Ultrasound Daily Digest     Sun Jul  4 00:07     Volume 4: Issue  33  

Today's Topics:
						  AIL DUNE2 no work
						 alt.gravis.complain
						 day of the tentacle
				  GRAVIS Disks arrive in Halifax....
					  GUS Disks and Canada Post
						 John Smith's Mailbox
					 Places to get a GUS, etc...
					Please send in your reg. cards
								stuff
				   Syndicate working fine for me...
					Ultrasound Daily Digest V4 #32
		   Ultrasound Internet Archives - Big Announcement
	   Ultrasound Internet Archives - Mailserver Documentation
						WCII SBOS SETTINGS!!!
		What's happened to epas?/Alternatives to epas & dune2

Standard Info:
	- Meta-info about the GUS can be found at the end of the Digest.
	- Before you ask a question, please READ THE FAQ.

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Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1993 04:21:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: impster@umcc.umich.edu (Charles Budensiek)
Subject: Re: AIL DUNE2 no work
Message-ID: <m0oC2qy-000AB1C@umcc.umich.edu>

[quote]
From: Matthew Spewak <Matthew.Spewak@lambada.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: AIL DUNE2 no work
Message-ID: <9307021754.AA19791@lambada.oit.unc.edu>

The dune2patch and ail drivers do not work correctly on my machine.  I
follow all the steps but when I play the game, it searches on my and b
floppies while it says initiallizing MT-32, and then quits saying not
enough memory.  I am sure I have enough memory though.

Has anyone gotten this to work with dune 2?

I run QEMM v.7, have 8 megs of ram and a microsoft mouse driver loaded.

Anyhelp?
[end quote]

Works fine on my machine <386-33 4 meg>

The only time I ever get the out of memory error is if I don't load ultramid
high. So try loading both your mouse and ultramid high if you can.

this sucks, since I normall load my CD-ROM drivers high, so I can't listen
to some music while playing Dune 2. Ah well...


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Date: Sat, 03 Jul 93 10:05:41 EDT
From: timkwan@Athena.MIT.EDU
Subject: alt.gravis.complain
Message-ID: <9307031405.AA03145@primavera>

Thomas Wong <twong@civil.ubc.ca> wrote:
 
|>Now Tim. You can scream, kick, go down to Gravis with
|>a machine gun and shoot everyone in sight. But the bottom line is, 
|>they've sent it all out. It's all in the hands of the postal service.
|>What DO you want them to the do? What CAN they do? 
							  
How do you KNOW they sent them *ALL* out?  Yeah, your comments 
were worth $0.02 cents alright!  Read my previous posting 
again.  I said I gave John Smith my _new_ address that first 
time and he replied saying that indeed the address was 
different from what was in their records, and that he would 
update it.  I thanked him for changing it and then continued 
to wait for the disks.  After a few weeks of waiting and 
seeing nothing in the mail, I wrote John Smith again and asked 
him what the hold up was.  I also included my new home address 
AGAIN just in case.  He wrote back and said that my address 
was different from what was in their records.  What is this??  
Did he not update it like he said he would after that first 
time I sent the address to him??  I am questioning the way 
Gravis operates.  It seems like they can't keep their records 
straight.  Why should you assume my package is in the mail 
when John Smith himself did NOT say that it was.  All he said 
was that "all the packages" have been mailed out.  So what?  
Does that include mine?  If so, why is it that I and a bunch 
of other people still have not received their disks??  Oh, 
sure, blame the postal service, but, quoting Francois Dion,
 
		"What is the problem here? Gravis, have you shipped ... 
or not?"
 
Quoting Marc Y. Paulin:
 
		"I'm getting TIRED of this!  We're in july and I never 
saw the color of the Gravis' Disks box.  I wrote to John Smith 
and he told me that I was in their database and my address was 
correct.  The question is: Did they sent a package with my 
name & address on it?"
 
Heavens, I haven't even gotten the new GM patches that Gravis 
said they would send out to their customers and that was way 
back in January or so.  Nada!  Zilch!
 
Suggestions?
 
1.      John Smith, go to your "records."  Look, scan, peruse, 
and study it and see if Gravis did or did not send out the 
disks to ME, to Marc, to the three people that contacted 
Francois, and to the God-knows-how-many others on the pissed 
list.  Articulate in *NON-VAGUE* terms whether the disks have 
been sent out to us.  If it was sent out, exactly WHAT DATE 
were they sent out on and to WHICH ADDRESS?  Or maybe Gravis 
does not keep a record of whom they sent out the disks to.  If 
that is the case, SAY SO.
 
