-=> Quoting Nancy Backus to Ben Carpenter <=-

 -=> Quoting Ben Carpenter to Nancy Backus on 05-10-04  21:30 <=-

 NB> My apologies for the tardiness of my reply...  I've gotten way behind,
 NB> and am still working at catching up, slowly!

 No problem I get behind at times due to work schedule.

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 BC> If you are reading this let it be known I telnetted to CHOWDA Net and
 BC> uploaded this with Zmodem.

 NB> Did you do it in Dos or in Windows?

 Yes
 
 BC> Like I have mentioned before the use of Zmodem when telnetting
 BC> depends on the cooperation of the telnet client with the file transfer
 BC> protocols. The telnet client must work with the transfer protocols
 BC> whether it be Zmodem or Kermit or other protocols.  Craigs board has
 BC> been working fine for me using a telnett connection and Zmodem. 
 BC> Until I got this telnet client I had troubles with getting Zmodem
 BC> uploads to work. As you mentioned dialup worked fine this indicates
 BC> that it is not on Craigs end but on your end.

 NB> Which telnet client is that?  And is it for DOS?

 I use Telix for Windows as my telnet client.  Windows not DOS.

 NB> I have no problems in Dos with downloads at Chowda, just the uploads
 NB> when _in_dos_and_in_telnet_.
 
 I never tried to telnet in DOS.


 BC> Now another problem has jumped in to harass me.  Some time after the
 BC> first of the year my Zmodem downloads from all BBS's (be they BWave
 BC> or QWK) are not dated correctly.  At first I thought maybe a setting
 BC> or a file with my telnet client got grungded, but I had a copy on
 BC> another computer and it behaves the same way, so there must be a date
 BC> problem that run out.  Oh well so is life.

 NB> I don't have that* problem at least... :)  (Perhaps it's a windows
 NB> problem?)

 It was a problem between the chair and the keyboard.
 
 BC> I know that you are a DOS person, but I do windows as there were a
 BC> lot of thing I could not get software in DOS for.  But I still do a
 BC> lot of things in DOS and I have close to a hundred batch files that do
 BC> a lot of work for me to this day.  A lot of my applications (even Win
 BC> apps) are run from within a batch file that allows me to do what I
 BC> call house keeping either before or after the application.

 NB> I know that there are lots of people who have moved on to windows
 NB> applications for all sorts of things.  I really have no desire to be
 NB> using windows, although I have had to use it for a few things... Fonts
 NB> for lecture presentation transparencies mostly... and I did end up
 NB> taking my GRE in Windows with a mouse, and still* did a credible job
 NB> on the test despite the handicap.  Point and click generally frustrates
 NB> me, as it often moves, just before the click... and keyboard shortcuts
 NB> aren't always* available (like with my GRE!).  I'll stay with Dos for
 NB> absolutely as much as I can, thank you.  :)

 I started out with a Radio Schack MOD III TRSDOS then on to MOD 4.
 When I got a PC it had DOS 6.0 and Win 3.1  I intermixed the two and
 still do to some extent but do mostly windows now.  I run my Bluewave
 in a DOS window.  In fact all most all my DOS work is done in a DOS
 window.

 NB> My wizard hubby much prefers a Unix system to Windows, and assures me
 NB> that I would too... I'm inclined to believe him, even though I know
 NB> fairly little about actually operating totally within a Unix system,
 NB> as he has put various unix magic spells already on this computer that I
 NB> use, and my normal text editor is MicroEMACS, a dos version of a Unix
 NB> editor, which I like very much.  It's a stable operating system,
 NB> unlike windows, as well...  So, if we couldn't have Dos, that's
 NB> probably the direction we'd be going...

 I have looked a Unix systems a little but have not gotten the fever
 yet to try it.  Our computer club has a Unix SIG but I have not gone to
 it.

... Ben    

... The last thing I saw was this Big Blue Wave!
--- Blue Wave/DOS v2.30