CBBS(R) 4.0.2a 04/14/89 06:05:33 Y/N: want CBBS "1st time user" info?^U ?^U ?^U ?n;ward;christensen;odraw;;fullc;piss Logging name to disk... You are caller 204669; next msg =41691; 476 active msgs. Prev. call 04/13/89 @ 00:13, next msg was 41681 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. 11 KILLED. 45 SUMMARY. 30 04/13/89,00:13:09,204628,9,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, E#41681, E#41682,19 04/13/89,00:36:49,204629,1,ALAN LAYA,,1 04/13/89,00:58:26,204630,2,HERB SYMS,il, 04/13/89,01:51:13,204631,2,JIM MORAVEC,,9 04/13/89,06:06:01,204632,2,ED IWANSKI,palatine/ IL,6 04/13/89,06:20:10,204633,1,JIM FLANAGAN,,2 04/13/89,07:11:05,204634,2,DENNIS STAHL,,3 04/13/89,09:48:42,204635,2,FRANK GYONDLA,, E#41683,15 04/13/89,10:07:51,204636,2,JAMES KARAGANIS,, E#41684,14 ]'ve noticed that CBBS appears to be slightly less responsive to keystrokes than it was before. Is this due to your monitor screen scrolling? I logged in at 2400 bps. You're still the best BBS around. Jim K. JAMES KARAGANIS, 04/13/89,11:46:36,204637,1,MIKE GIBBONS,chicago,101 04/13/89,12:16:28,204638,2,PAUL STREETER,,1 04/13/89,12:23:25,204639,1,ANDY SHAPIRO,, E#41685,11 04/13/89,14:12:27,204640,1,KAT HARTE,CHICAGO,9 04/13/89,14:25:55,204641,1,BJWEOB KOB,, 04/13/89,14:59:02,204642,2,SCOTT ALBRECHT,,6 04/13/89,15:49:16,204643,2,JOE HANNON,,3 04/13/89,16:05:55,204644,2,BILL WOLFF,,1 04/13/89,16:18:54,204645,1,JOHN MARTORELLO,CHIC. IL, 04/13/89,16:34:43,204646,1,TOM SMITH,, 04/13/89,17:54:25,204647,2,ED IWANSKI,, 04/13/89,18:00:26,204648,2,ED IWANSKI,,8 04/13/89,18:17:38,204649,2,DON STIEN,chicago/il,6 04/13/89,18:24:46,204650,2,DAVID GIBBS,,2 04/13/89,19:03:29,204651,2,MARTY DIPPEL,, >Help: TO,5 04/13/89,19:24:56,204652,1,ADOLPH SCHMIDT,NORRIDGE/IL,11 04/13/89,19:41:54,204653,3,GABRIEL JENKINS,CHICAGO IL,13 04/13/89,20:13:17,204654,2,ANDREW DECKOWITZ,,21 04/13/89,20:39:06,204655,2,STEVE COHEN,,3 04/13/89,20:48:23,204656,2,GARY ELFRING,, E#41686,7 04/13/89,21:43:22,204657,1,DON PARIS,CHI/IL.,7 04/13/89,22:01:40,204658,1,JIM BABECKIS,ORLAND,9 04/13/89,22:13:07,204659,1,CHRIS HEIM,Chicago, E#41687, 04/13/89,22:31:55,204660,2,ERIC BOHLMAN,, E#41688, E#41689,17 04/13/89,22:52:08,204661,1,SCOTT FREEMAN,,1 04/13/89,23:14:44,204662,1,CEDRIC TUTTLE,, 04/14/89,00:12:17,204663,2,ED FOSTER,,6 04/14/89,00:46:06,204664,3,DAN FUHRMAN,braidwood ill, 04/14/89,01:05:05,204665,3,LYNN FUHRMAN,braidwood/ illinois, 04/14/89,01:21:40,204666,2,TONY ANTONUCCI,, E#41690,9 04/14/89,02:07:04,204667,1,BEN TEIFELD,,5 04/14/89,05:38:36,204668,2,PETE JONES,,1 04/14/89,06:05:37,204669,9,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, 41681 04/13/89 WARD CHRISTENSEN => ALL: "TEXT RECO & HAND SCAN" 41682 04/13/89 WARD CHRISTENSEN => ALL: "SCANNED MSG" 41683 04/13/89 FRANK GYONDLA => ALL: "KAYPRO II & IV 4-SALE" 41684 04/13/89 JAMES KARAGANIS => ALL: "USING THE TIMER TICK" 41685 04/13/89 ANDY SHAPIRO => MIKE ANDREWS: "TP 4 FOR CP/M" 41686 04/13/89 GARY ELFRING => GRANT KILLEY: "PROGRAMMER" 41687 04/13/89 CHRIS HEIM => WHERE IS DARWIN: "DARWIN USBBS" 41688 04/13/89 ERIC BOHLMAN => JAMES KARAGANIS: "R/USING THE TIMER TICK" 41689 04/13/89 ERIC BOHLMAN => WARD: "SCANNER" 41690 04/14/89 TONY ANTONUCCI => JIM KARAGANIS: "TIMER & STUFF" - End of summary - Retrieving flagged msgs: C skips, K aborts. Msg 41681 is 20 line(s) on 04/13/89 from WARD CHRISTENSEN to ALL re: TEXT RECO & HAND SCAN Got a new "toy" a couple days ago - "Carets by Hand Deluxe" - a text reco package (CARETS = ChAracter RETyping System), which works with the DFI HS-3000 hand scanner! I just scanned a little product item in the March Byte mag (about the WILLOW TV-compatible VGA) and got about 7 errors in maybe