CBBS(R) 4.0.3b 04/02/92 00:12:52 Y/N: want CBBS "1st time user" info?^U ?^U ?^U ?n;ward;christensen;odraw;;fullc;piss Logging name to disk... You are caller 226314; next msg =45572; 370 active msgs. Prev. call 03/31/92 @ 22:00, next msg was 45569 Recording logon for next time... Use FULL? to check assignments ?^U ?xxxxx "Mine" command checking for msgs TO >Function:?dir c:log;dir c:killed;dir summary;type-20 log,ward c;or;*;short LOG. 12 KILLED. 58 SUMMARY. 24 03/31/92,22:00:15,226304,1,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, E#45569, E#45570, E#45571,19 03/31/92,22:23:59,226305,2,GAYLAND BLOETHE,,2 03/31/92,23:51:48,226306,2,BILL MATTSON,,1 04/01/92,12:27:33,226307,2,DENNIS STAHL,,2 04/01/92,14:08:01,226308,2,DENNIS STAHL,,1 04/01/92,15:06:46,226309,2,DON PIVEN,,3 04/01/92,15:56:19,226310,2,BEN AVILA,,9 04/01/92,20:35:47,226311,2,BILL BRYCE,,2 04/01/92,22:03:05,226312,3,MURRAY ARNOW,,2 04/01/92,22:49:12,226313,1,SAM POLONETZKY,,3 04/02/92,00:12:57,226314,1,WARD CHRISTENSEN,, 45569 03/31/92 WARD CHRISTENSEN => KEVIN QUINN: "R/AID FOR VISUALLY HANDICAPPED" 45570 03/31/92 WARD CHRISTENSEN => BILL WOLFF: "R/FULL COMMAND" 45571 03/31/92 WARD CHRISTENSEN => JIM THALE: "R/YASBEC" ---- End of summary ---- Retrieving flagged msgs: C skips, K aborts. Msg 45569 is 03 line(s) on 03/31/92 from WARD CHRISTENSEN to KEVIN QUINN re: R/AID FOR VISUALLY HANDICAPPED Yep, time for us to hit BangKok. Not a good time with Comdex coming up, but perhaps some time late April or so. Msg 45570 is 10 line(s) on 03/31/92 from WARD CHRISTENSEN to BILL WOLFF re: R/FULL COMMAND Uh, sorry 'bout that. I added it as a real "kluge", and it documents itself with the hideously inconsistent syntax: full? Were you talking to Dennis Duffner? He, too, in the last few days, tried to get help on FULL. Actually, I'm "chicken" to update the help file - I'm not sure I have my old help-file-indexing-program around any more. I have a file of help keywords-only, so what you type gets looked up there, and it gives the file offset of the actual text, so I do a direct seek. Makes help pretty fast. (Ah, the tricks that used to be done to make CP/M floppies fast ;-) Msg 45571 is 11 line(s) on 03/31/92 from WARD CHRISTENSEN to JIM THALE re: R/YASBEC I know what you mean - single board computers can be a BLAST! One of the more fun projects I did was to (1) write a 3-of-9 bar code printing program, then (2) write a tiny assembler program to read the bar codes, using software timing (it was speed-independent to a ratio of about 30:1) and burn it into a PROM on a $100 single board 8085 computer called "the General". The 8085 had a software uart built in, and you could hook it to a serial port and send bar codes read in via the port. Pretty slick. I think the ratio "function to code size" means that some small programs are a real gas. My "record" still stands: a 2-byte program in the early Altair that would (1) clear memory and (2) put a machine size indicator in the front panel lights (grin). No dup. chars. >Function:?