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Publisher: Fido 1/1
Editor in Chief: Thom Henderson
Review Editor: Allen Miller
Chief Procrastinator Emeritus: Tom Jennings
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Table of Contents
1. EDITORIAL
Freeware, Again
2. NEWS
GTE TELENET (PC Pursuit), LDX, SPRINT, MCI, AT&T My Views
More PC-PURSUIT
Beyond War Fido Returns--Distributes World-Wide Petition
PC Pursuit for the Uninitiated
Reach Out and Play!
New version of SHUFFLE available
3. COLUMNS
FidoNet Route Files Explained, Part 4
4. WANTED
Fido's Wanted- Earn Money!
Need DEC Rainbow accessories
5. NOTICES
New version of ARC released
The Interrupt Stack
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EDITORIAL
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Freeware, Again
Yes, I'm beating the drum for freeware, yet again.
Do you have any idea what it takes to bring a product to the
market? Never mind the "expensive cost of copy protection".
That just adds to the software development. Reproducing it
is very cheap.
Far and away, the major cost of marketing anything is the
so-called "marketing costs". It costs, roughly speaking,
about a metric ton of dollars to get anything on your
dealers' shelves and suitably advertised so that anyone will
buy it.
Put yourself in the store owner's shoes for a moment. Shelf
space is money. Why waste that on a product which won't
sell? This is why your local store has such a limited
selection -- he's only going to carry things which have a
good chance of being sold with the machine. This is why the
software market peaks and slumps with the hardware market.
In addition, most distributors don't want to waste their
time with a product which doesn't have a proven track
record. Why should they? It costs money to stock an item;
why spend that money on an item which isn't a proven seller?
So how does a new author enter the market? If nobody has
ever heard of you, then you obviously don't have a proven
track record, and why should anyone gamble their money on
you?
One alternative is to start by advertising and go for mail
or phone order sales first. Then you can prove your product
before asking people to gamble on it. But that costs money.
Call up any trade journal and ask; advertising is EXPENSIVE!
Another approach is freeware. Anybody at all can market
anything at all as freeware. No initial capital investment
is required. Just put a freeware license in the code (copy
it from almost anywhere) and you're off!
This allows truly cheap software. The bulk of the costs
(the marketing costs) are totally bypassed. In addition,
anyone can do it. As a final plus (as if we needed it), the
end user gets to try out the software in actual pratice to
make sure that it really is what he needs and wants for his
own particular application. If everything really worked,
then everyone would benefit.
There's just one small fly in the ointment. The best
estimates we've ever heard place freeware license compliance
at about ten percent. Our own somewhat pessimistic
estimates put it down somewhere less than one percent.
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We had a user on our bulletin board who, in all seriousness,
was asking for a definition of freeware, specifically
wondering if his company (a major New York bank) should pay
for it. We told him thjat his company could not credibly
plead poverty, so he must. But why was he asking in the
first place? This to me indicates a regrettable lack of
understanding about what is really going on here.
I see freeware licensing as a tacit admission that copy
protection can't really be enforced, coupled with an
ingenious marketing idea that woould really benefit
everyone. But only if everyone is truly capable of being
trusted to the extent that freeware authors are trusting
their users. Let's face it, if you are still using a
freeware package after two weeks, then it is obviously
useful to you, and you should pay the fee.
Are you are freeware pirate?
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NEWS
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J Hobbs
Fido 104/56
After reading an article by Paula Giese ( Nov 4, 1985 )
which part of it discussed how GTE is selling Sysop's
services, I thought I would give another opinion.
First of all, I'm not a Sysop so my views may differ from
those of you who are Sysops. However I am a user of a lot
of BBS's, most of them being various Fidos, both local and
not so local. I own a DEC Rainbow and unfortunately there
are no local DEC Fidos. I have to utilize a long distance
carrier to get to a DEC Fido to obtain customized utilities
that are created specifically for the DEC machines.
(Perhaps you noticed the generic use of 'long distance
carrier')
If a Sysop runs a PUBLIC, SEMI-PUBLIC, or PRIVATE Fido (or
other BBS) that I have access to, and I must use someone's
service to access that bulletin board, why cannot the
choice be the cheapest one. Why should it matter to the
Sysop if I use MCI, SPRINT, LDX, AT&T or GTE. These are
all large corporations that make big bucks, so why punish me
(a single person, the PUBLIC who you are using Fido to
service) to have to spend more money out of my pocket to
gain access to a remote BBS. Currently I have not decided
whether or not I am going to use another service other than
AT&T because I have heard about problems with noise and bad
lines.