a K of text - pretty impressive! It can learn new monospaced or porportional fonts, handles ligatures (fl type combos that are joined). When training, you can tell it to split things it mis-interpreted, or join things it accidentally split, and many other features. It seems to do virtually flawless recognition of HPLJ courier, and comes with recognition fonts for US News & World Report, Byte, TIME, Scientific American, PC World - and possibly others, I forget. A friend at work came up with a novel idea - NOT correcting words it scanned - when you have scanned them just to have a hard copy of an article - your "mind" can fill in the typos. All you might want to do is ensure the "key words" in the article are correct should you wish to use something like Gofer or LookFor (or even grep) to find text. Pretty slick! I'll upload the article "as scanned" in the next message. Msg 41682 is 26 line(s) on 04/13/89 from WARD CHRISTENSEN to ALL re: SCANNED MSG The following was scanned from March '89 BYTE using the $199 DFI HS-3000 (it cost $300 when I bought it some time ago); it uses the Carets Deluxe text reco software. See previous msg. - Now you can display your presentation on the big screen without having to ?ness with color slides, overhead projectors, or expensive large-screen VGA nto?itors. VGA-TV is a 100 percent register and BIOS-compatible VGA card that proides standard National Television Systern Committee video outp?t with resolutions as hi?h as 720 by 480 pixels an4 256 colors. VGA-TV has a standard RCA outputjack that you can connect directly to yo?r VCR, letting you record any i?nage, including ani?nation, as it is o?tput from the VGA monitor. You can also use the progratn to s?hstitute for a large-screen monitor without having to pay extra for VGA co?npatibility. The package consists of a /?ll-length board and software that requires an IBM PC with 512K bytes ofRAM and DOS 2.0 or higher. Willow cautions that yo? can't use the program to convert VCR images to VGA. Pricat $699. Contactt Willow Peripherals, Inc., 190 Willow Ave., Bronx, NY 10454, (212) 402-0010. Inquiry 968. - Should you be interested in the CONTENT of that article, I checked, the "pertinent" info is correct: price, addr, phone. Inquiry number was 908 however. Not bad recognitiofor $425 worth of hardware/software accessories for a PC! Msg 41683 is 06 line(s) on 04/13/89 from FRANK GYONDLA to ALL re: KAYPRO II & IV 4-SALE For Sale; Kaypro II CP/M system with some software .$ 150 Kaypro IV CP/M system with Wordstar, DbaseII, some other stuff.$180 Sheet feeder for a Diablo LQ Printer . $100 (offer) Call Frank Gyondla (312) 998-8974 Msg 41684 is 07 line(s) on 04/13/89 from JAMES KARAGANIS to ALL re: USING THE TIMER TICK To anyone, I'm trying to use the clock interrupt on the PC. I can get the interrupt vectored to my handler correctly but the interrupt routine is unable to access any variables in my local data segment. This is probably something to do with a missing pseudo-op or something but I don't know. Also, I need to increase the clock rate to about 50 Hz. How would I do this? Thanks, Jim K. Msg 41685 is 02 line(s) on 04/13/89 from ANDY SHAPIRO to MIKE ANDREWS re: TP 4 FOR CP/M 'sfar as I know, they never brought out anything past 3.0 for CP/M! Do you have some inside information? Msg 41686 is 08 line(s) on 04/13/89 from GARY ELFRING to GRANT KILLEY re: PROGRAMMER If your still looking for a consultant (I was working COMDEX for the last week so I may be a bit tardy) my firm probably fits your description. We specialize in real-time control and embedded systems. I'm an expert in 8085 assembler and C, and have 3 years experience coding in C and assembler on