(LARRY R.) Good morning! (Tony Anderson) Good morning, Larry. (LARRY R.) Got yer msg. Just bought TDD2, should not leave it ON while trying to log on, however. I about freaked out when I did THAT this AM! (Sysop Tony) What did it do? (LARRY R.) It would not do anything after entering the TERM mode, CTRL-C would not "thaw" this freeze but F8 worked. I had to re-enter my STAT line, but it worked and voici moi! (Sysop Tony) Oh, THAT! .... Yes, that's always been a problem with the TDD, too; when you access the disk, it changes the STAT, and doesn't change it back. So that hasn't been fixed with the new one, huh? (LARRY R.) Well, the screen showed correct stats re-entering them was something I did in a desperation! (Sysop Tony) Interesting.... Follow up on that, and see if you can figure it out. May be a bug in the new DOS. (LARRY R.) I am using a 6 volt DC charger which I used with my CCR-82 tape recorder to power my TDD2, but whenever I save to the disk the low-power lamp comes on... any guesses??? (Sysop Tony) Probably the DC charger doesn't provide enough current. The power supply used with the Model 100 drives the original TDD fine. (Larry L) Yes..Larry.. It sounds like the charger doesn't supply enough current. Most disk drives use a lot of current when writing. You might want to find out the current and add about 50% to get the current output needed to be supplied by the charger. (LARRY R.) The book gives a catalog number of TRS charger it recommends, however the clerk said and apparently was mistaken, that the one I use on the recorder would work... I'll swing by RS today and buy the one listed in the book! Thanx! (Sysop Tony) Yes... Apparently the clerk was misinformed (grin). (Larry L) The charger for the M100 is the highest output 6V charger they sell. That should do it. (LARRY R.) Is there a danger of too much power on 6 volt charger into drive? (Larry L) No Larry, the rating is the most current that the unit can supply. Each load will only draw the current it needs. (Sysop Tony) OK for now, Larry? (LARRY R.) Back to basic E for me! Thanx!!! (Leonard) I've got a couple simple questions for you first off, was the filename you suggested phntip.005? second, do we have a dvi tip series? (Sysop Tony) Don't recall which phone tip number I suggested. I'd have to go look how many are already there.... and Yes, there is a DVITIP series. (Leonard) ok.. thanks, (I'm writing the file even as we 'speak') (Sysop Tony) "Even as we speak"??? (Leonard) sure, I'm using a terminal... and writing on one of the 100's. (Sysop Tony) Ah ha! OK. Anything more, Leonard? (Leonard) oh yeah... I heard from an rs sales rep that the 600 is on 'sold out when gone' status. Also saw a TD2. (Sysop Tony) Yes... that was reported on the message board. Don't know if it's true or not. Usually they go on a where is as is sale, but I saw an ad in the paper this week advertising the 600's for $799. So I'd not be surprised to see them vanish. (STUART R.) HI-I GOTTA GO BACK TO EUROPE. CAN I USE MY BUILT IN MODEM OVER THERE ? (Sysop Tony) Yes and no.... There is one communication service over there that accepts 300 baud US signals, and the Model 100 will work with that. GO CSCNET for info from CompuServe on that. But for most locations, you will need a CCITT standard modem which is not compatible at 300 baud, but IS at 1200 baud. Best bet is to buy a 300/1200 baud modem, as an upgrade here, and use the 1200 baud capability over there. (Larry L) There is an untried and undocumented method of converting the M100 to CCITT use. By changing the pins on the modem chip you can convert to CCITT frequencies. It would entail lifting two pins on the modem chip and soldering two wires. (Sysop Tony) Yes... reportedly that has been done by several Australian members... but it does require a hardware modification and would have to be changed back again, when coming back to the US. There was a company in Germany who had a conversion kit for sale. We had a file in DL13 with their address but their modification was switchable so you could use either. (Larry L) Yes... All that is being done is alternately tying one of two pins to 5V or ground. Putting in a switch would be VERY easy and VERY cheap. (Leonard) there is more than just adding a switch. You have to change an *external* (to the modem chip) filter