Subject: ASCII Transfers

From: Raymond Reese <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 00:33:27 -0800 (PST)

I use TELIX v3.22 to communicate with the Pine System at the Kitsap
Regional Library and a I have a serious problem.

Apparently, the Pine system, when in the mode to accept hand typed
messages, will not accept ASCII transfers. This makes it very difficult to
send pre-made messages.

Also, from time to time what I am typing gets bounced around to different
places on the screen and sometimes overtypes what is already there,
including the header, not to mention the characters that occure that I
dont type (resembling control codes and the like).

Just for the record, this connect has been doing the above mentioned
things and my connection rate is at 1200, in spite of trying to connect at
33.6k. When the connection was made, it first showed a rate of 26.4k.
Something is wrong and/or confusing.

BTW, ASCII Transfers are really very important to me. I am also not very
please with the commands that require Control-this and Control-that. I run
a BBS on a Commodore and even that computer accepts Cursor keys along with
the standard . (dot) or / (slash) codes used in BBSes and wordprocessors.

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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 11:19:59 -0600 (CST)

>From: Raymond Reese <[email-masked]>
>Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 00:33:27 -0800 (PST)

>Regional Library and a I have a serious problem.

The current version of Telix for DOS is 3.51.

>messages, will not accept ASCII transfers. This makes it very difficult to

You are attempting this while in the pine composer? There is nothing to
configure on the pine end. It can't even be blocked in the system
configuration. As far as pine can tell, it is equivalent to accepting input
from your keyboard via your terminal emulation. It works on my system.

It is possible that you corrupted Telix. Try to install the current version.

>dont type (resembling control codes and the like).

What terminal emulation did you choose? Use vt102, and make sure your TERM is
set correctly in your shell.

>Something is wrong and/or confusing.

Surely, you know that your connection rate has nothing whatsoever to do with
pine. I cannot help you on this mailing list.

>the standard . (dot) or / (slash) codes used in BBSes and wordprocessors.

What the hell are Cursor keys? If your terminal emulation were set correctly,
you could use the Arrow keys, or at your option, the Function keys in lieu of
Control key combinations for many tasks. pine can bind the Delete key itself,
and you could bind Home or End yourself within the Telix program.