Msg: 2947 *Conference*
08-01-92 15:57:47
From: DAVID FIRTH
To : RICHARD HANSON
Subj: REPLY TO MSG #2938 (DOWNLOAD/CSIS?)
Continuing about CIS ... I agree that it is not CIS's fault that their system is considered hard to use by many, especially new users. To allow access by a wide variety of computers, a text-based command system is mandatory. After all, CIS was started when many people only had "dumb" terminals and modems. CP/M was king (I know, what's that?) and there was no standard computer. The carrot used to learn your way around CIS is that knowing where you are going saves you valuable $$$/minute online time. I use both CIS and GEnie once per week for about 30 minutes each and find their computer services very useful. . As far as downloading, I have no trouble with using the M100. I perform only ASCII transfers, since I have not found an M100 xmodem that'll run reliably for me. A trick I use is to get through the CIS prompts to the last prompt, protocol, I think, and then activate DL on my M100. All I need to do then is hit the enter key, which completes the prompt answer that I typed in previously.