the 68000. I used an Applied Microsystems emulator in that work. The job entailed developing a embedded system for conversion of typesetting code. If you are interested or want details give me a call at 312-377-3520. Gary Elfring Msg 41687 is 09 line(s) on 04/13/89 from CHRIS HEIM to WHERE IS DARWIN re: DARWIN USBBS l where can I find darwin usbbs list? l s l d c dd d Msg 41688 is 19 line(s) on 04/13/89 from ERIC BOHLMAN to JAMES KARAGANIS re: R/USING THE TIMER TICK I can only offer some general hints, not et having tackled such a project, but here goes. When an interrupt is serviced, all segment registers except for the CODE segment haven't been changed from what they were when the interrupt came along. You'll have to explicitly load up the data and stack segment registers, as well as the extra segment if you're going to use it. If you want to increase the clock-tick rate, you'll need to do two things: 1) you'll have to reprogram the timer chip to put out a faster rate and 2) your interrupt routine will have to divide the rate down as far as calling the old routine goes (otherwise DOS's date and time will get messed up. In other words, you'll have to maintain a counter which you decrement each time you enter your routine. When it eaches zero, you call the original routine and reload the counter. This gets a bit tricky, because the new clock rate is 2.75 times the old one, which means that you'll need to maintain another counter that tells you when you have to call the original routine an extra time in order to compensate for rounding (you might try calling the old routine once every three ticks, and an extra time every thirty ticks). Msg 41689 is 01 line(s) on 04/13/89 from ERIC BOHLMAN to WARD re: SCANNER How sensitive is it to tracking angles and similar matters of positioning? Msg 41690 is 07 line(s) on 04/14/89 from TONY ANTONUCCI to JIM KARAGANIS re: TIMER & STUFF Jim; Well long time no hear from ! The other reply to your msg was correct, I always stick the data I need in an interrupt service routine in the code segment along with the routine. Cause, on interrupt service the only register that has a known value is the code segment (CS). I bumped into Mark S. last summer, we were both getting new drivers lic. at Sec. of state. dup. chars. >Function:?CBBS(R) 4.0.2a 04/14/89 23:05:28 Y/N: want CBBS "1st time user" info?^U ?^U ?^U ?n;ward;christensen;odraw;;fullc;piss Logging name to disk... You are caller 204697; next msg =41695; 467 active msgs. Prev. call 04/14/89 @ 06:05, next msg was 41691 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. 12 KILLED. 50 SUMMARY. 30 04/13/89,00:13:09,204628,9,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, E#41681, E#41682,19 04/14/89,06:05:37,204669,9,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, E#41691, E#41692, 04/14/89,06:20:13,204670,X,WARD CHRISTENSEN,,2 04/14/89,06:3419,204671,1,JIM FLANAGAN,,1 04/14/89,08:48:53,204672,1,LARRY HITZ,,3 04/14/89,09:50:19,204673,9,MIKE ANDREWS,, E#41693,13 04/14/89,10:07:31,204674,1,JACK HOMA,,8 04/14/89,10:50:49,204675,2,JIM PERKINS,,17 04/14/89,11:45:24,204676,2,PAUL STREETER,,1 04/14/89,12:00:19,204677,1,JOHN BURKE,, 04/14/89,12:49:59,204678,1,COLIN SCHROEDER,,6 04/14/89,13:13:43,204679,1,ANDY RUNGE,,3 04/14/89,14:53:57,204680,3,MIKE FRICANO,STONE PARK, 04/14/89,14:58:15,204681,2,BILL WOLFF,,2 04/14/89,15:11:07,204682,2,TOM LAMB,,4 04/14/89,15:18:56,204683,2,WAYNE RISH,Bucyrus/ OH,16 04/14/89,15:40:40,204684,1,ADAM DADA,, E#41694,21 04/14/89,16:47:26,204685,1,DANNY VAISRUB,,4 04/14/89,17:22:54,204686,1,JAMES ROSS,DENVER,3 04/14/89,17:47:14,204687,2,GARY ELFRING,,0 04/14/89,17:54:28,204688,3,JOHN HUFFMAN,Bloomington/ IL, 