Subj : binkley xe
To   : Paul Lentz
From : Roy J. Tellason
Date : Sun Dec 15 2002 12:05 pm

Paul Lentz wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 PL> Roy J. Tellason wrote in a message to Paul Lentz:

 PL> today... FTS0001 packet dates get grunged  ummm... might even

RJT> I guess I must be missing something here,  because I don't see
RJT> where bink has anything to do with packet dates.  It doesn't create
RJT> them,  at least not here.  The only thing I have it doing is answer
RJT> the phone,  transfer files back and forth,  and hand off to another
RJT> package for dialing my uucp connection,  or to the bbs.  That,  and
RJT> kick off the mail tossing process when there's some incoming.

RJT> Where does it deal with packet dates?

 PL> FTS-0001 calls produce an outgoing packet header that it sends to
 PL> the other machine that is filled up like normal packets with
 PL> originating/destination zone/net/node info and password, date/time
 PL> info, etc.. Both machines exchanges that instead of the EMSI
 PL> handshake information. Of course FTS-0001 is rarely used... but it
 PL> is broken in older non-y2k binks.

Oh!  Well,  here I am,  running broken software and not even realizing it...  
:-)

I'm pretty sure that most all of my calls lately have been using that EMSI 
handshake when the two systems connect.

 PL> Also for example... the BTXE 2.60 XR6??? early-ish version I'm
 PL> running right now also has the date proudly displayed as 
 PL> "102/12/14"... I couldn't get later versons running correctly so I
 PL> live with it, 

I have a version of LIST like that,  shows today's date as 12/15/:2.  I 
actually did get a newer one but have never bothered to install it,  since it's 
only cosmetic here.

 PL> also later verions had pull down this, zoom that, buffer this 
 PL> other stuff that was useless code bloat for an unattended mailer 
 PL> that you touch a key on once a week.

That sounds to me like a lot of the reason that I didn't move past 2.60,  maybe 
it was stuff that I was reading in here at the time,  I don't recall.  About 
all I ever do with mine is blank or unblank the screen,  manually generate a 
poll from time to time,  and that's about it.  Guess I'll stay with it,  
then...

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