Granted the local users may call more often and have more to
offer in the sence of uploads (since they are not paying $$$
by the minute) but is not the purpose of BBS's to allow the
FREE (or relatively free) exchange of ideas, comments and
solution of problems? (A few games and other utilities are
nice too!) The few long distance callers a BBS may have
probably don't last that long (because of the $$$) or occur
that often. But as in my case are necessary, utilities like
SEDT (a very good full screen editor), AME86 (allows CPM
.CMD programs to run under DOS), KERMIT, PACMAN and other
games for my Rainbow are not available locally.
I guess what it boils down to is this, if you are a Sysop
and decide to run a PUBLIC Fido, and you voluntarily list
your phone number for others to use, WE the PUBLIC (whether
we live 5 or 5000 miles away) should have the right to use
any long distance carrier WE desire to reach out and compute
with someone.
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Fidonews Page 4 25 Nov 1985
I have trouble understanding Paula Giese's reaction to
Pc-Pursuit. I think it represents a great opportunity for
most sysops. Here's why: It allows long distance users to
join in the message sections (probably for the first time)
All the sysops I know hate "board rapers". You know,the
guy who logs on time after time and goes straight to the
downloads without reading your new editorial or even
scanning the message section. Face it, Most long distance
callers can't afford the luxury of scanning and entering
messages...it's just too costly..so by and large most long
distance callers are in search of downloads.
Enter PC-PURSUIT. For a measly $25 you can call any board
in the 12 cities currently offering the service for up to an
hour at a time. Now at last it's practical for long distance
users to become active in the message sections and really
start contributing.
On Fido 123/4 we try to emphasize the message areas. Sure
we have downloads, 12 file areas in fact but what makes the
board thrive is the discussion and debates held in several
of our message sections.
Currently we are not in a city where PC-PURSUIT is
available but I look forward to the day when we get it. I
expect to pick up quite a few valuable users.
Charles Grisamore
Subsysop IBM Section
Grape-Vine
123/4
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Fidonews Page 5 25 Nov 1985
Andy Kanter, Sysop Beyond War/IPPNW BBS
Fido 101/301
Beyond War Fido Returns
For those of you familiar with the Beyond War BBS (OLD FIDO
301), you will be happy to know that it is back on-line in
Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is now called the Beyond
War/IPPNW BBS (FIDO 101/301), and now includes information
relating to the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize winning International
Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. Operating 22
hours a day (except 0400-0600 EST for mail), it accepts
300/1200, 8/N/1. Offering more information and programs
than ever before. This is the computer to call if you are
interested in peace and the prevention of nuclear war. Give
us a call:
( 6 1 7 ) 8 7 6 - 0 4 2 2
NEWSFLASH!!! NEWSFLASH!!! NEWSFLASH!!! NEWSFLASH!!!
Important!!! On December 14, 1985, the 1985 Beyond War
Award will be presented to the six signers of the Five
Continent Peace Initiative via a 7-way, 5-continent,
satellite broadcast. This is the first time such a space-
bridge has connected five continents in the history of the
planet. At the ceremony, a petition in support of the
Initiative will be presented with (hopefully) 1 million
signatures from people around the world.
If you would be interested in signing the below petition,
send me a fidonet message to SYSOP of FIDO 101/301 (the
Beyond War/IPPNW BBS) and I will include your name on the
petition. IF YOU ARE SO MOTIVATED... please take the below
petition, copy it, and have as many people sign it as
possible. Then mail them back to: Andy Kanter, 1580
Massachusetts Ave. Apt. 8A, Cambridge, MA 02138! Before
December 7, 1985.
If you would like more information about the presentation
(it can be viewed at 140+ locations around the globe,
including the U.N.), or more info about Beyond War, you can
also send a message to FIDO 101/301 or call Andy at (617)
876-0931, or the Beyond War Office at (415) 328-7756. This
is of the utmost importance and EVERY SIGNATURE COUNTS!!!
Please sign!!!
