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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Atalk III 1.0e
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Date: 18 Jan 89 18:29:21 GMT
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In article <10833@watdragon.waterloo.edu> m230bw89@trillium.waterloo.edu (Scotte Zinn) writes:
>
>
>I recently purchased a copy of ATalk III (rev1.0e) and had a few problems
>with it as well as a few things that weren't thought out in its design.
>
>A got ATalk III running, then started the following ARexx script:
>
>	/*  This tests the REXX stuff */
>	address ATK
>	CD "download:"
>	SEND "ATS0=0^M"	<----- ****
>	address
>
>The results were:
>	The directory was not changed in the file requestor.  (Maybe not a
>	bug, but certainly an inconvenience since the file requestors started
>	from DF0: even when the program was run from a hard drive)
>
>	The AA light on my HAYES compatible modem didn't go out nor did I
>	see the OK response.  (No characters were sent from the modem at all)

Sorry, but you should have RTFM, dude!  The SEND command sends a FILE not
a string.  The REPLY command sends a string (Online! also uses REPLY". So
the send just failed since I doubt that you have a file named ATS0=0^M :-)
Of course you could hardly see anything showing up on your modem, you didn't
send ANYTHING to it.  Also you need quotes in general for ARexx scripts
so as to avoid clashes with ARexx command names.  The CD command will
change the directory for next SEND and RECEIVE (of course given with a "real"
filename.

>Another inconvenience, the phone book could be called up via a keyboard
>shortcut, but once on the phone book screen, you have to use a mouse!!  Come
>on you guys, don't implement the power user features half heartedly!
                                  ^^^^^^^^^^
Yea, you are the "power user" that tries to use a script language without
even reading its syntax?  What a "power user"!

>Needless to say, I have returned ATalkIII to the store I bought it from and
>will wait patiently for a terminal program that will do things reliably.

I am glad you did.

>I did like most of the interface that ATalkIII had.

Who cares, "power user".

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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