2.      Send via e-mail uuencoded chunks of the software which 
has been pkzip'd with a password that is identical to the 
serial number of the GUS.  The user sends e-mail to John Smith 
with the serial number of the user's GUS, name, and home 
address (as additional verification).  Gravis then checks to 
see if the information is correct (gosh, I sure hope they have 
records bearing WHO has WHICH card) and forthwith sends the 
uuencoded, zipped software to the user.  We are interested in 
what is not already on epas such as Powerchords and Midisoft.
 
3.      Request the postal service to trace the packages (that 
is, *IF* indeed the disks have been sent to us).  But I bet 
the postal service will only attempt to trace it if Gravis can 
produce proof of their having sent a package to a particular 
person in question.  Can Gravis produce such information??
 
4.      Send the disks out _again_ to those who haven't 
received them yet and whose package failed to be traced by the 
postal service.
 
Bottom line: I WANT MY DISKS!!!!!!  And those of you who are 
pissed like me, flame on!!!!!!  Maybe we should start a new 
newsgroup called comp.gravis.good-service.not.
 
-Tim

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Date: Sun, 4 Jul 93 03:20:49 +0300
From: Shmuel Gazit <keeper@ccsg.tau.ac.il>
Subject: day of the tentacle
Message-ID: <9307040020.AA15153@ccsg.tau.ac.il>

Hi all ! (especially John Smith !!)


One suggested to try only UMBdriver with it, but the version I have
(does anyone have something newer than the one that was mentioned
by the uploader then ? it's two years old !!)
doesn't recognize my chipset (should have been 09 also I think).
with ANY mem-managers, or just himem, it get's stuck right on
the start. I did manage to get this (AWSOME !!!!!) game going
using sbos120, and NO mem-manager at all, but it still warns
it lacks 9KB.
I used it with the defaults on the Ultrasound, and my machine
is 386SX without anything fancy installed. X-wing, from the
same company worked OK.

Oh, nice work on the flashback patch, but the effects got lousy, 
so what did we gain ?

thanks,

/Itay.

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Date: Sat, 3 Jul 93 22:35:50 ADT
From: John William Spicer <spicerjw@tuns.ca>
Subject: GRAVIS Disks arrive in Halifax....
Message-ID: <9307040135.AA10664@orca.es.com>

HA! NOT!
Has anyone in Canada received the new (probably old by the time I finally see 
them) disk set yet?  I bought my Ultrasound last November and have been
patiently waiting for the General Midi pathces that were supposed to 
follow.  I know these patches are available through ftp sites, but when
I bought my GUS there was nothing on the box saying that internet access
was part of the system requirements!!  

Gravis, if you really did mail the disks to Canada, maybe you should get
after Canada Post to see what happened.  After all, you must of had too
pay a fair bit of money to mail all those disk.  i don't know about you
but when I give my money to a compay I expect to get service for it.
Is there any way we can find out more about what happened to the disks?

spicerjw@newton.tuns.ca

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Date: Sat, 3 Jul 93 9:44:08 EDT
From: akwong@ccs.carleton.ca (Adrian Kwong)
Subject: GUS Disks and Canada Post
Message-ID: <9307031344.AA18647.18647@alfred.ccs.carleton.ca>

Well people, Canada Post just doesn't seem to be in the right gear.  I
don't think all you people should be whining to Gravis about "wheres
my disks".  Truth of the matter is, they're stuck in Canada Post.
I've personally been "charged" on my credit card for a cable from
Toshiba (that darned XM3301 or 3401 Audio cable) over 4 weeks ago, and
lo and behold, I still haven't seen it in the mail.

So, better than bugging Gravis, write a letter to Canada Post and ask
them why "parcels" seem to take "forever".  Or, "an unreasonable
amount of time".  Since Toshiba is in the US, and I think the disks
are mailed from the US, this would appear to make sense.
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Date: Sun, 4 Jul 93 1:46:26 EDT
From: Jon Spewak <Jon.Spewak@lambada.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: John Smith's Mailbox
Message-ID: <9307040546.AA15747@lambada.oit.unc.edu>

Does anyone know how to reach John Smith privately, preferably through
private Internet e-mail.  What is his e-mail address?

Thanks... please reply via GUS digest or e-mail: Jon.Spewak@Launchpad.unc.edu

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Date: Sat, 03 Jul 93 22:11:29 EDT
From: pccmoddan@aol.com
Subject: Places to get a GUS, etc...
Message-ID: <9307032211.tn09881@aol.com>

Well, PC Expo was a very positive place for the GUS. Gravis' booth was quite
popular, and IMHO the most informative, personable, and well thought-out
booth of any of the sound card manufacturers (with Aztech Labs placing second
(they make better (and cheaper) CL products than Creative Labs does), Media
Vision a distant third, Creative Labs even further behind MVI, and Turtle
Beach utterly in last for having the largest booth, with the least real
information. (read: hype, glitz, and no substance; neither of the two boards
(Tahiti and Maui) bragged about are available, and they may not be till near
the end of the year)). 

