Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ssbell!mcmi!amperif!unocss!ho@fergvax.unl.edu From: ho@fergvax.unl.edu (Michael Ho) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Telix 3.11 bug? Message-ID: <1131@unocss.UUCP> Date: 25 Jul 89 22:14:54 GMT References: <1645@sactoh0> Sender: news@unocss.UUCP Reply-To: ho@fergvax.unl.edu Lines: 33 From article <1645@sactoh0>, by brent@sactoh0 (Brent K. Barrett): > 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 > 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. This isn't a bug, it's a "feature". Telix 3.11 was designed for BBS use, and so includes provisions for a Compu$erve Quick-B autodownload. Unfortunately, CISB's initiation sequence is simply a ^E, to which the receiving program (if it supports autodownload) replies with something like an ESC, an ENQ, a 0, and some other crud... maybe. That's what they're getting. Go into the Alt-O Options menu. One of those screens (Protocol options? Terminal options? General options? I left CI$ in a huff, and forgot) has a line that says "Compuserve Quick B transfers? Yes/NO". Set it to no. > 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. You apparently have that flag set off. --- ... Michael Ho, University of Nebraska