Re: To net or not to net...that is the question

> > and not do a thing.  I'm still trying to understand why I would want to
> > register if all I get is...nothing?  (Oh WHOOPIE, someone can download a QW
>
> The main reason I registered was to get rid of that bothersome pause at
> connect, and to get a VirtualNet node address.  I believe the Net things is
> the main area that the shareware sticks ya - its also nice to be able to
> create more than one message base and file base area.

     Well, I don't mind the delay...   The only thing that affects me now,
is the limited number/type of nets I can carry.  Right now, I can create more
than one message/file base/topic area.  (I have 15 local message bases, and
22 local file bases....  as well as a Net I am running, with 23 bases to
itself as well...  But yeh, I'd like to be able to get other nets than the
one I run, and VNET...   (And I pry will register soon...  I just won't like
the way things are done...)

> Here is the answer to your problem (or at least how I got around it).  I went
> to campus at night (while evening classes were being held) and found the lab
> assistant and said...hey...open up S140 for me would ya...I want to print a
> report on the Laserjet.  The guy asked me why I didn't just use a lab that
> was already open - I just said that my report was of a fair size and I (being

     Hah!  This is a great idea....  perhaps I will try it... 

> True.  Very true.  7.x sourcecode is not complete, however.

     Really?  I'd heard that Rdg only gave you control over certain parts of
the code...  (for obvious reasons, he wouldn't want to give out the routine
that handled the registration code checking.. )"/>...but I also believe he
doesn't give you all the data types for messages/file base setups. (in
vconfig....)  Not the greatest thing to do to people I think....  I'd like to
be able to write my own utilities for VBBS....(Actually, just got Visual
Basic for Windows a little bit ago, and have been working on a user editor..)
But I wouldn't be able to write a 'VAREA for Windows' as Rdg doesn't give you
the source code pertaining to that....

> If it's off topic, I don't mind hearing about it.  Yeah - a menu driven,
> graphical sysop/setup/monitoring software would be great!  Something like

     I know I'd prefer something actually written specifically for Windows
that haveing to tinker with .PIF's and such...  makes no sense whatsoever to
hold back on a pure Win version.  (Or at LEAST write come utilities for
Windows...like the user editor, a vconfig, etc etc)
     Oh well, we can hope eh?    Anyways, I guess it isn't a terrible
situation right now, just not the greatest.  'Till later!
EDGE

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