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A CALL TO END THE THREAT OF WAR
Six World Leaders have spoken, issuing
The Delhi Declaration of the Five Continent Peace Initiative
on January 28, 1985, saying in part:
"Forty years ago, when atomic bombs were blasted over Hiro-
shima and Nagasaki, the human race became aware that it
could destroy itself...
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"We find ourselves in this situation because the nuclear
weapons states have applied traditional doctrines of a war
in a world where new weapons have made them obsolete. What
is the point of nuclear 'superiority' or 'balance' when each
side has enough weapons to devastate the earth dozens of
times over? If the old doctrines are applied in the future,
the holocaust will be inescapable sooner or later. But
nuclear war can be prevented if our voices are joined in a
universal demand in defense of our right to live.
"It is imperative to find a remedy to the existing situation
where hundreds of billions of dollars, amounting to approx-
imately one and a half million per minute, are spent annual-
ly on weapons. This stands in dramatic contrast to the
poverty, and in some cases misery, in which two-thirds of
the world population lives.
"We urge the people, parliaments and governments the world
over to lend forceful support to this appeal... Only then
will governments summon the necessary political will to
overcome the many obstacles which lie in the path of peace.
"For centuries, men and women have fought for their rights
and freedoms. We now face the greatest struggle of all--for
the right to live, for ourselves and for future generations.
Signed by:
H.E. Mr. Raul Alfonsin H.E. Mr. Olof Palme
Pres. of Argentina P.M. of Sweden
H.E. Mr. Miguel de la H.E. Mr. Rajiv Gandhi
Madrid Pres. of Mexico P.M. of India
H.E. Mr. Julius Nyerere H.E. Mr. Andreas Papandreou
Pres. of Rep. of Tanzania P.M. of Greece
STATEMENT OF PERSONAL RESPONSE
I support the above principles as expressed in the Delhi
Declaration and join the voices calling upon the parliaments
the world over to end the threat of war.
___________________________________________
Name State Country
___________________________________________
Name State Country
___________________________________________
Name State Country
Return by 12/1/85 to: A. Kanter, 1580 Mass. Ave. #8A,
Cambridge, MA 02140
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5 to: A. Kanter, 1580 Mass. Ave. #8A,
Cambridge, MA 02140
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Chuck Lawson
Sysop Fido 124/12
The Inside Track Edition
PC Pursuit for the Uninitiated
With all of the articles in FidoNews lately, there appears
to be some misunderstanding of what PC Pursuit is and does.
As an active user of PC Pursuit, I'd like to take this
opportunity to explain a little bit about what PC Pursuit is
and what it means to sysops and users alike. The issue of
GTE's compensation to Tom Jennings has been adequately
discussed in (many) other articles, so I won't discuss it
here.
PC Pursuit allows "Free" access to 300 and 1200 baud data
numbers from and to many numbers in 12 citys in the US.
If you don't live within the local calling area of one of
these citys, PC Pursuit cannot benefit you (nor can it
exploit you).
If you do live within a local call of one of these cities,
PC Pursuit presents an excellent opportunity for you to take
advantage of low-cost calling to the other areas supported
by the service, and if you are a sysop (of any kind of
board), will provide you with many new users from all over
the country.
If you are a Fido sysop in an enterprising network in one of
these areas, you might find an even greater benefit: free
mail to and from other networks in PC Pursuit supported
areas.
To use PC Pursuit to place calls, you need to subscribe to
the service. The cost (as of this writing) is $25 per month,
and a one time $25 installation fee. This entitles you to
place calls through the service during evenings and
weekends. The only limit is 60 minutes per call, but you can
place as many 60 minute calls as you like, even if they are
all to the same number.
Once set up, to use the service you simply call the local PC
Pursuit phone number, and give it your phone number, the
name of the city that you wish to call, and the number you
wish to call. PC Pursuit will then disconnect.
You must set your modem/comm package to autoanswer, and from
one to five minutes after you place the call, PC Pursuit
will call YOU, and attempt to place your call. After
thrashing around with the internals of Telenet for a few
minutes, PC Pursuit will call the requested number. If the
number doesn't answer, it will disconnect after two tries.
If the number is busy, Pursuit will retry for approximately
10 minutes. Otherwise, if it can make a connection, it
announces that you are connected, and you are on your own.
