CBBS(R) 4.0.2a 04/19/89 21:41:14 Y/N: want CBBS "1st time user" info?^U ?^U ?^U ?n;ward;christensen;odraw;;fullc;piss Logging name to disk... You are caller 204808; next msg =41708; 478 active msgs. Prev. call 04/18/89 @ 22:27, next msg was 41703 Recording logon for next time. Use FULL? to check assignments ?^U ?xxxxx "Mine" command checking for msgs TO you, ^K to abort. >Function:?dir c:log;dir c:killed;dir summary;type-30 log,ward c;or;*;short LOG. 4 KILLED. 52 SUMMARY. 30 04/18/89,06:09:58,204757,X,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, E#41700,2 04/18/89,06:19:59,204758,1,BILL WOLFF,,2 04/18/89,22:28:25,204780,9,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,4 04/18/89,23:08:14,204781,1,SCOTT FREEMAN,,41 04/19/89,04:36:05,204782,2,JERRY OLSEN,, E#41703,10 04/19/89,04:55:38,204783,1,JIM EGAN,,12 04/19/89,05:17:34,204784,2,ERIC BOHLMAN,, E#41704,4 04/19/89,06:25:22,204785,1,JIM FLANAGAN,,2 04/19/89,07:03:46,204786,2,DENNIS STAHL,,1 04/19/89,08:13:37,204787,2,ALEX ZELL,, 04/19/89,08:44:59,204788,2,ALEX ZELL,, E#41705, 04/19/89,09:58:51,204789,1,ANDY SHAPIRO,,3 04/19/89,10:13:57,204790,3,PHIL SCHUMAN,,1 04/19/89,11:38:30,204791,1,DAN FUHRMAN,,9 04/19/89,11:59:51,204792,1,ADAM DADA,,13 04/19/89,12:29:26,204793,3,JOHN KAIP,CHICAGO, >Help: TYPE??,16 04/19/89,12:46:59,204794,2,SCOTT ALBRECHT,, 04/19/89,13:47:44,204795,1,ROBERT JOHNSON,, >Help: XMODEM,9 ]g ROBERT JOHNSON, 04/19/89,14:15:19,204796,1,TROY COLBERT,Chicago/ Illinois,11 ]Hello! I am the newest user of this system. I would appreciate very much if you would call me sometime and tell me what's going on. TROY COLBERT, 04/19/89,14:36:34,204797,1,WALT FUHRIMAN,,26 04/19/89,15:31:46,204798,1,TROY COLBERT,,2 04/19/89,15:39:39,204799,1,KATE HARTE,chicago/ IL,28 04/19/89,16:07:57,204800,1,MICHAEL MCNALLY,,15 04/19/89,17:32:25,204801,1,PHIL JERN,,2 04/19/89,19:20:12,204802,2,GARY ELFRING,, E#41706,7 04/19/89,19:30:45,204803,1,CHARLIE SCHMIDT,glencoe/ il., 04/19/89,19:50:27,204804,1,CHARLIE SCHMIDT,, >Help: RETREIVE, >Help: SS, 04/19/89,20:47:09,204805,3,BILL WOLFF,,4 04/19/89,21:24:18,204806,2,DAVID GIBBS,,0 04/19/89,21:30:49,204807,1,BYRON SMITH,, E#41707,10 04/19/89,21:41:18,204808,9,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, 41703 04/19/89 JERRY OLSEN => ALL: "NONSTANDARD DISK FORMATS" 41704 04/19/89 ERIC BOHLMAN => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "R/STILLWATERS BBS LIST?" 41705 04/19/89 ALEX ZELL => WARD: "R/STILLWATERS BBS LIST" 41706 04/19/89 GARY ELFRING => JERRY OLSON: "NONSTANDARD DISK FORMATS" 41707 04/19/89 BYRON SMITH => WARD CHRISTENSEN: "HASHING USERS (EH!)" - End of summary - Retrieving flagged msgs: C skips, K aborts. Msg 41703 is 16 line(s) on 04/19/89 from JERRY OLSEN to ALL re: NONSTANDARD DISK FORMATS I need to code a program to read/write and format disks on an MS-DOS machine for disks destined for (or received from) an MCS typesetter. After a search through my reference library and trips to three decent software-related bookstores, the best I've come up with is "this is specialized subject; consult a manual on the subject." Ah, that's what I was trying to do! Any leads on such reference material (preferably specific titles so I can have a store order it for me). Or, have you had experience in such work and are you willing to chat voice about it? (At this point, I'm less concerned about the specifics of MCS disks than with exactly what's expected in terms of coding requirements. But if anyone worked with MCS disks, so much the better.) I of course can pick up e-mail here. But if voice would be useful, either leave your number, call me at 312.939.3300 (weekday afternoons), or if you prefer to have me call you and don't want to make your number public, pls leave me a msg at The Advocate, 312.939.4411 (300/1200/2400, 24 hrs.). Both phones are in the South Loop, Chicago, area. Thanx. Msg 41704 is 04 line(s) on 04/19/89 from ERIC BOHLMAN to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: R/STILLWATERS BBS LIST? The list would be a good replacement for the SONKA list. They update it monthly. At last count, they had about five sortings of the list. The list can be downloaded (no hassles) from them at 769-4608, which is Rogers Park or thereabouts. Msg 41705 is 01 line(s) on 04/19/89 from ALEX ZELL to WARD re: R/STILLWATERS BBS LIST The Stillwaters list has been uploaded to your files on Chinet. Msg 41706 is 10 line(s) on 04/19/89 from GARY ELFRING to JERRY OLSON re: NONSTANDARD DISK FORMATS I've done some work reading and writing Alphatype Bertholder type- setting disks and I think I did an MCS one. The best source for information is the spec sheet for the floppy disk controller chip in your machine. You may also run into problems with what an MSDOS machine can actually do. The floppy controller chip in a PC is incapable of reading Alphatype disks for instance. (As a matter of fact only ONE floppy controller now made can read those disks.) If I remember right MCS disks have some sort of copy protection in them. Just find the part number for the floppy controller, and then get a spec and application note for it. Msg 41707 is 20 line(s) on 04/19/89 from BYRON SMITH to WARD CHRISTENSEN re: HASHING USERS (EH!) Hi Ward. Well, on the hashing of users - gee I really dont know what i would have done to it. I have it set up to where u have to have a password to be able to log on and have made such changes. What u have told me makes me wonder if somewhere down the line its adding the "assistant" character to the name hex character add up and makeing for interesting things. When a user first calls in i have it write the users name in the log, but if it couldn't be found it is written with the assistant flag written as a U. Then he/she enters a 1-5 character password which i route throug the hashing routine and write into the disk LOG. also, i keep the original ascii password, then the hashed values written into the log. this way, i can tell what the oriiginal password was, and then when i find that the user is a real person (have had a great deal of problem with the younger kids with the alias names of each other and ME!) and then i go back in with find command and add the V in the assistant flag position, and the hashed value in the password field. Hmm. guess will have to take the time to look it over. u want i should send you that part of the pgm so u can see what i did??? (i commented it all). Byron Smith Tulare CBBS and RCp/m since 7/85 209 685 0306 dup. chars. >Function:?