Subj : binkley xe
To : Paul Lentz
From : Roy J. Tellason
Date : Sun Dec 15 2002 12:05 pm
Paul Lentz wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:
PL> Roy J. Tellason wrote in a message to Paul Lentz:
PL> today... FTS0001 packet dates get grunged ummm... might even
RJT> I guess I must be missing something here, because I don't see
RJT> where bink has anything to do with packet dates. It doesn't create
RJT> them, at least not here. The only thing I have it doing is answer
RJT> the phone, transfer files back and forth, and hand off to another
RJT> package for dialing my uucp connection, or to the bbs. That, and
RJT> kick off the mail tossing process when there's some incoming.
RJT> Where does it deal with packet dates?
PL> FTS-0001 calls produce an outgoing packet header that it sends to
PL> the other machine that is filled up like normal packets with
PL> originating/destination zone/net/node info and password, date/time
PL> info, etc.. Both machines exchanges that instead of the EMSI
PL> handshake information. Of course FTS-0001 is rarely used... but it
PL> is broken in older non-y2k binks.
Oh! Well, here I am, running broken software and not even realizing it...
:-)
I'm pretty sure that most all of my calls lately have been using that EMSI
handshake when the two systems connect.
PL> Also for example... the BTXE 2.60 XR6??? early-ish version I'm
PL> running right now also has the date proudly displayed as
PL> "102/12/14"... I couldn't get later versons running correctly so I
PL> live with it,
I have a version of LIST like that, shows today's date as 12/15/:2. I
actually did get a newer one but have never bothered to install it, since it's
only cosmetic here.
PL> also later verions had pull down this, zoom that, buffer this
PL> other stuff that was useless code bloat for an unattended mailer
PL> that you touch a key on once a week.
That sounds to me like a lot of the reason that I didn't move past 2.60, maybe
it was stuff that I was reading in here at the time, I don't recall. About
all I ever do with mine is blank or unblank the screen, manually generate a
poll from time to time, and that's about it. Guess I'll stay with it,
then...
