46128,11,03/06/93,ANDY SHAPIRO,ALL DESKJET USERS CHEAP INK, Well, not cheap, REALLY, but close. INMAC (the company everyone seems to love to hate, including me) has a deal on high-capacity black printheads for the DJ series -- their catalog says "buy two for $47.50, get one free!" Well, after tax & shipping it was $55, but that's still pretty good for 3 high capacity units, and they arrived the next day. That works out to about $18.30 per cartridge, tax & shipping included; I don't know what they go for in Chicago, but the same cartridge would cost $38 EACH at our college bookstore. My advice? Order a few and stock up! 46129,11,03/08/93,WARD CHRISTENSEN,ROY LIPSCOMB R/FLASH: DAMAGE NOT FROM VIRUS, Gee, I just blew the last 4 days trying to get a tape drive going, perhaps I should blame THAT on Viri! Sadly, it was just the Scsi Blues, i.e. you can't just pick your controller, and your devices, and get 'em to work together. Examples: Archive tape drive will work with Sytos, but only with ASPI driver. Corel SCSI (software) complained that the ROM on my controller was too old. Another controller just was flakey. A third finally did it, (Adaptec) but only after removing the hard disk scsi controller and putting everything on one. (Well, the CD rom isn't working yet, haven't tried). Let me check my progress...hah, what timing, backup 100% complete, rewinding to do the verify... Here's hoping! 46228,03,05/01/93,JOE SEROCKI,ALL ESDI CONTROLLERS WANTED,OPIE I am in need of some XT and AT ESDI controller cards. Please leave me a message or call me at 708-587-2388 anytime. Thanks 46229,07,05/02/93,JORN BARGER,RANDY HAAALP, randy, chinet is kicking me off. i'm flummoxed because i'd just changed the final 'eval' line in my .profile, trying to start up in elm instead of pico, and when i logged back in to test it I got kicked off "elm not found" (i guessed the wrong path, probably) but *then* i logged in as newuser, and got booted *again*... so is everyone getting booted by a global bug? if it's just me, can you repair my .profile? thanks... Jorn 46328,24,06/14/93,NORB DEMBINSKI,ALL PS/2 PARTS FOR SALE,FROG I have the following PS/2 items for sale: 1. IBM #8514001 8514 16" Color Display. $250.00 2. IBM #1887972 8514/A Color Display Adapter with video memory expansion kit added, 512KB total. $175.00 3. IBM #75X5887 XGA Color Display Adapter/A with IBM #75X5889 video memory expansion kit added, 1MB total. $250.00 4. IBM #6451113 Internal CD-ROM drive. $300.00 5. IBM #6450847 CD-ROM Install Kit/A. $10.00 6. IBM #6451109 16 Bit SCSI Adapter/A. $125.00 7. IBM #30F5279 Internal Tape Drive and Backup Kit for DOS 80/120 Meg capacity. $225.00 8. 3M DC2080 Mini Data Cartridge Tape, 5 cartridges total. $10.00 each 9. IBM #72X8560 8580 Front Bezel/Logo cover. $10.00 SOLD 10. IBM #72X8527 8580 Hard drive support structure. $10.00 11. IBM #6450379 System Board 2MB memory expansion kit. $75.00 All of the above peripherals and adapter cards come with the original manufacturer's diagnostic, install, setup, driver software and printed documentation where and when supplied by the manufacturer. Call 312.731.9894 of leave message on BBS. 46329,15,06/14/93,NORB DEMBINSKI,WARD CHRISTENSEN MESSAGE UPLOAD,FROG Ward: I was able to upload my two long messages to this BBS without having to type them in on line. I had the messages created off line and then copied them to the Windows clipboard and then pasted them in when the BBS was ready to accept input message lines. I had to slow down the character pacing and line pacing quite a bit for the system to accept them without error. Also and CR/LF that I had for line spacing threw the system out of wack. I had to add blank characters before the CR/LF for the system to accept the line spacing. I think that I am now able to handle the message upload function now. This at least gives me the ablility ability to create lengthy messages off line and then upload them to the BBS message area. The pace that the characters are sent in, I can type them in faster but who wants to bother with repetitive tasks, that is what computers are for. 46428,05,08/17/93,DENNIS DARBY,ALL NEW BOARD - PLEASE TEST,KILL I have just set up a new board using wildcat. I hope to get some calls so I can test it. I have a 1200/2400 modem. I live in the NW burbs. When you get on just try the menues and leave a message. If you want an acknowledge say so. after testing this will be a FEE based system. You may call day or night. (708) 803-1349 Thanks for your help. 46429,12,08/19/93,MICHAEL SHARTIAG,ROY LIPSCOMB R/PROBLEM WITH 20 MHZ 286, Roy, As a previous message pointed out, you have to get into the BIOS setup on power up. From a cold reset ( not CTR-ALT_DEL) you have the most time while it is counting the memory hit the DEL key, several times if needed. It should throw you into setup. @nd, the AT was 8 MHZ, right ??? I have never seen a < 386 Motherbrd where you could change the bus clock spped, but who knows. Most cards will take up to about 11.5 Mhz before flaking out, but with OLD IBM cards, who knows.. ( I never have had a REAL IBM PC) ALso as suggested prior, try a different keyboard, and if necessary try settin git to AT then XT (older keyboards did not auto sense, newer ones like found today automatically switch between XT & AT modes). 46528,12,12/13/93,STEVE FARMILANT,ANDY SHAPIRO R/CPM BASIC TO DOS BASIC?, Andy-- Well, it worked. I'd tried that in the past, but kept getting error messages when I ran the program. This time, however, I ASCII'd and DOS'd all the chained files in the program before running, and Voila!, it worked. I appreciate the suggestion, and the comments about pushing and popping whcih compelled me to translate all the .bas files before running. Thanks... But I have another question...do you know how to change the program to initialize a different printer? I can't find it in any of the Basic references I have. Lastly, how would one go about printing a report generated by this program to disk, in stead of to the printer? Thanks! s 46529,13,12/14/93,ANDY SHAPIRO,STEVE FARMILANT R/CPM BASIC TO DOS BASIC?, Well, one step at a time. First, what do you mean by 'initialize'? Unless you're running a serial printer, the output just goes to LPT1. If you want to set up the printer to do something fancy, like tiny fonts or whatever, you'll need to add some LPRINT statements to pump out the appropriate code. As for getting the output to disk instead of a printer, it depends. If the thing is just LPRINTing it to a printer, I believe that you can just open a file for sequential writes and change the LPRINT statements so that the output goes to that file. It's in the BASIC manual, which I don't have, and in the code for your program, which I also don't have. What is the software that you are trying to convert, anyway?