GA> Hi Paul, Sorry I have been so long in responding to your last message and
GA> stock conversion C source which you kindly wrote for me. In the interim I
GA> have been trying to compile it with various shareware compilers with no
GA> success. A local Sysop compiled it for me yesterday with Borlands C++ I

What compilers did you use?  You should get a hold of "EMX 0.9a"
for your C compiler needs.  It is very good (and free).

GA> think. I have run the prog with some sample data but it doesn't do 
GA> anything?
GA> i.e. the prog loads and sits there, pressing any key or typing in a string
GA> gets a response of (null). Ctrl C exits the prog.

You have to put your input data into a file, e.g. in.txt, and then
run it like this:

aus2met out.txt

GA> I have tried to FREQ from your board with frustrating results! Devil.slt
GA> stops on "hello" I think and will then drop carrier unless
I hit enter, it

You need to give me a date and a time for me to be able to check
this.

GA> will then carry on but fails to u/l the .REQ file. I have also tried the
GA> Complex.slt as late as this a.m. (03/11/95) <<--You will approve of this

Well that a.m. there were a couple of calls from 666:666/666, 
but the file that was being uploaded was called "ul02c703.req"
instead of the correct "02c703a6.req".  That was at 10:44.
There was an earlier one at 10:25 which sent a file called
"upload02.req".  Are you using complex.slt from devil261?
Are you running under Telix for DOS?  I use Telix315, available
for download from the same place as DEVIL261.

GA> format!, Complex seems to get further but bails out after successfully
GA> sending the .REQ file, it waits a little while after u/l then: REQ file for
GA> 3:711/934 uploaded without error. It is safe to delete it. REQ file for
GA> 3:711/934 exists. Delete it [Y/n]. After a short time regardless of my
GA> reponse I lose the carrier.

If you see a file get uploaded called "ul02c703.req" or similar,
you know that something has gone wrong, because that's not the
correct filename.

GA> Obviously it would be best to FREQ from you if I can get it working. Thanks

I think your Telix setup might be exceeding some bounds of the
program, perhaps your upload directory is a path greater than
50 characters or something like that.  Also, try using "simple.slt"
instead of "devil.slt" and see if you have better luck there, as
there's a lot less code involved in that.

Remember to give me a date + time for each of your experiments so
that I can check my log.

It also might be helpful if you installed Telix315 from scratch into
a separate directory to your main telix, get rid of the telix 
environment variable.  That way you get a simple setup, which 
hopefully one of the 3 scripts can cope with.  I think it's worth
the effort to set up, that way whenever you see someone say "FREQ
xyz from abc - I accept FREQs from anyone" you at least have the 
technology to get it.  BFN.  Paul.
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