CBBS(R) 4.0.2a 04/04/89 21:37:19 Y/N: want CBBS "1st time user" info?^U ?^U ?^U ?n;ward;christensen;odraw;;fullc;piss Logging name to disk... You are caller 204386; next msg =41645; 468 active msgs. Prev. call 04/04/89 @ 00:27, next msg was 41640 Recording logon for next time. Use FULL? to check assignments ?^U ?xxxxx "Mine" command checking for msgs TO you, ^K to abort. >Function:?dir c:log;dir c:killed;dir summary;type-30 log,ward c;or;*;short LOG. 11 KILLED. 127 SUMMARY. 30 7,204329,9,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, 04/02/89,23:12:22,204330,X,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, 04/03/89,08:47:33,204331,2,DENNIS STAHL,,5 04/04/89,00:27:46,204358,9,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, E#41640, E#41641,8 04/04/89,00:53:23,204359,1,QQCEDRIC TUTTLE,, 04/04/89,00:55:04,204360,1,CEDRIC TUTTLE,, 04/04/89,05:42:20,204361,2,PETE JONES,,1 04/04/89,07:02:04,204362,2,DENNIS STAHL,,2 04/04/89,10:16:53,204363,1,ANDY SHAPIRO,,5 04/04/89,10:38:06,204364,2,RICH KURTZ,,9 04/04/89,11:16:34,204365,2,PAUL STREETER,, E#41642,12 04/04/89,12:01:03,204366,1,GRANT KILLEY,, E#41643,11 04/04/89,12:21:15,204367,3,PETER BIERMAN,, 04/04/89,13:04:52,204368,3,DONNIE STUHLMAN,,6 04/04/89,14:46:34,204369,2,DENNIS STAHL,,3 04/04/89,15:30:14,204370,1,BOB CLARKE,,2 04/04/89,15:54:03,204371,2,JIM ANDERSON,,2 04/04/89,16:08:39,204372,2,BILL TANEY,,1 04/04/89,16:16:19,204373,1,GEORGE HOPKINS,GREENSBORO/ NC,3 04/04/89,16:45:16,204374,1,RICHARD GOZDAL,,4 04/04/89,16:58:01,204375,2,JAMES SCHMIDT,,1 04/04/89,18:24:31,204376,1,DAN SEIBOLD,,2 04/04/89,18:50:14,204377,2,DAVID GIBBS,,2 04/04/89,19:05:13,204378,1,DAVID ARATA,hoffman estateas,11 04/04/89,19:15:28,204379,1,KEVIN KEYSER,,15 04/04/89,19:40:43,204380,2,JAMES SCHMIDT,, E#41644,2 04/04/89,20:10:59,204381,2,JIM POLOUS,,3 04/04/89,20:30:18,204382,3,MURRAY ARNOW,,2 04/04/89,20:59:28,204383,1,EDGAR COUDAL,,7 ]Ward...lots of line noise and weird stuffE JAMES SCHMIDT: "R/PC HORROR STORIES" 41641 04/04/89 WARD CHRISTENSEN => GRANT KILLEY: "R/CONSULTING FIRM WANTED" 41642 04/04/89 PAUL STREETER => ALL: "NOT QUITE A HORROR STORY" 41643 04/04/89 GRANT KILLEY => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "R/CONSULTING FIRM WANTED" 41644 04/04/89 JAMES SCHMIDT => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "IN DEFENSE OF RECOVER" - End of summary - Retrieving flagged msgs: C skips, K aborts. Msg 41640 is 05 line(s) on 04/04/89 from WARD CHRISTENSEN to JAMES SCHMIDT re: R/PC HORROR STORIES Oh yes, the "recover" story. Surely the MST COMMON PC horror story. HEY EVERYONE: ERASE the file "recover.com" (.exe?) from your disks - you won't EVERY want it! ;-) That IS a good one I'd forgotten! Msg 41641 is 03 line(s) on 04/04/89 from WARD CHRISTENSEN to GRANT KILLEY re: R/CONSULTING FIRM WANTED You might consider going to one of the computer clubs for a "private" consultant. What kind of machine, what kind of skills, are you looking for? Msg 41642 is 12 line(s) on 04/04/89 from PAUL STREETER to ALL re: NOT QUITE A HORROR STORY I was out of town last Friday and Saturday and neglected to check the answering machine long distance. When I got home there was a series of messages over the two days from two people at the 20th Century Railroad Club about an error message no one could figure out. The message was assumed to be from the mailing list/ticket order program I had written. The computer was (by good sense) left on overnight. The last message Saturday was "Stan came in and said that 'Error writing to device PRN' means turn the printer on." Happy ending. The young lady having most of the problem is an MVS programmer and would have understood "Probable user error. Fix and rerun." I could probably edit some Hammond organ music into that and sell it as a soap opera "All My Error Messages." Msg 41643 is 10 line(s) on 04/04/89 from GRANT KILLEY to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: R/CONSULTING FIRM WANTED Thanks for the idea but we prefer to stay with a firm so we have a little bit shorter "leash" on the consultant (been burned once too often). The basics are: porting 8085 asm and C to 68000, code is embedded real time so I need people with real time and systems exper. Host is MS-DOS for edit/compile and Applied Micro for emulation. Thanks Grant Msg 41644 is 20 line(s) on 04/04/89 from JAMES SCHMIDT to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: IN DEFENSE OF RECOVER Ward, Before you totally condemn RECOVER here is a legitimate use for it. The following batch file will scrub (delete all files and subdirectories) from a floppy diskette and do it faster than doing a format. This idea was presented in a recent issue of PC Magazine: IF "%1"==" GOTO syntax FOR %D IN (A: B: a: b:) DO IF %1==%D GOTO ok ECHO SCRUB can only be used on a Floppy Disk GOTO syntax :ok ECHO | RECOVER %1 > NUL DEL %1\FILE*.* > NUL GOTO EXIT :syntax ECHO Syntax . "SCRUB d:" PAUSE :exit : BTW on IBM DOS 4.01 it's RECOVER (.COM). James ;-) dup. chars. >Function:?