network too... otherwise performance is *lousy*. (Sysop Tony) OK... Any follow up, Stuart? (STUART R.) I probably will just buy an external modem when i get there (GENE NESTRO) Tony, is there any info on replacing Nicads on the M100? DL1 maybe? (Sysop Tony) Well... if you mean on the "care and feeding of nicads", there is a file called NICADS.ART in DL7. Or on installing them in a 100, RECHRG.100 or RECHRG.200, or RECHRG.102,too... what exactly did you need to know? (GENE NESTRO) My 100 won't recharge (Sysop Tony) OK, it's not clear if you are talking about nicads you put into the computer or the internal nicads that hold the memory content. Clarify? (GENE NESTRO) The 100 will not recharge & I can't use it as a port. (Sysop Tony) That didn't respond to the question... Are you saying your 100 will not recharge nicads? The computer never did recharge nicads unless you modified it. (GENE NESTRO) Memory content is OK. The 100 won't maybe I need new Nicads??? (Sysop Tony) Possibly.... but also, it could be that they are not making good contact in the battery compartment. Check the springs, and test each battery out of the computer with a meter. (GENE NESTRO) Will do thanks...I'm currently setting local Police Depts with Cellular Phones & the 102 for instant "original reports" etc (Sysop Tony) OK... interesting project. Did you know about Lenny Leedy and the Florida police groups using the 100? He has posted some files here. (GENE NESTRO) Yes , I worked with St. Peterrburg, Tampa, Ft. Laureldale & L.A. depts. How do I search (command) for m for Lenny's programs? (Sysop Tony) I don't have his PPN handy, but I'd guess that S/KEY POLICE might find it/them in DL4. (R Caley) ok... quick question... what is fastest way to send files from one m-100 to another without cassette? (Sysop Tony) Reliably, at 9600 baud through the RS-232 port. Know how? (R Caley) do you have to have a special cable? (Sysop Tony) Well, Either a null modem cable, or a regular cable with a null modem adapter. There is a file in DL9 which tells how to build one yourself. (R Caley) thanx...I can use my Disk+ cables. (Sysop Tony) OK Then you simply go into text on both machines, and on the one you want to receive the file, you press F2, and type COM:87I1E (ENTER).... and on the one you are sending from, press F3, and type COM:87I1E, and press ENTER. (GENE NESTRO) I use 98N1E (com:98N1E) is your stat setting better? (Sysop Tony) Yes, Gene it is, 87 doesn't affect the calendar, whereas 98 will. However, 87 will also allow you to transfer BASIC files from machine to machine. (GENE NESTRO) thnkx really appreciate that !!! (Leonard) I was just going to ask about the 87 & mention Basic. I *would* suggest 88 not 87 for transfers between 100's, that way you don't lose any grphics/foriegn/whatever characters. (Sysop Tony) Yes, the 87 does work in BASIC, because the transfer is in ASCII, not tokens. But you are correct about the graphic and foreign characters. Seldom think about those, since we seldom use them here. But for that, 88 would be better. (Sysop Tony) Did you have something else, Leonard? (Leonard) Yeah, just got a weird msg on the other line (I had to log with the 100 to check a msg). Just for the heck of it after checking the msg, I tried to enter the CO (would have made me 'twins'). Got a "job limit exceeded" msg??? (Sysop Tony) Yes... Users are only allowed to have one job number in CO under the same PPN. .... Sysops are excepted from that since we need to make transcripts. (Leonard) Aha! Special privileges! I guess you guys work hard enough to justify them (Sysop Tony) Yes... well, ... you don't notice it now, but I have two jobs running now, one for the transcript. You can't see that. (Leonard) ok, I kinda figured it was something like that. (Sysop Tony) OK... take a look at the UST 18 now, and you can see the transcript being made. (Leonard) yep.. (Sysop Tony) And now it's gone. (Leonard) in fact I'd *just* done a ust to check on don's ppn! (Sysop Tony) Well, it looks like we have lots of new folks here. How do you folks like the later starting time? (Larry L) 12 is a little late for us on the East coast, but I guess if it could bring in more Left coasters it's fine with me. (Sysop Tony) (LEFT??) Problem was, 8 am was too early on the West Coast. would an evening CO be better? If so when? (Larry