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CONNECT 2400/ARQ
CBBS(R) 4.0.3b
05/08/93 00:18:56

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?n;ward;christensen;odraw;;fullc;piss

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You are caller 229639; next msg =46234;  369 active msgs.
Prev. call 05/03/93 @ 22:11, next msg was 46230
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>Function:?dir c:log;dir c:killed;dir summary;type-20 log,ward c;or;*;short
LOG.   3 
KILLED.   7 
SUMMARY.  24 
05/03/93,22:37:30,229605,X,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,1
]log renamed to l9304, includes first couple days of may.  type-30 l9304
WARD CHRISTENSEN,
05/04/93,00:39:40,229606,2,LEE HARRIS,jax/ fl,
05/04/93,09:40:38,229607,2,DENNIS STAHL,,2
05/04/93,17:11:23,229608,2,BILL PRECHT,,1
05/04/93,21:35:42,229609,2,KEVIN KEYSER,,2
05/04/93,23:26:54,229610,2,BILL MATTSON,,1
05/05/93,02:56:01,229611,2,ROY LIPSCOMB,,1
05/05/93,08:23:44,229612,2,DENNIS STAHL,,0
05/05/93,10:09:04,229613,2,DENNIS STAHL,,1
05/05/93,11:59:08,229614,2,GERALD PINE,,2
05/05/93,14:14:45,229615,2,MICHAEL SHARTIAG,,6
05/05/93,14:58:21,229616,2,MATT FLEMING,,
>Help: DOWNLOADING,
>Help: KEYWORD,6
05/05/93,15:17:33,229617,2,ALEX ZELL,,5
]Chinet not responding this afternoon.
ALEX ZELL,
05/05/93,16:25:07,229618,2,ZULFI SAYLA,northbrook/ill,
05/05/93,18:42:50,229619,2,KEN STOX,,2
05/05/93,21:10:21,229620,2,JEFF ROSTON,chgo,11
]s did not work for me to pause the scrolling. I don't know why.
JEFF ROSTON,
05/05/93,23:57:14,229621,2,MICHAEL SHARTIAG,,8
05/06/93,09:58:04,229622,2,LARRY GLASSMAN,,1
05/06/93,10:19:09,229623,2,FERNANDO VALDERRAMA,MIAMI/FL,
>Help: DOWD,
05/06/93,10:31:10,229624,2,FERNANDO VALDERRAMA,,6
05/06/93,10:40:06,229625,2,FERNANDO VALDERRAMA,,4
]I am looking for any XMODEM source in C . I do not want to reinvent
the wheel !!!! if you know of any bbs i can use to download or any
other source for this public domain protocol, please let me know
FERNANDO VALDERRAMA,
05/06/93,12:04:02,229626,2,DAVID JOHNSON,,3
05/06/93,13:20:17,229627,2,STEVE AIDIKONIS,,
E#46233,11
05/06/93,15:16:06,229628,2,FERNANDO VALDERRAMA,,1
]PLEASE TELL ME WHERE I CAN FIND SOME XMODEM SUBROUTINE IN C THAT I
CAN INCORPORATE INTO MY PROGRAM
FERNANDO VALDERRAMA,
05/06/93,22:28:43,229629,2,BILL MATTSON,,2
05/06/93,23:23:33,229630,2,WAYNE SPATH,lake bluff,6
05/07/93,00:12:30,229631,2,MATT FLEMING,,3
05/07/93,01:01:23,229632,2,NORB DEMBINSKI,,2
05/07/93,02:12:32,229633,2,RANDY IMAGEN,,9
05/07/93,11:43:03,229634,2,DONNIE STUHLMAN,,
05/07/93,15:24:37,229635,2,LANE LARRISON,,7
05/07/93,17:40:00,229636,2,PETE EVERETT,Addison IL,2
05/07/93,19:42:12,229637,2,ROBERT E. WILLIAMS,CHICAGO/ILL.,8
05/07/93,23:56:09,229638,2,ROY LIPSCOMB,,1
05/08/93,00:19:01,229639,2,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,
46230 05/03/93 WARD CHRISTENSEN => JORN BARGER: "R/HAAALP"
46231 05/03/93 WARD CHRISTENSEN => MICHAEL SHARTIAG: "R/TAPE IMAGE BACKUPS"
46232 05/03/93 WARD CHRISTENSEN => MICHAEL SHARTIAG: "R/IDE SPEED/TIMING/LAPTOPS"
46233 05/06/93 STEVE AIDIKONIS => ALL: "WANTED: CALENDAR DLL"

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Retrieving flagged msgs: C skips, K aborts.

Msg 46230 is 03 line(s) on 05/03/93 from WARD CHRISTENSEN
to JORN BARGER re: R/HAAALP

Randy doesn't call CBBS, but I'll forward your note to him. Try chinet
again maybe later Tuesday or maybe Wednesday. then again you didn't
give your ID, hope he can find your logon.

Msg 46231 is 28 line(s) on 05/03/93 from WARD CHRISTENSEN
to MICHAEL SHARTIAG re: R/TAPE IMAGE BACKUPS

 Tape backups seems an area with lots of "issues". For example, Colorado
didn't have an OS/2 backup, then suddenly they did - turns out they were
supplying Sytos. OK, how do you restore? You boot floppies, then restore,
right? NO! Turns out Sytron made it a "PM" (Presentation Manager) appl,
so you have to have a "full, running OS/2" to do the restore! Sheesh!
 This AM I tried running my 486, it told me my QEMM wasn't registered.
So, I renamed QEMM386.sys, and restored from a backup, and compared - sure
enough it was trashed. CHKDSK told me C: was pretty hosed - turned out
TWO sectors got clobbered in the FAT, AND, FAT #2 was "synchronized" (often
I'm able to restore FAT 1 from FAT 2). OK, clean a few things up, manually
"e5" (erase, but without touching the FAT) the cross-linked stuff, zero the
FAT sectors that were hosed. Now it says my tape backup device doesn't
exist. OK, re-boot, try again, it is OK. BUT the tape isn't indexed.
OK, index the tape. Takes 50 minutes. Come back: "a severe write error
occurred on the hard disk, retry?". RATS! What IS going wrong here!
 I turned off Smartdrv write cacheing, seeing if that will help.
 -
 Back to your problem: unfortunately, a block-by-block backup wasn't that
popular or that good an idea because you could only restore to the SAME
drive, AND you couldn't have any new "bad spots", because by NOT being a
logical copy, it couldn't get around bad blocks, etc. Also it was much
more difficult, if not impossible, to restore a single file.
 What I suggest you do is, for example, write your FAT using Norton's
DiskEdit, i.e. you go in with alt-F1 and that indicates Fat 1, then write
to a file (say, fat.1) on A:.
 As to really doing such an image copy, I can't think of a way, sorry,
other than hokeying up a directory and FAT to "point" to chunks of the
disk "or something". Hmmm.Nothing real obvious comes to mind.

Msg 46232 is 02 line(s) on 05/03/93 from WARD CHRISTENSEN
to MICHAEL SHARTIAG re: R/IDE SPEED/TIMING/LAPTOPS

 As to whose BIOS they licensed, could you boot debug and go searching,
it might have a Phoenix or AMI copyright or something.

Msg 46233 is 06 line(s) on 05/06/93 from STEVE AIDIKONIS
to ALL re: WANTED: CALENDAR DLL

I need to find a windows dll that will allow a display of a monthly
calender, with the ability to click on a particular date, with the
date getting passed back to my app. I've been scanning cserve & other
BBSs, along with commercial packages to no avail. I wouldn't mind if
this were one component of a general function package. Any ideas, please
leave me a message here.
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