PE> Bob, do you want me to hook you into the Z3DIFF and NODEDIFF
 PE> TIC echos? They get one file in them each, each week. They
 PE> won't serve any great purpose, except to give you some live
 PE> TICs. BFN. Paul.

  ROFL!

  Thank you but no thanks. I'll make do with dead TICs.

  I wish you were kinky for Windows instead of UNIX; I might be able
to get some value out of this...

  Why don't you want to run a BBS under Windows/unix? That's a *real*
challenge, and you'd end up with something useful you could run across
the BBS/Internet. I think it's time you faced the fact that Windows is
here to stay, Paul...

... [later ... I have a problem]

  The format of your TIC file (as shown in TMLjoin) is:

Area SPECIALR
Origin 3:711/934.12
From 3:711/934.12
File BORING.ZIP
Desc An incredibly boring file
Pw wallyburger

  Is this right? Are you *sure* there is no name in the TIC?

  It would make more sense if the Origin field was the fido number and
the From field was "Bob Lawrence".

  As it stands, I can identify the sender by the point number or the
whole fido address, but what happens if you want to give access to
someone who is not one of your points?

... [later still...]

  I'd like to send a message back to the sendee. How can I do that?

  TIC is automatic, but there are many ways it can fail. You don't
give a stuff if it works or not, so there's no point in sending you
messages, but it would be nice to send back a report to the sendee,
to let him know if it worked or what he did wrong. This would be very
useful for Dieter, as long as I used short words and simple sentences.

  I'm hoping it will be quick enough to do online (1 second or less).
Can I just put a message in a directory and have it sent off with the
mail?

Regards,
Bob
 
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