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   ED KOON to JOHN GUILLORY   
   RE: Gateway 2000   
   04 Oct 14 19:47:22   
   
   > ->  JG> --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5   
   > ->  JG>  * Origin: KF5QEO's Shack (1:396/60)   
   >    
   >     Cool, I was kinda wondering what it looked like... ;-)     
   Since I got   
   > everything moved over to winserver, I had kinda wondered on    
   a few places   
   > if it was coming out right or what... Didn't get any    
   complaints, so I   
   > figured must have something semi-right.  I'm hoping to get    
   my AUP   
   > re-enabled and upgrade to the latest v7.    
   >    
   > -> Ed "DOC" Koon - Sysop   
   >    
   > -> ... Doc's Place BBS Online Fidonet Since 1991!   
   > -> --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5   
   > ->  * Origin: Check Out Doc's QWK Mail  Via Web BBS >    
   DocsPlace.org    
   > (1:123/140)   
   >    
   > I really wished they'd release an update to PXW!  There's a    
   few things   
   > I've got working flakey... I just appeared to get my tic    
   files working.   
   > I don't know enough on the tic format to know if the problem    
   lies on my   
   > uplink's processor, a configuration, or pxw's import.  It    
   really don't   
   > matter though, because I've used TICK (the original program)    
   and had no   
   > issues with marc's system before, nor did I have problems    
   with robert's   
   > system.  Now, most of Robert's tic files auto-import fine,    
   while marc's   
   > act like they don't even exist... No errors, no messages,    
   just acts like   
   > there are no files in the tic directory!  I just wrote a    
   small pascal   
   > program that does a few things.  It looks for a line that    
   says "Seenby   
   > 1:396/60" and if its there, it basically deletes that line.     
   It also   
   > looks for the password line (Pw password), if it finds it,    
   it changes   
   > the password to upper case just in case (why oh why my    
   uplinks all use   
   > lowercase and pxconfig only allows uppercase!)  Last, it    
   renames the   
   > .tic file to all lower case.  Don't ask why, but these are    
   the only   
   > differences I can find in robert and marc's tic files...   I    
   have a few   
   > other miissues... When compiling the nodelist on windows/xp,    
   it    
   > crashes with a divide by zero at the end, on windows 8, it    
   can compile   
   > all the way with out  2012. It's old outdated code nobody    
   uses any longer.    
      
   Regards,  Doc.  errors... Don't know...   
      
   I doubt Santronics will ever update PXW and WC7 has been in    
   beta since 2012. It's old outdated code nobody uses any    
   longer.    
      
   Regards, Doc.    
   --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5   
    * Origin: Check Out Doc's QWK Mail  Via Web BBS > DocsPlace.org  (1:123/140)   

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