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- From: vporguen@unlinfo.unl.edu (victor porguen)
- Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
- Subject: Decrippling Telix v3.20 Script-Learning
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 05:11:05 GMT
- Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
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- Distribution: world
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- Keywords: Telix Shareware Crippling Script Telecommunications
-
- In a previous posting, I complained about the crippling of
- Script-Learning in Telix v3.20. I've since discovered the SLEARN
- v2.0 utility by Paul Roub, which offers the missing function.
- It can be integrated within Telix perfectly.
-
- Slearn is available on the Telix BBS itself for public download.
- This means we can bypass the crippling in Telix through the use
- of Slearn. Legally and ethically correct, since they are
- distributing it themselves.
-
- Slearn will not only "learn" and create simple scripts (which Telix
- 3.2 is supposed to do but doesn't, because it's crippled), but will
- even offer to compile them for you. That's what I call good service.
-
- Unfortunately, Slearn itself is crippled! There is a function
- (Files Downloading) which is turned off in the "shareware version",
- as the author calls it.
-
- (I wondered how they disabled that. I found that Slearn.exe
- always turns off the Zmodem autodownload feature IN TELIX by
- setting the Telix _zmod_auto_ function to 0 and substituting
- it for DSZ, but the DSZ call is in turn not enabled. Strange,
- isn't it? I didn't like that. Since _zmod_auto_ is a user-
- toggled function, I don't think Paul Roub has any business
- turning it OFF and leaving it off in my copy of Telix for the
- sole purpose of enticing me to buy his program... But that's
- another problem. Another crippling problem! Crippling stinks)
-
- With Slearn, Telix behaves, I imagine, more or less as it would have
- behaved if its script-learning feature hadn't been crippled, and
- comes closer to its competitor's (Qmodem) abilities. Of course, we
- can't really make the comparison, because we don't really know
- whether the built-in (but crippled) Telix feature works or not.
-
- The Telix keypress that should activate Script Learning (if it
- hadn't been crippled), is Alt-9. So we have to tie SLEARN to the
- Telix Alt-9 keypress. That's easy; the Telix Manual says that
- Function Keys may be redefined to activate named scripts, by
- starting the definition with the "@" character. Well, not only
- Function keys but other keys, including the Alt-9 combination, can
- be redefined in this way, it turns out.
-
- So simply redefine Alt-9 to be "@SLEARN" and... voila! Legally and
- ethically de-crippled Telix v3.2, capable of script-learning.
- Works, too. Even compiles scripts. Unfortunately, this decrippling
- is itself crippled, so... oh gosh, I give up.
-
- P.S. You should register the whole thing, i.e., Telix+Slearn
- IF YOU USE THEM but, in the meantime, at least you can test
- them and see if you like what they do! After all, that's
- what shareware is all about.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------
- This is a shareware message. To register, send me $5.
-
- I had to cripple this message to encourage registrations.
- But if you register, you will receive a more complete
- message, explaining how to decripple Slearn also.
-
- The Trial period is 1 day. After that, you must either
- register or erase this message from your disk. But
- please give copies to some friends before you erase it.
- -----------------------------------------------------------------
-
- (just kidding)
-
- You didn't like the above, did you? Precisely. That's how one
- feels when running across the Telix/Slearn/etc. cripplings.
-
-