PE> If you are using MSDOS, you chose the shithouse path.  
 PE> Frontdoor, Fmail and  Golded is the wise path.  If you use 
 PE> OS/2, then yeah, you have to go Bink + squish.  

 RM> And I suppose the setup procedure for FD and FM is easier? 
 RM> Anthony doesn't seem to think much of it.

It is a lot easier, but Anthony wouldn't know, he's never tried.  Alan has,
he seems to be happy.  I know I was when I was using that setup.

 RM> I still haven't worked out a fast way to get Bink to dial 
 RM> out. I can't use alt-Y anymore (now isn't that an easy 
 RM> command to remember!), as in my newest setup I'm not a 

 PE> Pardon?  What exactly do you want to do?  Pick up your 
 PE> daily mail?

 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.

It's simple, you go into Binkley and go Alt-M, then enter your boss's
address.  If you get sick of doing that, set up a batch file, which first
of all does a "squish poll 3:xxx/yyy" followed by starting
Binkley.

 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 

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

 PE> Pardon?  What's wrong with golded???

 RM> er.. golded is a msg reader/writer... bink is the terminal 
 RM> program...

I was still trying to figure out what you want to do.  You can do freqs and
mail from golded, and they will get automatically actioned by binkley.

 PE> You're a disturbed man, Roy.  Anyhow, once you've got it 
 PE> set up, stop stuffing around with it.

[various ravings of a disturbed man deleted]

Paul

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