#: 13831 S5/OS9 Users Group 04-Jan-92 21:06:28 Sb: #13729-Sources for Info Sheet Fm: George Dorner 70536,106 To: edward langenback 73510,145 edward - thanks for the info. I will put it in the info sheet I am putting together. Most of the inquiries I have to answer are not for COCO users, but this info will help anyway. geo #: 13832 S5/OS9 Users Group 04-Jan-92 21:06:31 Sb: #13737-Sources for Info Sheet Fm: George Dorner 70536,106 To: John Wight 76370,2100 OK, John, I will look at the OS-9 CN stuff and advise. Thanks. geo #: 13833 S5/OS9 Users Group 04-Jan-92 21:06:36 Sb: #13758-Sources for Info Sheet Fm: George Dorner 70536,106 To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X) Steve: Thanks for the reply. I will integrate your response into the info sheet. I work at a college and formerly had access to the internet from there, but we are currently undergoing some changes which have us "off the air." I will check wuarchive when we get back on (soon, I hope.) geo #: 14443 S5/OS9 Users Group 29-Feb-92 11:02:35 Sb: #OS9CN Fm: Jim Sutemeier 70673,1754 To: all I have read carefully the ocnn.0192 file which I obtained from Delphi. (Even printed out a hard copy on my printer so I could read it more carefully). At first read through of the by-laws of the organization, I thought (still do) that the organization appears to be well set up, and most every detail has been well covered. Whoever wrote these by-laws should be congratulated on a job well done. A couple of points stick in my mind, however, after having read this 'edition' of the NetNews. Why were there no other "Portions" mentioned in 17B? Is this because the OS9CN is going to be strictly a domain of FidoNet and RiBBS? I know for a fact that none of the StG SysOp's were contacted about their BBS being part of the OS9CN, and I suspect that none of the AcBBS BBS's were, either. While RiBBS is the 'biggie' of the networking CoCo BBS's at this time, asking AcBBS and StG BBS's to join into the OS9CN would net an additional 30 (or so) BBS's, thus giving the OS9CN a wider potential user base. The point here is that the more people, networks, etc., you contact and set up, the more 'dominant' you become. RiBBS/FidoNet are not the entire world of OS9, there is UseNet, and the other OS9 BBS's that network that should be contacted. If you feel I am being a little 'touchy' on this apparent OS9CN/RiBBS tie-in, might I call you attention to the fact that the NetNews I have just read contains the laws and by-laws of the organization, followed immediately by an apparently complete listing of RiBBS Systems. By attaching that listing to the 'official rules and regulations' ANY user would say that RiBBS and OS9CN are connected to each other. There are 2 Replies. #: 14502 S5/OS9 Users Group 06-Mar-92 03:03:17 Sb: #14443-OS9CN Fm: John Wight 76370,2100 To: Jim Sutemeier 70673,1754 (X) Sorry if we gave you that impression, but actually the opposite is the case. One example is that I came here regularly to exchange information on behalf of the OS-9 Community Network. We are also brainstorming ways to regularly exchange information with those on other networks such as Internet, Usenet, UUCP, Stgnet, Rime, ACBBS network, and there are most likely others. What we need is volunteers to help us brainstorm how to make these gateways come about. For example, MS-DOS systems are capable of handing both Fidonet mail and UUCP mail, as well as other networks. So if we took advantage of those OS-9 fans that run BBS systems on MS-DOS systems, we could make this exchange of information automatic. We do have a few volunteers that are sending information for us to some of the other popular networks. But we do not want The OS-9 Community Network to be based only in Fidonet, as there are members of the OS-9 Community on almost any network. For those of us that use OS-9 on the COCO, using RiBBS and Fidonet is the most feasible and economical way to go (for most of us), and Australian OS-9 users have already joined us on Fidonet. If someone will offer ideas of better ways to do it, or ideas on gatewaying, we are all ears! #: 14503 S5/OS9 Users Group 06-Mar-92 03:06:26 Sb: #14443-OS9CN Fm: John Wight 76370,2100 To: Jim Sutemeier 70673,1754 (X) By the way, StG and ACBBS members have both been contacted long before you left this message. Alan Sheltra was the one I contacted for StG, and he said the author would attempt a port to Fidonet. I have yet to get a response from Carmen Izzi, but have gotten responses from users of ACBBS echo areas. It is slow going but we are keeping these things in mind. #: 14896 S5/OS9 Users Group 10-Apr-92 