mirror-textfiles.com/bbs/CBBS/1991/911219.ch

CBBS(R) 4.0.3b
12/19/91 00:16:37

You are caller 224889; next msg =45356;  367 active msgs.
Prev. call 12/17/91 @ 22:18, next msg was 45355

LOG.          3 
KILLED.      32 
SUMMARY.     24 

12/17/91,22:18:46,224872,1,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
E#45355,8
12/17/91,23:53:12,224873,2,CHARLIE KESTNER,,2
12/18/91,06:09:51,224874,2,BILL MATTSON,,2
12/18/91,10:31:23,224875,2,DON PIVEN,,1
12/18/91,10:49:23,224876,1,ALLEN NELSON,elk gorve,2
12/18/91,10:59:40,224877,2,GARY ELFRING,,1
12/18/91,11:49:12,224878,2,ANDREW DECKOWITZ,,1
12/18/91,12:38:47,224879,1,DAVID JOHNSON,,2
12/18/91,14:34:15,224880,2,KEN STOX,,1
12/18/91,15:45:54,224881,2,PHIL SCHUMAN,,1
12/18/91,16:14:30,224882,1,KJLJLJ HJKJH,/,3
12/18/91,18:36:19,224883,2,JAMES SCHMIDT,,2
12/18/91,20:52:06,224884,2,PAUL DOWNING,,
12/18/91,21:32:41,224885,3,MURRAY ARNOW,,2
12/18/91,22:04:02,224886,1,JOHN LIN,Chicago/ IL,3
12/18/91,22:12:18,224887,1,HARVEY BURR,,28
12/18/91,23:58:11,224888,2,MICHAEL SHARTIAG,,1
12/19/91,00:18:03,224889,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
45355 12/17/91 WARD CHRISTENSEN => GARY ELFRING: "R/DJ SCALABLE FONTS"

Msg 45355 is 05 line(s) on 12/17/91 from WARD CHRISTENSEN
to GARY ELFRING re: R/DJ SCALABLE FONTS

  No, not Intellifont - just "plain" HP scaleable fonts as delivered with
the DJ500C.  I guess it was surprisingly simple - I just disabled ATM,
and "poof" only the HP fonts showed up, so somehow, nicely, the two
techniques co-exist to the extent that ATM lets the HP fonts run when
it is disabled.  Somehow i thought it would be less magic and more trouble!



CBBS(R) 4.0.3b
12/19/91 21:28:51

You are caller 224900; next msg =45358;  369 active msgs.
Prev. call 12/19/91 @ 00:17, next msg was 45356

LOG.          3 
KILLED.      32 
SUMMARY.     24 

12/19/91,00:18:03,224889,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,1
12/19/91,06:08:51,224890,2,PETE JONES,,1
12/19/91,07:39:47,224891,2,LARRY GLASSMAN,,1
12/19/91,07:59:41,224892,2,ED FOSTER,,2
12/19/91,08:55:42,224893,2,ED FOSTER,,
E#45356,
E#45357,4
12/19/91,10:29:57,224894,2,DENNIS STAHL,,4
12/19/91,13:37:53,224895,2,DENNIS STAHL,,1
12/19/91,13:52:46,224896,2,DON PIVEN,,1
12/19/91,18:26:04,224897,1,MAX KOHN,,10
12/19/91,19:46:52,224898,1,RICHARD GOZDAL,,2
12/19/91,19:59:45,224899,2,STEVE AIDIKONIS,,2
12/19/91,21:28:54,224900,1,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
45356 12/19/91 ED FOSTER => WARD: "CBBS REWRITE"
45357 12/19/91 ED FOSTER => ALL: "SCALABLE FONTS"

Msg 45356 is 09 line(s) on 12/19/91 from ED FOSTER
to WARD re: CBBS REWRITE

  If you are planning to recode CBBS, the current assembler will probably
translate better to C than to any other language, and there are plenty of
async packages for C.
  If I were doing it I'd probably use Turbo Pascal, but mainly because I
don't like languages that grew out of assembler.  Again with TP there are
several async packages, but I'd use the new object package from TurboPower
Software in Colorado Springs.  These guys seem to be the best so far at
writing generally usable objects.  Come to think of it, they also have a
version for Borland C++ 2.0.

Msg 45357 is 09 line(s) on 12/19/91 from ED FOSTER
to ALL re: SCALABLE FONTS

  There have been several messages about scalable fonts, but they all
seem to involve HP printers.  Recently I worked with an Epson with that
capability, and it was their LQ570, which sells for around $260.  It has
Roman and sans-serif fonts that can be scaled from 8 to 32 points. Not all
sizes in that range are available; it will do only 8, 10, 10.5, 12, 14,
16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 26, 26, 28, 30 and 32.  Of course, since the printhead
is only so deep, the big fonts are done in several passes, but all you
have to do is specify the size and send the characters.  It's reasonably
fast, reasonably quiet, and takes the same ribbon as my old RX-80.