04/14/89,18:00:11,204689,1,MIKE KAVADIAS,,3 04/14/89,18:12:00,204690,2,JAMES SCHMIDT,,2 04/14/89,19:56:42,204691,2,JAN HLADKY,chicago,22 04/14/89,20:52:16,204692,2,MARTY DIPPEL,,2 04/14/89,20:54:10,204693,2,MARTY DIPPEL,,2 04/14/89,21:03:00,204694,2,JIM PERKINS,,6 04/14/89,21:54:55,204695,2,ART CLEMONS,hazel crest/ il,2 04/14/89,22:29:22,204696,2,DAVID GIBBS,,1 04/14/89,23:05:33,204697,9,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, 41691 04/14/89 WARD CHRISTENSEN => JAMES KARAGANIS: "CBBS RESPONSIVENESS" 41692 04/14/89 WARD CHRISTENSEN => ERIC BOHLMAN: "R/SCANNER" 41693 04/14/89 MIKE ANDREWS => ANDY SHAPIRO: "R/TP 4 FOR CP/M" 41694 04/14/89 ADAM DADA => RICHARD HINTON: "R/BASIC TO COMPILED BASIC?" - End of summary - Retrieving flagged msgs: C skips, K aborts. Msg 41691 is 07 line(s) on 04/14/89 from WARD CHRISTENSEN to JAMES KARAGANIS re: CBBS RESPONSIVENESS CBBS how has an interrupt driven front-end, and should be MORE responsive to input, i.e. I'm no longer losing chars which I accidentally type too soon after hitting return, for example. Do you have an MNP modem? If you do, then it WILL, of necessity, BE less responsive because the modems are 'packetizing' and 'handshaking' (here's some data, did you get it? Yep, I got it) etc. Could that explain it? Msg 41692 is 21 line(s) on 04/14/89 from WARD CHRISTENSEN to ERIC BOHLMAN re: R/SCANNER The scanner handles +/- 5 degrees or so - it is in other words, not very sensitive to the scanning angle. It is most sensitive to the contrast control - if too light, gaps appear in scanned letters, and if too dark, tightly spaced text starts to bleed together. So far the worst trouble I've found was trying to get it to read a hard cover book, which basically has a fairly large font, and the "W" and "M" chars are sufficiently wide that it has a teeny bit of problem with 'em. For example, look at this: This is an example of the many things that can happen might read as: This is an exarnple of the n:any things that can happen Heh heh - I got a kick out of "rn" being an "m" - it actually LOOKS like an "m"! Owell, I'll have more time to experiment with it - haven't had that much time - and though the book says "don't start working with training fonts until you've gone through the 8 lessons in the book", like most users, I found myself barely getting into it before going ahead to training. There are a few things I've probably missed. For example, there's a "retrain" function key - I think that's if it consistently says an i is a !, you can "retrain" it to say "when you THINK you have a !, make it an i". Strangely, it is VERY VERY enjoyable working with the scanner - 'psyching' out why it made certain substitutions, etc. Msg 41693 is 07 line(s) on 04/14/89 from MIKE ANDREWS to ANDY SHAPIRO re: R/TP 4 FOR CP/M I guess I counted wrong. I had Turbo 3.0, an uprade from 2.whatever. My experience with PASCAL was using Turbo to finish the course and then selling it, vowing never to look at PASCAL again. I wasn't sure that was a Turbo 4.0 for CP/M. I asked a Borland rep at Comdex and he started making speeches about MACintosh software. Guess he didn't know what CP/M was and tried to vamp. Msg 41694 is 07 line(s) on 04/14/89 from ADAM DADA to RICHARD HINTON re: R/BASIC TO COMPILED BASIC? Answering to Basic Compiler Did you check out Microsoft's Basic Compiler? It has alot of neat feature, plus it compiles very fast. Also, did you look at Turbo Basic. For a minimal cost, it comes with a compiler and some other utilities that may help you. If you know Basic like me, it can really be helpful. If you have any questions, please call me at: (312)-698-3091, after 4:00p (CST), Adam Dada dup. chars. >Function:?