PE> He means, from the Telemate script, run a dos program called
 PE> xyz, which takes as parameters "Paul Edwards" "Ten Minute
 PE> Limit" 3:711/934 etc, and then creates the HELLO structure,
 PE> plus does the CRC calculation, and writes the whole lot to a
 PE> file called temp.txt, and then the Telemate script can read the
 PE> files temp.txt and send it to the modem. You could probably
 PE> even do an ASCII upload of the file.

  Aha! I hadn't thought of writing it to a temp.txt file! That'd work.
I could write it in QBasic. Jeeze! That'd beat the hell out of the
trouble I'm having with Telemate, and give me some practice in a
real language. I don't like Telemate much.

 PE> Yes, you really shouldn't try to take on something more than a
 PE> small chunk at a time, you threw in the towel twice on this so
 PE> far already, remember? 

  I ran out of inspiration, but in fact I'm the most persistent 
bastard I know. If I can find a way around 00, I've got this thing 
by the short hairs. Everything else works. 

 PE> It's a fundamental flaw, not having the equivalent of BASIC's
 PE> CHR$() and ASC() functions. Incredible flaw.

  Yair.

 PE> He is saying that you have somehow managed to get "^#" or
 PE> something into the string, which, when sent to the com port as
 PE> a string, will replace "^#" with your password for the BBS you
 PE> are dialing. Unlikely to be your problem. BFN.

  Yair. It's ^& that sends the password, but that's no problem. It
only happens if you PUT the two characters together. If you send them
separately it doesn't apply.

  If I can't find a way around 00, I'll do it in basic.

Regards,
Bob
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