01:12:46 Sb: OS9CN Membership Fm: Tom Birt 76640,1205 To: Mark Sours Got your mail. Please include your phone number and machine types you use for OS-9. Tom #: 16350 S5/OS9 Users Group 31-Aug-92 02:33:47 Sb: #15772-#announcement Fm: John Wight 76370,2100 To: Carl Kreider 71076,76 (X) Hello, Carl. Sorry for the delay in the reply, but I thought you might like to know OS-9 CN and myself are still around. Look for articles in the latest issue of OS-9 Underground about OS-9 CN. I feel the OS-9 community needs both the services of the OS-9 Users' Group and OS-9 CN, as both can reach where the other can't. One of my priorities right now is to come up with a reliable means of communications between those of us on Fidonet, and those that reside on UUCP, Internet, Bitnet, etc. As you may or may not know, I lost my feed to Internet, and as a result, our communications stopped. However, my communications with those in Fidonet is still quite reliable. There are those of you that communicate on the other networks that have miscellaneous problems communicating on Fidonet for whatever reason, for example, I suspect that in your case, you don't have a local Fidonet node where you can access the COCO and OS-9 related echos. As for the Internet family of networks, many of us COCO users either can't find an Internet feed, or can't afford it, while Fidonet is very accessible to anyone with OS-9 and RiBBS (the only Fidonet software available for OS-9). On the other hand, many can access the Internet family of networks, and don't see the need to deal with Fidonet and Ribbs. These are the type of communications problems I hope that we as a community can resolve, and I really think we can, as the OS-9 community is very special and capable of solving any such problems. Any help or ideas you or anyone else can give me on this would sure be appreciated. There is 1 Reply. #: 16355 S5/OS9 Users Group 31-Aug-92 22:17:17 Sb: #16350-announcement Fm: Carl Kreider 71076,76 To: John Wight 76370,2100 Thanks for the reply. Like I've said before, the communication issue is a big bite to chew! ;) You are right that I haven't a clue where to find a FIDO node. You were going to look into that and let me know. But if there is no OSK software (is that what you just said?) then it is moot. #: 16485 S5/OS9 Users Group 20-Sep-92 22:06:45 Sb: #16355-#announcement Fm: John Wight 76370,2100 To: Carl Kreider 71076,76 (X) There is software available for COCO OS-9 Level 2 users that want to get involved in Fidonet as sysops. There are some that are speaking of porting RiBBS into the OSK environment, but last I heard this was yet to be realized. There might be other software written in C that could be ported from the IBM environment to OSK, but I am no expert on C, and can't say for sure how easy this would be. I do have your address, and I will look for the Fidonet node closest to you, so that you can start communicating with those of us that reside on Fidonet. In the meantime, I may be getting my Internet feed back very soon, which will make my communications with other networks much easier. You will be among the first I will contact when I get my Internet feed back. There is 1 Reply. #: 16487 S5/OS9 Users Group 20-Sep-92 22:44:49 Sb: #16485-announcement Fm: Carl Kreider 71076,76 To: John Wight 76370,2100 Sounds good John. I wait eagerly. #: 17230 S5/OS9 Users Group 07-Dec-92 23:46:02 Sb: #OS9 Underground Fm: BOB LEET 72020,2536 To: all Does anyone know Alan Sheltra's Internet address? I see that he is not on CIS, but wondered if maybe I could send him a message via Internet (maybe to Delphi or Genie?). Thanks, Bob////// There is 1 Reply. #: 17232 S5/OS9 Users Group 08-Dec-92 23:08:50 Sb: #17230-OS9 Underground Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 To: BOB LEET 72020,2536 Bob, to contact Alan Shetra try >internet:zog!sysop@abode.ttank.com Bob. my VED editor. I was real confused for awhile--I had the arguments backwards. To send the sequence you do (assuming that CS is the ptr to the 'cs' string): putpad(tgoto(CS,number_of_lines,top_line)); Sending a LF at the bottom line will cause scrolling to occur in the region. Are you going to post your termcap info? I have the O'Reilly book as a reference and it seems quite complete. The only problem supporting this on the MM/1 and VT100 is that to simulate this with Kwindows you need to do a CWAREA(topline,0,numlines,ncols). I was going to be tricky and define a 'cs' for kwindows. But it won't work--you have to send binary 0's for the top line and left column...and ya can't send a NULL in a termcap string . So I end up with two routines.