As a sysop, to get callers via PC Pursuit, you need do
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nothing. In fact, they will come to you whether you
encourage them or not. A PC Pursuit caller is
indistiguishable from any other caller. If you do not care
for long distance users, or wish to keep the board open for
your regulars during evening hours, you can simply follow
Tom Jennings' example, and not allow new callers during PC
Pursuit hours.
In order to get free fidomail via PC Pursuit, you need to
either be willing to do the work involved in setting up the
facilities, or have someone else in your net do the work and
provide it to the rest. In our net, net 124, we have been
lucky enough to have someone who has been willing to do the
work and share it with the rest of us. The same thing has
happened in San Francisco Bay Net, Net 125, and I'm sure has
happened or will happen in other places. The details of how
this is done will vary from net to net, but in our net it is
completely transparent to those not directly participating
in the project. We simply set the price to $00.00, and send
the mail. Once it is routed to the host, it is re-routed
through the "Pursuit Net" and is gone.
Using PC Pursuit is not without it's irritations. Telenet
causes delays in the line, and sometimes the echo back from
the board at the other end will fall behind your typing, but
the effect is not as pronounced as I have seen on some
boards which are multitasked.
Having to use the "place a call - get a call back" system is
frustrating as well, but this is a blessing to users who pay
metered charges for local calls - you only have to pay for a
one minute local call. Inventive use of script files and
command files in CrossTalk and ProComm 2.0 make short work
of the details involved in placing calls through PC Pursuit.
Other irritations are relatively minor. PC Pursuit places
the call back at the same speed and parity that you used
calling in. This wouldn't be a problem, except that PC
Pursuit wants 7 bit even parity for your call in, and we
know how well protocals like XMODEM like that. To get around
this, one can simply call at 8/N/1 and PC Pursuit will
synchonize after your first few lines of input. After using
it a few times, you know what the prompts are anyway, and
it's relatively easy to live with garbaged prompts.
Shortcomings to the service at this point include a lack of
2400 baud service, and limited access to area codes other
than the primary area code in many cities. GTE has indicated
that it will address both of these problems around the first
of the year.
That, in a nutshell, is what PC Pursuit is all about. It has
it's problems, but it is as much bang for your telephone
buck that is available at the moment. I easily spent three
to four times the monthly fee placing calls through Sprint
or MCI before I started using PC Pursuit.
Disclaimer: I have no association with GTE except as a
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satisfied customer of PC Pusuit, and a sometimes disgruntled
customer of it's local phone service.
Chuck Lawson, Sysop Fido 124/12
The Inside Track Edition (214) 422-4772
Dallas's News Fido
300/1200/2400, 24 hrs, 7 days a week
Full access to first time callers, with questionaire.
Real Names Only, Please.
Accessible Via PC Pursuit / Dallas.
Long distance callers welcome!
(yes, this is a plug!)
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From: David Drexler/Mark Grennan, sysops REMARK 19/202
Subject: R.O.A.P.: Reach Out And Play
Date: 20 NOV 85
Are there any Go players in the crowd? Have you ever tried
to play a game by mail? It's pretty hard to keep your moti-
vation up, since there may be many hundreds of moves in a
typical game, and even if the turnaround is only 24 hours,
that works out to be a VERY long time...
I had an idea awhile back for playing long-distance Go
without overly enriching Mother Bell in the process. It
involved a couple of pc's & modems at each end (of course),
and two cooperative amateur radio operators in the middle.
The pc's would run a specialized communications program that
could also plot the board graphically on screen and printer,
verify the moves, store them, take them off the board, etc.
Multiple games could be conducted at the same time by pre-
fixing each move transmitted with an identifying header. It
seemed possible to hold remote tournaments that way.
It never got off the ground. Turned out to be more trouble
to coordinate all the events and people than I thought it
would be, the program never got finished, and everybody in
my Go club lost interest. The whole project was pushed into
background and forgotten -- until last night, when it
occured to me that there was a much better alternative to Ma
Bell than ham radio: Compuserve.
Using "chat" mode, we could do everything that we were going
to do with the hams, do it anytime we wanted to, and still
for minimal cost. At 300 baud, during the "cheap" time,
it'll cost only $6 per hour, and two hours would be plenty
enough time to play a couple games. With three players at
each end splitting the charge, it comes out to just a couple
bucks apiece.
