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From: brent@sactoh0 (Brent K. Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Telix 3.11 bug?
Message-ID: <1645@sactoh0>
Date: 24 Jul 89 22:08:41 GMT
Reply-To: brent@sactoh0.UUCP (Brent K. Barrett)
Organization: SAC-UNIX, Sacramento, Ca.
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 I have a possible bug with Telix 3.11 here.  Let me explain as
well as I can:
 
 My BBS sends out a Ctrl-E, ASCII 4, ENQ to prompt for password and
name input.  People calling with Telix 3.11 who have NOTHING set
for their ENQ answerback string have problems, because Telix sends
4 characters (a '0', ASCII 48 being one of them) whenever it sees
an ENQ (even once inside the BBS, if they hit Ctrl-E inside message
entry, Telix sends the same 4 character string in response to the
echo from the BBS of the ENQ).
 
 It gets weirder.  I had a couple of these people try changing
their ENQ answerback string to something -- it *STILL* sent the 4
character garbage and did NOT send their ENQ answerback string.
 
 And, even weirder.  I use Telix 3.11 as well, and call other
boards that run the same software I use.  When the ENQ comes for
the password and name, my Telix copy doesn't send the 4 character
string (it never does to an ENQ -- it works as it should work).  I
would have assumed it was just a bad copy of Telix these people
were using, except for the fact that they downloaded it from my BBS
and it's the same copy I'm using.
 
 Has this (possible) bug been seen elsewhere?  Can others please
try to reproduce the (possible) bug?  If anyone knows what we're
all doing wrong, could they please speak up?  Thank you very much.

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