Hello Bill!

On 27 May 94, you said to Geoff Armstrong:

BG> Geoff, at 11:00 on Thu, May 26 1994, you wrote to Bill Grimsley ...

BG>> If you write S95=47 to NVRAM,

GA>> I have done that now. PS I read in HS_MODEMS that the
GA>> undocumented ATS95=127 gives even more info.

BG> The S95 register is bit-mapped, and will accept a series of values up
BG> to 256, although the earlier Rockwells had some registers reserved.
BG> Seems that Zoom's V.FC is now using them. Wonder what it reports?

Still haven't looked. But I will as soon as I finish this mail session.

GA>> I will try it as soon as I quit playing with my new
GA>> CDROM

BG> Did you get a raise, win Lotto, or roll a drunk?  ;-)

Lots of overtime this pay. So I spent it. Got a Soundblaster 16 Discovery
Pack (16 bit stereo sound board, Panasonic double speed CDROM, 7,951
manuals and disks.

The audio CD player is great! If you put a CD in, you can enter the disc
title and song titles if you wish. Then you can select which tracks to play
by name. And this is the good bit. When you put that CD in again next time,
it recognises it as one it knows about, puts the title and song titles on
the "LED Display" of the pseudo-CD player, and uses the same play
list you used last time. All without further intervention by me. It must
take a "fingerprint" of the disc with number of tracks, track
lengths, MSGID's etc. Then it knows to associate that
"fingerprint" with the title/song title and playlist. Magic. It
must use a computer or summfin.

BG>> binkley.log will tell you exactly what EC protocol and data
BG>> compression was being used.

GA>> I've given up on that chunk of shit. Keeps hanging the modem up on
GA>> connect. The exact same init string in FD works fine. I don't
GA>> know.

BG> Why use an init$ at all in Bink?  Just ATZ will do fine, once you've
BG> initialised the modem itself. Here are the relevant bits of mine if
BG> you need to use Bink ...

BG> Port      1
BG> Baud      38400
BG> Carrier   80
BG> Init      ATZ|~~ATH0|
BG> TermInit  ATZ|
BG> Prefix    ATDT
BG> Answer    ATA|
BG> [ ... ]
BG> LockBaud 1
BG> AutoBaud
BG> MaxTime  60
BG> Timeout  20

I'll try it again one day. Thanx. But to get FD to do what I want, I've
done the following.

1) Wrote a program to change the event time in EVENT.FD to two minutes from now.

2) Set FD to exit on receipt of mail.

3) Run a PCTools Scheduled event at 03:25 to run a windows program that
checks if my batch file is running from yesterday. If it is, it quits. If
not it runs GETMAIL.PIF that runs GETMAIL.BAT that does this :

a) set the EVENT.FD file to poll in two minutes (ie 03:27)

b) start FD, which will run the event at 03:27, then exit if mail was
received. If no mail received, it'll stay running, with the next event set
for 03:27 the next day.

I had to write PollTime.EXE (DOS program) and RunOne.EXE (windows program)
myself. What a pain. Just to do the equivilent of "BT MAIL".

Sea Ewes are round!
Geoff.

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