADVERTISING PRICELISTS ETC 14 ... COMMODORE MACHINES 15 ... DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS 16 ... Bulletins and general interest 17 ... Amiga specific programs File Area, or Quit: 2 File Area #2: MSDOS and PCDOS File: A L F T G U D S M or ? for help: f *** NOTE ***** All files with an extensiln of.ARC are compressed with the ARC utility and will need to be uncompressed with the same utility at your end. The ARC utility is available from this board. ET11.ARC 2944 Elapsed time (from compuserve)(Robert Davies) HELP.DOC 16173 The following files make up the Machine code Assembler A86.COM 21974 Uploaded by Gary Morrison EXMAC.COM 3322 XREF.COM 5129 ERDEMO.BAT 38 HLISTA86.BAT 322 MEXP.BAT 34 MTCOLS.BAT 34 00README.DOC 12524 01INTRO.DOC 14891 02DEMO.DOC 5634 03OPREQ.DOC 9186 04ELEM.DOC 11321 05EXCLUS.DOC 8694 06INSTR.DOC 41322 07FLOAT.DOC 17881 08EXPR.DOC 24173 09DIRC.DOC 24923 10RELOC.DOC 31992 11MACRO.DOC 26954 12COMPAT.DOC 9570 13TOOLS.DOC 14180 14HIST.DOC 4122 15RESERV.DOC 10093 16INDEX.DOC 16300 A86.LIB 774 LINES.8 2876 MSDOS.8 2449 PAGE.8 901 REV.8 3785 USAGE.8 645 VFAT.ARC 10240 Look at the File Allocation Table (FAT) of your hard disk. Uploaded by Robert Davies. PMAP.ARC 19456 Shows how memory is being used. Uploaded By R. Davies CLKFIX.SYS 384 Put DEVICE=CLKFIX.SYS in your config.sys file to fix the midnight rollover bug in DOS 3.x. Uploaded by Robert Davies. PUSHDIR.DOC 1024 Programs to recover original directory after a directory PUSHDIR.COM 128 change in a batch job. POPDIR.COM 128 Uploaded by Robert Davies. DETAB.ARC 4864 Removes TABS from a file. Uploaded by Robert Davies. ARC520.COM 55296 The Arc program version 5.20. This program automatically produces the documentation etc CAL.COM 1024 This program will produce a calendar for any month CAL.DOC 384 in any year. D.COM 1280 This as a directory command that gives a horisontal D.DOC 295 display of sorted filenames. Also showes free space. MEMBRAIN.EXE 3584 Ramdisk program MEMBRAIN.DOC 4096 DOSEDIT.COM 2560 Recall your dos commands DOSEDIT.DOC 2816 FREE.COM 1024 At last a simple command to show FREE.DOC 130 you how much disk space is left L.DOC 3628 Great way to List files on the screen. You can Page up L.COM 4096 Down. Also has a string search facility. BROWSE.EXE 9840 Similar to L in that you can look at the contents of a file as if it was a word processor document. SCRNSAVE.COM 512 Turns the screen display off after 3 minutes. Hit any SCRNSAVE.DOC 1536 key to restore. This is a good one too FDATE.COM 1536 Changes the date contained in the disk directory of any FDATE.DOC 1430 nominated file. AUTODEX.EXE 32000 Displays a sorted directory and allows you to delete, AUTODEX.DOC 8497 copy, rename run and view any of the displayed files by a single key stroke. Also creates a file with your descriptions of the other files on the disk. CLEAN2.COM 640 Program to keep accessing a disk CLEAN2.DOC 2944 drive for cleaning the heads ALTER.COM 1024 Changes the attributes of the ALTER.DOC 2688 nominated file. WHEREIS.COM 1025 Hunts through all directories for the nominated file. WHEREIS.DOC 512 Handy when you have forgotten under which directory you have stored a file. TUNE.COM 512 Plays a selection of little tunes. TUNE.DOC 1536 Novel idea for BATCH files. VOLSER.DOC 1295 Changes the VOLUME name of a disk. VOLSER.COM 1152 VDEL.COM 768 This is very useful when tidying up a disk. It presents VDEL.DOC 1014 each file selected by the usual DOS mask (e.g. c:*.