PE>> Why don't you use "zip"?  It's freeware instead of
shareware, it's
 PE>> available on practically every environment you care to name, it
 PE>> comes with complete source code.  The "-9" is maximal
compression,
 PE>> the "-k" is make it PKZIP compatible (which I think just means
 PE>> uppercase all file names), as it's normally pkzip compatible
 PE>> anyway as far as I can tell.

 FM> OK. What version of PKZIP is it compatible with? I use 1.93 alpha for
 FM> zipping because at one time some BBSs hadn't upgraded past there, and
 FM> 2.04g for unzipping to cater for those who send me stuff. The earlier
 FM> 2.nn versions had *bad* bugs.

It's compatible with 2.04G.

 FM> Is it on your board? Called what? I'm not going to search FILES for it,
 FM> 'cos when I look for ZIP I get nearly every line .

I have sent you the zip.exe and unzip.exe directly out of my
dos path.  If you want the original archive etc, it's available
here, search for "info-zip".

 PE>> Yeah, can't hurt.  I checked your call this morning, and
 PE>> unfortunately it is taking a long time for you to send the
 PE>> YOOHOO in the first place.  After my modem returns a CONNECT,
 PE>> it takes 5 seconds before I receive your Yoohoo.  Compared
 PE>> with Brenton, who is taking about 2 seconds.  Bob is taking
 PE>> 6 seconds, and I thought he had the same modem as Brenton.

 FM> I have noticed the delay at this point, too and I dunno why - AFAIK my
 FM> telix script is now exactly as I got it from Brenton (restored after
 FM> those earlier fuckups with multiple sends) except for the directories
 FM> and, now, that delay commented out.

I think it's a problem with the Spirit modem actually.  

 FM> I'll take out those other 2 delays, and watch it carefully on the next
 FM> transmission to see if I can see where in the script the delay is coming
 FM> from.

If you are able to tell, you would probably see that the moment it
sends a yoohoo, it gets a reply almost instantaneously?

 FM> I thought you might have heard something in the secret sysop society.
 FM> There has since been a message from someone else which suggests to me
 FM> that it was Bernard himself who just didn't send that November stuff
 FM> until January. Or some system close to him.

I even deselected ZONE3_SYSOP et al.  The only sysop conference
I get is HUB711_800, which is for people who connect directly
to Dave.

BFN.  Paul.
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