RALPH@UHHEPG.BITNET (06/02/89)
Date: 1-JUN-1989 22:08:08.54 From: Ralph Becker-Szendy RALPH AT UHHEPG To: GATEWAY::"info-cpm@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil" Subj: FLAME: Patch-instructions for MEX,MDM7,IMP versus QTERM Sorry ... this contains no information but is just a flame: I had a pretty hard time adapting MEX to my (very self-built) computer system, and eventually gave up. The reason is probably not so much with me (quite a bit of assembler experience, my own BIOS, etc), but with the documentation: There is no reasonable instruction for writing MEX overlay files ! Same applies to MDM7 and IMP, which use essentially the same format for their overlays. All I found were instructions which overlay applies to which computer/modem combination, and how to install overlays. No help if you have to write your own overlay. I had nearly given up on XMODEM communications when I found QTERM on SIMTEL. And there were completely clear patch instructions in the QPATCH.DOC file in the QTERM library. Getting it up and running should now take only a few hours at worst ! Dear authors of MEX, MDM7, IMP and suchlike: Are you listening ? Can something be done to remedy the situation ?? And if not, does some guru out there have such patch instruction for MEX which could be uploaded to SIMTEL ??? Sorry again for taking network bandwith for a FLAME. Ralph Becker-Szendy RALPH@UHHEPG.PHYS.HAWAII.EDU University of Hawaii / High Energy Physics Group RALPH@UHHEPG.BITNET Watanabe Hall #203, 2505 Correa Road, Honolulu, HI 96822 (808)948-7391