Hi Paul

 RM> Yes, but manually. Bink would do it by itself at 10.00pm if 
 RM> I told it to, but I don't run it nonstop, so I want it to 
 RM> dial out only when I run it at odd times. It's these 
 RM> "manual" dial facilities that I hate.

 PE> It's simple, you go into Binkley and go Alt-M, then enter your boss's 
 PE> address.

Telemate does it much better...
 
 PE> If you get sick of doing that, set up a batch 
 PE> file, which first of all does a "squish poll 3:xxx/yyy" 
 PE> followed by starting Binkley.

Haven't seen that one. Buried in the manual somewhere, I spose.
Lazy me.
 
 RM> point. Unless I have written some crash replies, in which 
 RM> case Bink sends them automatically, I gotta *type* "alt-M 
 RM> 61:6800/20.0{at}Worldnet". There is a nodelist sysop name 

 PE> Actually, I think the problem might be that you haven't got 
 PE> a "Change Hold Normal 3:xxx/yyy" in your route.cfg.

Another stranger hidden in the manual.



Probably my main whinge with this stuff, actually, is that you must
rtfm (actually, rt *entire* fm) to get anything to work at all. And
that's 3 fm's - Bink, Squish, Golded. I'm used to self-driving
programs like Telix or Telemate, where you just have to read bits
of the fm to fill in details of stuff already spoon-fed to you by
the menu system. None of Bink, Golded, or Squish is menu driven,
and none has even an installation program to interactively set up a
functioning system. I'm in this game to read and write mail, not
read fm's.

 

Cheers
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