Star Tech Journal

March 1995
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STAR*TECH
Tech Library
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VERSION
Journal
2.3 HAS BEEN INSTALLED ON
STAR* TECH Journal's
Tech Library comes
complete with every
service manual
published.
STJ's88S
A brief overview of the new STAR*TECH]ournal
Bbs features recently installed:
SAVE OVER
1) If you're reading messages
online, you can now move back-
wards in the message chain.
(Something you'd expect from
day one, but in this case it's a long-
awaited improvement.)
2) No more of those annoying
"New, Forward, Backward", "first
message is nnn", and so-forth
prompts for those who just want
to log on, read the new messages,
and log off.
EAD automatically reads
new messages and jumps to
ext, uit, or to
continue and pauses after each.
ONTINUOUS also auto-
matically reads new messages, but
with no pause; for people who
want to capture the entire stream
on their hard drive and read
offline without using an offline
reader.
4) The THER file area fea-
tures a color presentation that
scrolls up and down, allows
searches within the current area
or across all areas. (Not yet imple-
mented in the STAR*TECHjour-
nalBbs because it requires that the
caller's terminal emulation be set
a certain way: VTlO0 and ANSI.
Even though 99-44/100% of all
comm programs support this, the
caller must set the right switches.
And since we're not 1000/o sure of
the consequences of not doing so
-it 'should' just revert to a
kludgier, line-oriented presenta-
tion, but this thing is new and you
never know until it's been kicked
around by a few thousand varied
users. But, STAR*TECH journal
will eventually install this en-
hancement when it's safe to do
so.)
Time to log on and see the im-
provements first-hand. Got a coin-
op problem that's been bugging
you? Post it on the board -maybe
someone else has solved it and the
answer will be waiting for your
next logon. See ya on the 'board'.
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STAR*TECH
Journal's
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New Database packed
with additional features!
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#1701
MuRPHY's
The
time available
to go fishing
shrinks
as the
fishing season
draws nearer.