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Sb: #43353-#PC-TALK III ADVICE
    05-Jun-84  21:09:13
Fm: Wes Meier (SysOp) 70215,1017
To: Tim Colling     72446,2007 (X)

Tim ---- Hmmmmmmmm.....Well, I don't know if you've seen PCT-365, but it sure
looks "official" enough to have fooled me! Damn! Here I was rejoicing in the
thought that my (buggy) Split Screen mod was destined for "official"
immortality. Hehe, the "bugs" are worse in the PCT-365 version than in my
PC3SC.MRG version. Oh well.....

                        - Wes

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Sb: #43409-PC-TALK III ADVICE
    07-Jun-84  00:01:17
Fm: Jim Gainsley    70346,457
To: Wes Meier (SysOp) 70215,1017

Wes: I did the PCT365 and the code is exactly yours just merged in. The only
extension I made was to provide an auto clear for the msg line. Didn't make any
other changes, cuz I didn't find any problems to correct, works great. Also,
Headlands did preview it before I upld it to any BBS.

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Sb: PC-TALK III ADVICE
    07-Jun-84  02:26:00
Fm: Jim Gainsley    70346,457
To: Tim Colling

Sorry for any confusion Tim. PCT365.MRG is simply a collection of various .MRG
files in the PD for this program plus some of my own work. In doing this I
liked and followed the lead of John Chapmen in his PCT36.MRG i.e. a
sufficiently large number of changes in MRG form is given a higher version
number.  
Note the file is .MRG file and not a complete program.  Headlands did preview
the PCT365 and accompanying .DOC rev. file prior to my uplg it to BBS's. 
I asked them to do this, since I altered their logon screen, and simply was 
also interested in their opinion, which was favorable. 
BUT, I didn't and don't mean to imply anything 'official' about it.  The only
significant problem with it follows from the fact that it doesn't consider 
the DTR requirement of the 1200B internal Hayes. (In May, Hayes did release
another ver of the 1200B, which has the switches. Dan Frank wrote a good mod
called FIX365.MRG which fixes the code causing a disconnect when the 1200B 
is used, when in the XMODEM module (PCT365 incorporates a .MRG mod that auto
changes to 8N1 and back again after xfer). However, it doesn't correct for
the Alt-P module, which will still cause a disconnect for the 1200B. A
hardware fix called 1200BDTR.FIX is out which will disable the 1200B's DTR
requirement altogether.  (After having upld the PCT365 and then finding out
about the 1200B DTR problem of which I was unaware, I built a .LBR file which
contains these two fix files alonalong with the others in the PCT365 series.
The reason I didn't simply mrg Frank's file in was because it didn't solve the
whole problem i.e. in the Alt-P module. And, cuz many will have the new 1200B
which doesn't suffer from the problem.)  How's that for a long paragraph!

I'd be interested in knowing of any bugs you found in the splitscreen or
otherwise.  I've been playing the new CIS XMODEM facility called XFILTR in the
PER.  I've used the PCT365.LBR (CIS requires that it be called PCT365.BIN) and
right now it's made it as far as ACCESS. We'll see if it gets here. It's 330
blocks and took about 20 minutes with CIS's current beta implementation. But
that's another story.