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From: pechter@scr1.UUCP (Bill Pechter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Telix 3.11 bug?
Message-ID: <432@scr1.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jul 89 21:34:58 GMT
References: <1645@sactoh0>
Reply-To: pechter@scr1.UUCP (Bill Pechter)
Organization: CONCURRENT COMPUTER,OCEANPORT NJ
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In article <1645@sactoh0> brent@sactoh0.UUCP (Brent K. Barrett) writes:
>
> 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's not a bug -- it's a feature 8 - )

Turn off the auto-cis download feature.  CIS uses the ENQ for a
protocol initializer which is quite nice on CIS, but it's a problem 
elsewhere.  Telix'll work just fine after that.


Bill

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