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From: neil@atari.UUcp (Neil Harris)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: Atari BBS and Download in ASCII format
Message-ID: <283@atari.UUcp>
Date: Mon, 19-May-86 14:23:17 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 19 14:23:17 1986
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Summary: Atari Corp. BBS... 408-745-5308

In article <186@bridge2.UUCP>, pvf@bridge2.UUCP (Paul V. Fries) writes:
> When I heard about the Atari BBS, I could stand it no
> longer, deciding that I could write a simple terminal emulator
> with ASCII download capability pretty quickly myself.  Well,
> Friday night I tried it.  On my first attempt, none of the
> downloaded files would run, all giving "TOS Error 34" or
> something like that.  Well, it seemed that there was an extra byte
> at the start of every downloaded file that was pushing the
> remainder of the file off.  I decided to try simply
> discarding out the extraneous byte.  VOILA, working programs!
> 
> Anybody know what the garbage character is or why it is there
> (incidentally, the character seemed always to be 0x12)?

I would not be surprised if the BBS tries to send a CTRL Q at the start of
an ASCII transmission.  But wouldn't that be a 0x11?  Strange...  Anyhow,
if it works, don't argue, right?

> Other than that, I am really happy to have a hook into Atari for
> PD software.  There are some really cute things available, and
> it was well worth the work.  (I am especially pleased as I live 
> in Mountain View, the next town over from Sunnyvale, so the phone
> call is cheap.)  Thank you Neil!

You're welcome!  Now if only someone would come up with a way to get 4 (or
even 8) phone lines into 1 ST, with appropriate BBS software, then we
wouldn't have to do so much work...

By the way, has anyone come up with a uuencode program that runs on the ST
yet?  What are you waiting for?

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