L) I have to get up very early so evening (9PM) are too late for me. (john k) well... eve would be rough for either west or east depending... this new time is great! (Sysop Tony) one suggstion was that we start at 8 AM on the East coast.... and let it run til 10 on the West! (gag).... (Leonard) I was just a bit surprised this morning, I got up at 8:30 and expected to have missed 1/2 hour of the CO. Then I get here and found *nobody*. (then I saw the notice...). I do like the later time though. Dunno about evening. (Sysop Tony) Yeah... Saturday nite in Oregon is real tough! (grin) 8:30 indeed! ... (Larry L) Is this new time permanant? (Sysop Tony) Well... not really. .... If we find most folks would prefer an evening CO, we'd probably change. But it won't be set back to the old time for a while. That time was for Dave's convenience, and I'll be doing the CO's from now on. (Larry L) [where is dave] (Sysop Tony) Dave has accepted a contract with another service, and will no longer be sysoping here. We expect to see him from time to time, but not in an official capacity. (Larry L) [we'll miss him] (Jon Payne) What! sysop ^Dave^ is gone? Say it ain't so! (Sysop Tony) Yes, he's gone. Hasn't been here since last Sunday. (FALCETTA) AM NEW TO FORUM...NEW TO COMPUSERVE.. NEW TO COMPUTERS...SO NEW I DON'T KNOW HOW TO WORK ANYTHING (Sysop Tony) OK... First off, you're typing in all capital letters.... Do you have your CAPS LOCK key down? (FALCETTA) YES off now. i assume ga is like radio command for "over" (Sysop Tony) Yes... That's better. Yes, "ga" means, "I am done, you can go ahead". ga Falcetta, you have the floor. ga (FALCETTA) tnx what hardware do i need to dowload from Forum files pls. (Sysop Tony) You can download with nothing more than your computer To capture anything that you are receiving all you have to do is press the F2 button, and give a file name. But... We have prepared a file on that subject, which provides greater detail than we can in this conference situation. To read the file, type the letter B at the main menu function prompt (where you can read or leave messages) and press the ENTER key. At the next menu, type the number 4 and press ENTER to read the file. Suggest you echo a copy to your printer for later review. (Turn on Printer and press F5 button) OK? (FALCETTA) have printer on now, thank you. i don't know what Protocol with which to respond (Sysop Tony) The Model 100 group uses the "Capture" protocol, Also called DC2/DC4. OK? (FALCETTA) tnx. will try (David H. Hawes) Tony, How do I unprompt press for more (Sysop Tony) GO DEFAULT, and set your page length to zero. That should stop the prompts. However, some things are interlinked, so check the file DEFALT.HLP in DL1. (David H. Hawes) thanks (john k) ok.... just out of interest, Tony, do you sign a "contract" with Compuserve? (Sysop Tony) If you mean me, specifically, no. There is a contract holder, who provides the forum service to CompuServe, and who does have a contract with them. In our case, it's Wayne Day, who is the primary sysop. Each Primary can contract for services as needed. Wayne and I do not have a contract, only a mutual agreement. (john k) interesting, tnx. (Leonard) What's "the life of a sysop" like? (Sysop Tony) Lots of behind-the-scenes work to supporting a forum. ... Most members don't see, or are aware of the hours we put in researching answers, writing files, updating index and catalog files, reviewing, testing, and merging new files; it's virtually a full-time job. (Leonard) that's about what I figured... I've done some asst sysop work on a couple of local boards. Extrapolating from that, I can guess what it must be like. Thought it would be nice to have it 'on the record' as it were. (Sysop Tony) Thanks for that! Working on an International BBS (essentially), is much more work than local BBS's, just by the sheer scope of it. Most BBS's deal with one person at a time, and have maybe 50 or 60 signons.... a day. We have that in ten minutes or so, on a busy day. (Leonard) [try 100-200!] (Sysop Tony) Another difference is the number of simultaneous users we can have on at the same time. And the size of the database is another point. I consider local BBS's as a "small world" CompuServe, and good training for moving up. (grin) (Leonard) At least you don't have problems