*) VDEL.BAK 977 one at a time for you to decide whether or not to delete GCOPY.DOC 993 Allows you to select a group of files for possible copy- GCOPY.EXE 14336 ing and then make an individual decision for each file SCROLLK.BAS 1408 Makes the key a SCROLLK.COM 256 toggle to stop and start screen SCROLLK.DOC 583 scrolling PC-CALC.EXE 2048 Spreadsheet program. Looks rather good. PCCALC.EXE 48128 PCCALC2.EXE 48768 PCCALC3.EXE 46464 PCCALC.MSG 34816 PCCALC.DOC 86758 DOC.BAT 209 prints pc-calc documentation PCOVL.EXE 22656 EXAMPLE. 768 RESPONSE.CAL 5632 READ_ME. 1280 RESPONSE. 3840 PC-FILE.BAT 128 Prints pc-file documentation PCDEF.EXE 15904 PCDOC.EXE 4599 A really good database program. PCEXPOR.EXE 23136 I have used this program and I PCFILE.EXE 46032 think it is excellent. PCFIX.EXE 16560 PCIMPOR.EXE 17536 PCLABEL.EXE 8464 PCPRINT.EXE 38032 PCSETUP.EXE 13616 PCSORT.EXE 21776 PCUTIL.EXE 20656 PCFILE.PRO 128 PCPG.FT1 1919 Graphics program PCPG.FT2 4034 PCPG.FT3 6383 PCPG.FT4 11936 PCPG.FT5 9790 PCPG.SYM 73472 PCPG.EXE 71680 PCPG.HLP 4158 PCPG.PIC 16512 SDEM.GRF 384 FLOW.GRF 2048 DPIC.GRF 768 FDEM.GRF 256 SCULPT.BAS 3391 BLOADER.BAS 192 COPTER2.BAS 96 TIEF.BAS 87 CAR.BAS 76 KEY.BAS 2359 PCNET1.GRF 512 NOSMOKO.GRF 384 DEM.GFL 18 FONTS.GRF 384 IWS1.GRF 1024 SMOKE.GRF 256 PCPGT.GRF 128 3BY5.EXE 96114 Information management system CHAP1&2.DOC 17030 CHAP3.DOC 56184 CHAP4&5.DOC 47673 CHAP6.DOC 23799 PRINTALL.BAT 61 Prints all 3x5 documentation README. 437 SAMPLE1.3X5 19456 SAMPLE1.MAP 3072 SAMPLE2.3X5 5888 SAMPLE2.MAP 1024 SAMPLE3.WP 8369 SAMPLE3.MAP 2048 SAMPLE4.WS 2048 SAMPLE4.MAP 1024 PCUGDISK.V01 14948 PC user Group disk indexes PCUGDISK.V02 19896 PCUGDISK.V03 14313 PCUGDISK.V04 13497 PCUGDISK.V05 14366 PCUGDISK.V06 11295 PCUGDISK.V07 18203 PCUGDISK.V08 2149 PCUGDISK.V09 16885 PCUGDISK.V10 11166 PCUGDISK.V11 14121 PCUGDISK.V12 6616 PCUGDISK.V13 13576 INDEX. 9170 PCUGMEMO. 3164 INSTRUCT.ONS 2058 Read these first... SDBGEN.ARF 128 Small Database Generator SDBGEN.BAT 128 SDBIO.HS 8064 SDB.MEM 25472 README.SDB 896 CMD.CS 21120 COM.CS 10368 CRE.CS 4096 ERR.CS 1792 IEX.CS 7040 INT.CS 4736 IO.CS 10880 MTH.CS 8064 PCJUNK.CS 1536 SCN.CS 15104 SDB.CS 512 SEL.CS 21248 SRT.CS 8704 TBL.CS 2688 SDB.EXE 38528 SDB.HLP 1408 CPC.EXE 39168 Small C CPCLIB.ASM 16000 CPCN.C 49152 IOS1_20.ASM 7296 SMALLC.DOC 32512 _MAIN.C 1536 KEYFLAGS.ASM 7008 Displays status of Caps and Num Lock keys. KEYFLAGS.COM 330 NEWKEY1.EXE 9088 A key-board enhancer similar to NEWKEY.DOC 45824 Prokey and Smartkey. PRINTDOC.EXE Your time limit is up Logging Tony Wills off at 27 Aug 87 ~01:49:03`. Hang up now.