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to: JOHN GUILLORY
from: ED KOON
date: 2014-10-04 19:47:22
subject: Re: Gateway 2000

> ->  JG> --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5
> 
>     Cool, I was kinda wondering what it looked like... ;-)  
Since I got
> everything moved over to winserver, I had kinda wondered on 
a few places
> if it was coming out right or what... Didn't get any 
complaints, so I
> figured must have something semi-right.  I'm hoping to get 
my AUP
> re-enabled and upgrade to the latest v7. 
> 
> -> Ed "DOC" Koon - Sysop
> 
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> (1:123/140)
> 
> I really wished they'd release an update to PXW!  There's a 
few things
> I've got working flakey... I just appeared to get my tic 
files working.
> I don't know enough on the tic format to know if the problem 
lies on my
> uplink's processor, a configuration, or pxw's import.  It 
really don't
> matter though, because I've used TICK (the original program) 
and had no
> issues with marc's system before, nor did I have problems 
with robert's
> system.  Now, most of Robert's tic files auto-import fine, 
while marc's
> act like they don't even exist... No errors, no messages, 
just acts like
> there are no files in the tic directory!  I just wrote a 
small pascal
> program that does a few things.  It looks for a line that 
says "Seenby
> 1:396/60" and if its there, it basically deletes that line.  
It also
> looks for the password line (Pw password), if it finds it, 
it changes
> the password to upper case just in case (why oh why my 
uplinks all use
> lowercase and pxconfig only allows uppercase!)  Last, it 
renames the
> .tic file to all lower case.  Don't ask why, but these are 
the only
> differences I can find in robert and marc's tic files...   I 
have a few
> other miissues... When compiling the nodelist on windows/xp, 
it 
> crashes with a divide by zero at the end, on windows 8, it 
can compile
> all the way with out  2012. It's old outdated code nobody 
uses any longer. 

Regards,  Doc.  errors... Don't know...

I doubt Santronics will ever update PXW and WC7 has been in 
beta since 2012. It's old outdated code nobody uses any 
longer. 

Regards, Doc. 
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