But why stop at Go? Why not Pente, Chess, Othello, or any
other board game? All that's needed at each end is a program
that can display the board and verify the moves. A real
smart program could handle several of those games.
Comments, anyone?
For the chess players out there who want to play by the more
conventional move-at-a-time by mail, feel free to drop us a
line here. We promise to give you a strong game.
REMARK Information System
(405) 728-2463 - Fido 19/202
The board for serious computerists
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Fidonews Page 11 25 Nov 1985
From Robert Lederman
Met-Chem Fido 16/42
NEW VERSION OF SHUFFLE
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Thanks to everyone for the overwhelming response I
received to SHUFFLE. I have just released a significant
upgrade.
SHUFFLE is a Fido sysop utility for maintaining download
file areas. Files and corresponding FILES.BBS entries can
be redirected among directories.
Version 2.0 supports full-screen operation and a host of new
features. FILES.BBS entries can be redirected to specific
points in the destination FILES.BBS. File dates can be
changed and can be automatically added to FILES.BBS.
Remote full screen sessions are supported under PibTerm,
ProComm, Mintel, and FANSI-console. A generic MS-DOS
version is now under test.
You can get the current version of SHUFFLE by calling
Met-Chem BBS, Fido 16/42, at 203/281-7287.
Thanks,
Robert
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FidoNet Route Files Explained
Part 4 -- LISTGEN and ROUTE.CTL
by Ben Baker, Fido 100/76
LISTGEN Version 2 will automatically generate route
files for you if you desire. The advantage is that LISTGEN
is driven by a control file, ROUTE.CTL, in which you specify
the statements necessary with symbolic parameters that you
define in terms of nets, area codes, etc.. A properly
designed ROUTE.CTL need only change when your routing needs
change. LISTGEN will continue to create correct route files
week after week as the nodelist changes.
Before I begin, I'd like to do a quick review of the
route file commands and their effect.
SCHEDULE <tag> <list> or
SEND-TO <list> Determines which nodes may have
packets build to SEND mail to.
ROUTE-TO <target> <list> Directs that messages to par-
ticular addressees be SENT in
packets to another node.
ACCEPT-FROM <list> Specifies which oritinators'
messages may be SENT.
RECV-ONLY States that packets may only be
SENT by being picked up.
HOLD <list> States that packets to part-
icular nodes may only be SENT
by being picked up.
PICK-UP <list> States that it is OK to receive
mail from particular nodes when
we originate calls to SEND them
packets.
POLL <list> Directs that packets (empty if
necessary) be generated and
SENT to particular nodes in
order to pick up mail.
SEND-ONLY States that calls may be made
rapid-fire to SEND as many
packets as possible.
Note that each definition above includes the verb SEND
or SENT. I did that deliberately to emphasize that these
commands all control some aspect of sending mail.
LISTGEN has been adaquately documented and I do not
intend to re-document it here, but I would like to show you
how ROUTE.CTL commands map to the ROUTE.<tag> commands
covered above.
SCHEDULE <tag> <target list>
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When LISTGEN encounters this command in ROUTE.CTL it
does two things. First it closes any route file it may be
working on and creates a new ROUTE.<tag> file for the new
<tag>. Then it generates a SCHEDULE statement from the
specifications in this one for the new ROUTE.<tag>,
expanding any symbolic parameters to lists of nodes from the
nodelist. In other words, it begins a new route file as you
would expect it to by defining the <target list>.
FROM <accept list>
This phrase, when encountered, generates an ACCEPT-FROM
statement.
TO <addressee list> [ VIA <target> ]
If the VIA clause is present, this statement generates
a "ROUTE-TO <target> <addressee list>." Successive TO
phrases without VIA clauses accumulate to make a larger
<addressee list> until a VIA clause IS found. Then the
entire list is routed to the <target>. (I'm not entirely
happy with this "feature," but that's the way it works.) If
no VIA clause is ever found, the TO phrase generates no
output at all! It does serve as documentation in your
ROUTE.CTL file, saying "I expect to be sending mail TO these
nodes in this schedule."
All of the other route file commands discussed above
map one-for-one in the same format from ROUTE.CTL to
ROUTE.<tag>.
