Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU!GTHEALL
From: GTHEALL@PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU (George A. Theall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Rainbow Echomail Digest
Message-ID: <8910201136.AA15381@remote.dccs.upenn.edu>
Date: 20 Oct 89 12:34:00 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 103

Rainbow Echomail Digest                      OCT 20, 1989

In this issue:
   RE: RAINBOW USERS UNITE!!
   RAINBOW USERS UNITED!!!
   PIBTERM 3.2.5 (RAINBOW VE


  Articles posted to either INFO-DEC-MICRO or comp.sys.dec.micro are
currently gatewayed automatically to the Rainbow Echo on Fidonet; thus,
you do need not to take any special action to respond to articles in
these digests.

  Please send reports of problems or suggestions for improvement of this
digest to GTHEALL@PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU (ARPA Internet).
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date:      10-19-89 (09:48)
Subject:  RE: RAINBOW USERS UNITE!!
From:      GEORGE THEALL

DS>OK, OK... I am the moderator, and I *DO* approve of *ALL* links so
DS>long as users and sysops of this echo encur no extra costs because of the
DS>link. This is to say that if a sysop wants to spend his money to link into
DS>another source, that's fine, but the cost should be their's - not other use
DS>or sysops.
DS>
DS>Hope that help clarify things...

  Thanks for the clarification. Bill and I are planning to make some
tests of the CIS and INFO-DEC-MICRO/comp.sys.dec.micro linkup in the
coming week. There's still a lot of details for us to work out, but I'm
glad to hear we can proceed with the Rainbow Echomail gateway as well!

  A minor quibble - by "no extra costs" do you mean to exclude any
bi-directional links with Fido? I expect sysops are indeed incurring some
extra costs because of additional message volume caused by my posting of
messages from INFO-DEC-MICRO/comp.sys.dec.micro. Not that the increase
has been that much, but it is passed along to all others that receive
this echo.

George
---
 ~ EZ-Reader 1.21 ~ Share the road with a bicyclist
------------------------------
Date:      10-19-89 (09:48)
Subject:  RAINBOW USERS UNITED!!!
From:      GEORGE THEALL

DS>GT>(Several people have emailed me
DS>GT>directly asking that I send them the graphics programs from Dover
DS>GT>Graphics, for example.) Any suggestions for minimizing the problem wrt
DS>GT>messages gatewayed to this echo?
DS>GT>
DS>
DS>A program would be the smartest idea, but I'm not sure exact;y who
DS>would write it, or how it would work. I log onto CIS about twice a year...


  I've already developed a quick & dirty AWK program to digest (burb! :-)
the messages from this echo. It does certainly simplify things. Either
Bill or I will do a similar thing for IDM/csdm messages sent to CIS. As
for messages posted here, is there a size limit? Do people generally
distinguish between my messages (like now) and messages I'm simply
gatewaying from IDM/csdm? I've been using a separate tagline for the
latter (Mail from INFO-DEC-MICRO/comp.sys.dec.micro) plus embedding some
of the original message headers yet have some people when replying to
these gatewayed messages say "Well, George, in response to your query, ..."

George
---
 ~ EZ-Reader 1.21 ~ TXIRRINGAK? Bai, eskerrik asko!
------------------------------
Date:      10-19-89 (09:48)
Subject:  PIBTERM 3.2.5 (RAINBOW VE
From:      GEORGE THEALL

DM>Going through my pile of disks, I came across Pibterm 3.2.5.  I really like
DM>the package, I found it just in time for a project that I had to do with
DM>the Rainbow and some electronic mail service.
DM>
DM>Well to get on with it, the point of this message is that the documentation
DM>indicated that the source for Pibterm should be distributed with the execut
DM>So here is the question... Does anyone have the sources to Pibterm(most
DM>recent version for the 'bow) available for File Request?

  I've never used PIBTerm, but I see it's available from a file archive
on SIMTEL20. The latest version appears to be v4.1 (release date of
March '88). If you don't get a response from others, I'll retrieve the
source for this (probably IBM specific) version for you. Here's what I
see:

  PIBT41S1.ARC  210K  BIN  03/25/88  Pibterm 4.1 source (T Pascal) 1 of 4
  PIBT41S2.ARC  228K  BIN  03/25/88  Pibterm 4.1 source (T Pascal) 2 of 4
  PIBT41S3.ARC  200K  BIN  03/25/88  Pibterm 4.1 source (T Pascal) 3 of 4
  PIBT41S4.ARC  227K  BIN  03/25/88  Pibterm 4.1 source (T Pascal) 4 of 4

Perhaps you can hack this for the Rainbow. I'll also get the docs to see
whether this stuff includes support for the Rainbow.

George
---
 ~ EZ-Reader 1.21 ~ Fahrrad fahren, Energie sparen
------------------------------