BJ> Ah....  The last I knew, the telnet was broken in the CVS archives.  
 BJ> Bo has a workaround to get the telnet stuff working, but the last I 
 BJ> knew we hadn't gotten the CVS archives "fixed" for this.

 MK> Okay.  I get the feeling I am jumping the gun here.  I 
 MK> think I should work on getting transfers and the such 
 MK> to work plus maybe some utilities for writing 
 MK> configuration files.  It would be nice to have 
 MK> something to simplify this procedure.  I did start 
 MK> monkeying around with sqafix but it is whining about 
 MK> some address and won't tell me which one.  I put that 
 MK> aside for now and am concentrating on transfers.

Well, the telnet and serial port code was being worked on by Wes. 
Unfortunately, Wes has been very busy with work and family issues
recently....

As to sqafix wining about an address, there are two locations that need
addresses.  First, those that can request echos from you (including your
own system if you want), which are defined with the Node lines.  The second
is the Uplink line(s) that define one or more location where you obtain
your feed(s) from....  Oh, and of course, there is the address line that
defines your primary fidonet address....  I'd have to see the
non-informative error message to suggest a fix.....  I do notice that I
ended up giving full paths to various files (like backbone.na) because I
never got the relative file names figured out (I assume for proper
subdirectories).....  There may be a bug in SqaFix's directory parsing and
appending....

 BJ>  Well, I think you might also consider it slighly unixy if you 
 BJ> were used to using Unix befor X-Windows.....

 MK> How about VAX/VMS?  Does that count?  That was my 
 MK> starting point.  Unix - Solaris actually - was a walk 
 MK> in the park after that.

....  HP 2000E [Basic]....  CDC 6000, Cyber 70 and 170 series
[SCOPE, NOS/BE, NOS], Prime 350 / 550, Vax 11/780 [VMS and BSD], .....  I
better stop this.......


 BJ> For SqqFix.Cfg, see the documentation in the last DOS / OS/2 release 
 BJ> of SqaFix (99b8) and then add the info from my 
 BJ> sample SqaFix.Cfg file 
 BJ> and related log documentation.....

 MK> I got one from Bo in netmail plus found one in a DOS 
 MK> archive.  I can't seem to get either to work.  See my 
 MK> previous comments.

Ok.  Then you should have a good base to work from.  This reminds me of
what I didn't get done with in SqaFix.....  It compiles, but there are
still a few things needing work to get things cleaned up in a proper
way.....

Take care.....

Bob Jones, 1:343/41



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