The big advantage in using LISTGEN is to be able to use
simple symbols which it will translate into long lists of
nodes. To illustrate, net 100 spans two area codes, 314 in
Missouri and 618 in Illinois. To minimize the number of
toll calls placed accross the Mississippi, I serve as "Metro
East" hub to concentrate the Illinois traffic. I have the
following statements (among others) in my ROUTE.CTL file:
define Metro-East as Net-100 except Area-314 ; Area 618
define Outbound as 100/10
define World as all except Metro-East
* * *
FROM Metro-East TO World VIA Outbound
Nodes may come and go, both in our net and across the
country, and these statements need not change. LISTGEN
interprets them week after week and builds the right route
files every time. And in several months, if our outbound
host should change making it necessary to change ROUTE.CTL,
I can look at this and not have to say to myself "What on
earth was I trying to do here?" It's all pretty obvious.
Before I wrap it up, there are two important exceptions
to the things I have said. First, schedule A is special in
that the <target list> always is the entire nodelist, no
matter what ROUTE.A says. For that reason, if you do any
routing not defined by the node list, I recommend that you
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DO NOT USE SCHEDULE A. For all other schedules, Fido does
exactly what ROUTE.<tag> tells it to do and nothing more.
And second, ROUTE.BBS is a special route file that affects
all schedules for which there are no ROUTE.<tag> files. For
that reason, I recommend that you FORGET YOU EVER HEARD OF
ROUTE.BBS. It'll cause more problems than it'll ever solve!
So, routing can get pretty complex (just ask 'em in
Southern California), but it doesn't need to be complicated
once you know what the objective of each schedule is from
your point of view, and what your Fido needs to do to meet
those objectives.
In fact, it's pretty easy if you just remember the two
points I have been hammering at you since we began:
1) Route files control the way you send messages, not
the way you receive them. Every command we discussed above
controls some aspect of sending messages. And. . .
2) A particular route file only affects the schedule
with the matching <tag>. What you say in ROUTE.B has no
bearing whatever on schedule C. Each schedule must be
separately spelled out.
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WANTED
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Steve Nyman
Fido 107/22
NEED FIDO'S TO PRINT E-MAIL
My company, Micro Information Services, needs Fido's from
across the U.S. to receive our customer's e-mail, print it
and mail it via U.S. Mail. We anticipate moderate mail
volume, depending upon the region.
NO COST TO YOU: All envelopes, paper, and postage will be
provided in advance.
PROFITS: You will be paid for your services.
IF INTERESTED: Direct inquiries via e-mail to Steve Nyman
on Fido 107/22. Thanks.
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Fidonews Page 16 25 Nov 1985
Need DEC Rainbow accessories.
I have a DEC Rainbow 100 (old version) and would like to run
Fido on it. I also have a Microscience 10 MB Hard Disk. Do
any of you know of a controller that I could use with a
ST506 hard disk?
I also would like to run MS-DOS on the Rainbow. Where is it
available?
Thanks in advance. Please contact me at address below:
Submitted by: David Messer - SYSOP Fido 14/415
UUCP: ihnp4!quest!dave
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NOTICES
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ARC
Version 4.5
We are pleased to announce the release of ARC version 4.5.
This version adds compression suppression and archive
"freshening". We've also changed our naming scheme to use
.ARC and .$$$ instead of .BAK and .ARC, which allows for
more painless error recovery. In case of an error, your
original archive will be preserved with its original name.
We are gratified at the positive response you've shown to
our little utility. Thanks to you all for making ARC such a
success.
Thom Henderson and Andy Foray
System Enhancement Associates
Fido 107/7
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The Interrupt Stack
27 Nov 1985
Halley's Comet passes closest to Earth before perihelion.
9 Dec 1985
DECUS Anaheim. The first session (Roadmap session) of
the PC Special Interest Group will meet at 11:30 in the
PC Campground (Bonita Tower, Santa Cruz room). See you
there...
24 Jan 1986
Voyager 2 passes Uranus.
9 Feb 1986
Halley's Comet reaches perihelion.
9 Feb 1986
Diana Overholt (109/74) has another birthday.
11 Apr 1986
Halley's Comet reaches perigee.
19 May 1986
Steve Lemke's next birthday.
24 Aug 1989
Voyager 2 passes Neptune.
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