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Rainbow EchoMail Digest					    Nov 11, 1990

In this issue:
  CODE-BLUE                 
  REGIS                     
  NOVICE RAINBOW USER       
  RE: TRANSFER OF LONG FILE 
  RE: SEDT                  
  RE: PC100A AT AUCTION     


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Date:     11-07-90 (17:25)
To:       ALL 
Subject:  CODE-BLUE 
From:     PATRICK FINK 

Does any one have a copy of code blue they want to sell me?
                                        -Pat


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Date:     11-08-90 (18:07)
To:       PATRICK FINK 
Subject:  REGIS 
From:     DENIS CICCARELLI 

Pat,
 
 I uploaded the file REGIS.EXE to the Waystar BBS. Sorry but I could
not find a .DOC file for it. I do not have a color monitor but
I have used it with my mono. monitor and I recall that it did work. 
 
 I uploaded it to the RAINBOW files area (A38). Hope it does the trick for you.
 
     Waystar BBS - Marlborough, MA (508) 481-7147 - (1:322/14.0)
 
 Regards,
 Denis...


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Date:     11-09-90 (10:06)
To:       GEORGE THEALL 
Subject:  NOVICE RAINBOW USER 
From:     FRANK MALLORY 

 GT> From: naucse!rrw@arizona.edu  (Robert Wier) Organization: Northern 
 GT> Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ

 GT>  Bringing up the Rainbow in Terminal mode, I can successfully
 GT>  "talk" to the weather station.  Now the problem is to write
 GT>  either a BASIC (CPM) or PASCAL(MSDOS) program to do the
 GT>  automatic reads to disk.  The problem is that looking in the
 GT>  BASIC manual, I can't figure out how to tie the BASIC input
 GT>  or inp statement to the communications port (INP specifies
 GT>  read a byte from port #1 - #255 - but what is the comm port?)
 GT>  Alternately, maybe Pascal has a better way to handle this.

You might look into the possibility of using the latest Kermit to read
the  data.  Kermit now has the ability to read plain ASCII
files, and it has a  powerful script capability that can be
used for automatic operation.

Turbo Pascal on the Rainbow is pretty easy to operate and is very
efficient.   Learning the Pascal language is something else,
however; but there are  numerous commercial books dedicated to
this subject.

Should you decide to take the Pascal route, there are several files on
this  BBS that may be of help to you: PASLIBS.ZIP, THELP.ZIP,
and TURBUTIL.ZIP, for  example.


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Date:     11-09-90 (07:43)
To:       HOWARD HALL 
Subject:  RE: TRANSFER OF LONG FILE 
From:     DAVID MAROUN 

 > George - I found that I could readily XFER long files both
 > ways by using DECON to break the files into small portions
 > (your option on size of portions), move the smaller parts
 > to single-sided disks, then reassemble at the other end
 
Other utilities for transferring big files between any two machines,
either of which may be a Rainbow:  The Bear's back-up and
restore utilities (look for BBACKRES.ZIP or .ARC or .LZH); the
back-up and restore utilities distributed with MS-DOS 3.1 if
you have that operating system (the Philips versions will run
under Rainbow MS-DOS 2.11), or my XTRAC and XTRACC utilities on
this board. 

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 * Origin: Glacier Peak Rainbow, Bellevue, WA - 206/644-8431 (1:343/3.0)
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Date:     11-09-90 (07:48)
To:       HOWARD HALL 
Subject:  RE: SEDT 
From:     DAVID MAROUN 

The various key definition files are about identical in content
differing only in the name [at least for SEDT up to version 3.3
(248)].  You can use one key definition on another machine by
remembering the function key numbers.  <F12> does the same
thing on various machines.  If there is no <F12> key on a
keyboard, <Shift> <F2> is the replacement. 

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 * Origin: Glacier Peak Rainbow, Bellevue, WA - 206/644-8431 (1:343/3.0)
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Date:     11-10-90 (07:32)
To:       GEORGE THEALL 
Subject:  RE: PC100A AT AUCTION 
From:     FRANK MALLORY 

 GT> Even if the machine _were_ IBM compatible, this is a totally outrageous 
 GT> price for a used machine with that amount of disk storage/memory.  Even 
 GT> with the modem and the printer.  It would even be high for a NEW 
 GT> machine.

Evidently DEC established a pretty good foothold in auto dealerships. 
Mercedes-Benz for one uses VAXes for their parts control and
other functions,  and they have Rainbows as well as VTs. So it
isn't unreasonable for another  dealership to pay a premium for
compatible equipment.
 

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