with "anonymous twits"! That is a major problem on local boards. That and would be "hackers" (proper term is "cracker"!) (Sysop Tony) Well here, they "twit" once, and get a warning... "twit" twice, and they're history! I'm glad to see you differentiate between hackers and crackers. I'm a long-time hacker, from back in the early days of personal computers and resent the press's use of the word "hacker" to describe irresponsible twits! Fortunately, we don't have many on CompuServe. ...for very long, anyway. (Leonard) Well, *knowing* for CERTAIN the identities of users helps a lot. And paying money tends to increase the proportion of responsible users. (Sysop Tony) Yes, I agree... (David H. Hawes) For DBNEW... how do you use 10k files? I have dp100 (Sysop Tony) I'm not familiar with DBNEW, so can't offer much advice. .... but it's likely that the program wasn't designed for use with very large files, since the Model 100 group doesn't have that much RAM space to begin with. It's possible the program could be converted for use with one of the disk drives, but that's beyond me. ... Have you tried sending a message to the author of the program yet? (David H. Hawes) yes. It was originally for the DVI and he didnt have any ideas (Sysop Tony) Well... If it worked with the DVI, then it would work with the Chipmunk, since that uses the same commands. And it should work with the TDD, if the program accesses the file data sequentially. None of the TDD DOS's can open more than one file, though. ... don't know if that's a problem or not. Also, only TS-RANDOM from Traveling Software supports random access. ... don't know if THAT's a problem either. (David H. Hawes) thats probably it! thanks! (PETER) I can not get the Model 600 to hook up with the phone. It gets the carrier tone and then nothing. (Sysop Tony) OK... the 600 is not a user friendly computer at all! the TELCOM program is very, very complex, and difficult to use correctly. .... the manual is wrong on several points. We have five files in DL11 that detail, step by step, how to get TELCOM working. Have you read those? (PETER) yes... I've been thru the script file redoing the set-up many times. (Sysop Tony) OK... if you follow those steps exactly, it should work for you.... If it doesn't, then there's something wrong, and I can't divine what it is... You should take it to the store, and see if they can help you set it up. (PETER) - thank you for this & prior help (David Edwards) I once asked if anyone had had any problems with the spell checker, using Powr-Dos. I had to do a cold start twice and am wondering what is happenning. (Sysop Tony) Although I was actively involved in creating the spelling checker programs... I have the impression that relatively few people are actually using it. And must admit, that I don't use it much, either. (David Edwards) [it is time comsuming] (Sysop Tony) There seem to be even fewer users of POWR-DOS, since it's only been available for a few months. No one has connected the two, that I know of... except you. It has been mentioned that POWR-DOS is different than POWR-DISK,.. which does work, fine. (I have POWR-DISK and TS-DOS myself). But I can't figure out what doesn't work with your combination, without having POWR-DOS to test it. Sorry. ... I don't even know what to recommend, other than posting a "Help" message on the bulletin board. (David Edwards) Insperation!!!!!!!! Spell checker has a programm that uses machine languge I bet that is the problem. it is used to convert the data file into a file that the program can use. (Sysop Tony) Possible. ... You may have to reload or reactivate POWR-DOS after running DCPREP. Although I had the impression that DCPREP relocated in high memory under HIMEM. I thought POWR-DOS loaded in low memory, so HIMEM wasn't involved. But DCPREP may destroy some hooks that POWR-DOS uses. (David Edwards) When I go to Powr-dos after DCPREP is when I get the errors so it must be the hooks as you say. Also what you said about mem locations is as I understand it also... I will have to study what is happening... now that I think I know where it is. (Sysop Tony) OK... good. Let me know what you find. We may need a tip file on that one. (Sysop Tony) OK folks, that about does it for this week. .... Thanks for coming. Stick around and talk if you like. END OF CO