RS> Yes it can, you just dont know how to do it. Its a little messy
 RS> but you essentially just have a string with all the possible
 RS> ascii values in it and select the one you want from that set.

  You're not helping me, Rod... you're just showing that you know more
about programming than me, and that's no big deal! The Lebanese kid
next door knows more about programming than me, and he's got an IQ of
80. My *dog* knows more about programming as me (at least she's got
the sense to leave it alone).

  So why don't you either write "I know more about programming than
you... nya, nya nya!" or help. If you don't want to help, that's okay;
I'll just fast-forward through the crap, but don't write stuff that's
meant not-to-help... it only gives me the shits with you and I'm
already overstocked in shit.

 RS> You can even do it the other way, have an external tiny prog
 RS> which calculates the CRC and produces a file which has the
 RS> stuff you want to send, including the CRC, and just have
 RS> Telemate spawn to DOS, run that CRC calculator, return from DOS
 RS> and load that file with the calculated value in it and do
 RS> whatever it likes with that data, including send it out the
 RS> comm port.

  You see? I don't have a clue what that means. You raise my hopes but
don't tell me how to *actually* do it. Spawn? Is there a spawn
command? Is it anything like the fuck-me command? I'm *already*
fucked.

  Am I misrepresenting you? Are you sincere but a hopeless teacher? Or
are you so insecure that you have to keep showing me that you know
more about porogramming than me. I admit it. Anyone does!

 BL> Telemate script sux!

 RS> Bob loves wild exaggeration |-)

  You noticed!

 RS> Its better to go the other way actually. Use Salt to do some
 RS> useful work, then when you are comfortable with it, move on to
 RS> C and add the fancy stuff like pointers which arent in Salt.
 RS> The fundamental problem with starting with C is that its a non
 RS> trivial task to say do a FREQer in C from scratch. Its much
 RS> more work than doing a Salt script. Buckleys chance that you
 RS> would ever complete it with your impatience IMO. 

  Your advice on this subject has been spot-on so far, so I'll take it
and stick to SALT for the time being.

 BL> The inability to handle ascii seems to be basic.

 RS> It doesnt even have that inability, Bob just thinks it has.

  I meant in the context that Paul was talking about: using i=241 and
then itoa i,s and put s to send the `ñ' character directly. It won't
do it. I had to `invent' the 256 character string idea for myself,
after I saw someone do the same thing with hex numbers. And bloody
Telemate won't even do that!

 RS> I doubt thats insurmountable either. Most likely thats just
 RS> triggering the use of the special reserved ones like the
 RS> transmission of the password. Thats fixable too by escaping
 RS> that particular value. Thats all doable. Even if Bob doesnt
 RS> know how to.

  You don't help, Rod. That statement is as much help as a second
dick. You've even taken to speaking to me in the third person. Try
harder boy, or give up and go away.

Regards,
Bob
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