45716,05,09/13/92,WARD CHRISTENSEN,ALL
COLORADO TAPE DRIVES,
  Anyone have experience with these drives?  Specifically, I went from
a 120 to a 250, and I'm getting way too many errors on the 250M tapes-
on the order of 300, to as many as 1400.  I just bought a new 3M 2120
tape, and will format it to see how it does.
  Thanks for any ideas.
45717,04,09/13/92,WARD CHRISTENSEN,BILL MATTSON
32-BIT DEVELOPMENT,
  I have now sent off my order for the IBM workframe and Cset/2
compiler.  Got the books - WHEW!  47 pounds!  Actually a friend (Mike
Warot) liked 'em so well he bought 'em off of me and I ordered another
set of 'em.
45816,30,10/20/92,WARD CHRISTENSEN,GAYLAND BLOETHE
CBBS,
  No, heh heh, no multi-tasking here.  Curious what you observed that made
you think that...
  Scrolling too fast?  I thoughts about that have to do with comm packages:
most have a capture buffer with scroll-back capability - for example I
receive my entire CBBS "session" then scroll back to see what people
said - I can scroll back even when entering a msg (like now).
  The lack of screen pauses are to encourage quick reading - perhaps even
capturing and calling back...
  Nevertheless, while I don't like the stop-every-screen idea (control-S
works very nicely - at least if I'm in that mode I'd rat er it stop when
I want it to, instead of stopping in the middle of a sentence, etc),
THERE ARE SOME SOLUTIONS:
  -- If you want to read every msg since you last called, use the r command
and give a msg * which will read the first new msg since your last call.
Only one message.  Many/most will fit on one screen, or you can ^S to stop
to read.  Once the header has scrolled by, if you want to skip it, hit ^C.
Then when you want to read the next msg, just type "." - "." goes ahead
one message, "," goes back one.  If you have one you want to reply to,
type REPLY instead of . or , - that's. it.
  -- If you'd rather flag messages, just hit enter at any time, and CBBS
will ask you for "msg # or #;#;#" and you can type in the msg # you want
to retrieve, or several msg #'s separated by semicolons; and you don't have
to repeat the leading digits: 45816;7;21  would get 45816, 45817, 45821.
When CBBS says "A pause to flag last message" you can hit enter, and CBBS
will ask for this list of msg #'s, and you can sit as long as you want
(Well, CBBS will bug you in a minute or two to please go on) and type the
msg #'s.
  The main thing that is missing is the ability to continue reading the
next message after using the REPLY command.
  Hope this helps!  Thanks for your comments.
45916,12,11/30/92,WARD CHRISTENSEN,LARRY GLASSMAN
R/AUTHORS AND HISTORY,
  Wow!	Small world!  I'm doing X-windows programming, too!  Though
"not really" - there are some more experienced people than I, so I'm
just doing more routine "C" and they're doing the X-menus, etc.
  Audio cards: I'm interested to know if one can record real-time stereo
to hard disk, and could edit out the "pops" inherent in my old vinyl discs.
(grin).
  Wolfenstein: I bought it, but I don't have a sound board.  It is really
nice, eh?  The program is pretty nice.
  Nice hearin' from you.  When I said you "call in now and then", I didn't
mean "infrequently".
  I guess I was more thinking of the few and far-between msgs from you ;-)
  P.S. what Unix systems are you on?  I'm on an IBM Risc System 6000.
45917,05,11/30/92,WARD CHRISTENSEN,MICHAEL SHARTIAG
CACHE,
  Were you in CACHE way back when?  Think there would be an interest
in getting some of the "old timers" together for a 15th year CACHE
reunion?  Actually, maybe I should consolidate CBBS's 15th anniversary
party (Barnaby's on Touhy, 2:00 PM, Sat Feb 13) with a CACHE reunion!
  Hope you can join us.
46016,03,01/11/93,WARD CHRISTENSEN,DAVID JOHNSON
R/DISK CLEANUP,
  Any idea what the TSR overhead is - and how they keep track of the last
usage date of a file?
  Thanks!
46017,07,01/11/93,WARD CHRISTENSEN,KEN STOX
R/MODEM,
  hehe, could be!  Actually I have an HST that is merely in need of having
the power cord fixed, it shouldn't be that big a job.  I think they use
a standard DIN, so I can "finish the Chop Job Randy started" and cut the
cord completely and see what wires go where - even with one loose wire,
4 should be OK and 1 not, so I can figure what goes where.  I'll make
a note to at least put that on my to-do list!  Actually, a V-32 would
be nice, too!
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