Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!dptg!att!chinet!edlee
From: edlee@chinet.chi.il.us (Edward Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Telix 3.11 bug?
Message-ID: <9084@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 27 Jul 89 09:37:53 GMT
References: <1645@sactoh0> <1131@unocss.UUCP>
Reply-To: edlee@chinet.chi.il.us (Edward Lee)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <1131@unocss.UUCP> ho@fergvax.unl.edu writes:
>[....]
>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.

This explanation is quite plausible.  I have installed a line noise filter
today and have set the CIS B auto-download switch to OFF in Telix.
The noise filter works well, and I will discuss it in another article.


-Ed L