Gravis' booth had a PC with a GUS in it hooked up to a Roland A-30 keyboard
controller and a DrumKat drum controller, a machine running several of the
Focal Point 3D demos (everything you've heard about the "Dentist" demo is
true; it *hurts!*), two machines running games (one running Strike Commander
with *native GUS support*, and the other running a large variety of games
with SBOS (Flashback, Wolf3D, etc), and a machine running a MIDI comparision
of the Sound Blaster 16 ASP and the GUS, a comparision that brought up
comments from onlookers like "That's a CD, right?" about the Gravis, and
quite a few chuckles about the beeps and bloops of the FM-synth based cards.
Also visible at the booth were four different CD-ROM controller
daughtercards, including three  proprietary cards (Sony & 2 others), and the
SCSI daughterboard, along with the long-awaited MIDI connector box, which
Brad Craig says will be available "very soon".  All in all, a very well done
effort by Gravis.

Some people have been asking "where can I get a GUS?" Here's a list of
several mail-order vendors; note that I am not associated with any of these,
nor with Gravis:

Zeroes & Ones - 1-800-788-2193 - $138.95
Disk-Count Software - 1-800-448-6658 - $129.00
Mission Control - 1-800-999-7995 - $129.00
Bit Wit Software - 1-800-259-2453 - $126.00
Viking Software - 1-800-852-6187 - $130.00
Chips & Bits - 1-800-753-4263 - $139.00
Computer Express - 1-800-228-7449 - $125.00

All numbers & prices are from the July issue of Computer Gaming World.

- Dan Nicholson


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Date: 03 Jul 93 11:46:04 EDT
From: "Eric Bell, Howling Dog Systems" <71333.2166@CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Please send in your reg. cards
Message-ID: <930703154604_71333.2166_DHQ19-3@CompuServe.COM>

Steph wrote:

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Date: Sat, 03 Jul 93 22:31:00 EDT
From: pccmoddan@aol.com
Subject: stuff
Message-ID: <9307032231.tn09985@aol.com>

Someone was talking about Origin FX for Windows....

Origin FX uses a relatively new development, the AIL drivers for Windows. I
have not got a clue as to whether the GUS will be supported under these
WinAIL drivers, but it shouldn't be too big of a concern, because you have to
be out of your fucking mind to use them in your Windows program, and not too
many companies are *that* stupid. Origin apparently was an exception for this
piece of grub-ware (software designed solely for the purpose of extracting
money from customers). All that's necessary to support sound & music under
Windows is to use the MCI calls built into Windows. OriginFX is way up there
on the "most inanely programmed software" list for all time.

Secondly, *SBOS does NOT work AT ALL under Windows, period.*

- Dan Nicholson

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Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1993 13:14:57 -0400
From: mchen@sol4.cse.psu.edu (Michael Chen)
Subject: Syndicate working fine for me...
Message-ID: <9307031718.AA08947@sol4.cse.psu.edu>

To the unfortunate soul who can't get Syndicate to work properly:

1) Have hope, my copy works just dandy... details in a minute.
2) Someone put a program called GUS_SYND on the archive which is
   supposed to fix the problem.  But I didn't need it...

First, my system configuration.

generic 386/SX-25, 4 MB RAM, plenty o' HD, Trident SVGA, GUS w/256K (sigh)
QEMM 6, Stacker 2 (yes it works... the "drive compression not supported"
bit is B.S.), Super PC-Kwik (this works too, once I managed to get it to
lend out enough EMS memory), and miscellaneous TSRs.

I have my GUS set up for SBOS as IRQ 7 and DMA 1 (always). Base port 0x220.

If you look at the SYND.BAT file, it looks like this:

@main /iirq7 /idma1 /iio$220 /c0

All I had to do was to eliminate the /iio option from the command line, and
SBOS 2.0B8 works for me.  (I stay away from 9 and 10 because they give
random, unrepeatable lockups on my box.)

I also had to get Super PC-Kwik to lend enough EMS memory for Syndicate not
to crash.  It needs at least 2,816K (I'm not sure about the full 3 megs),
by my experience.

Worked fine on my Stacked, cached drive.  I think the compression disclaimer
is just a warning.  After my experience with SuperStor (what do you mean, I
can't restore the drive structure?), I trust Stacker implicitly... never had
any problems.

Great game, IMHO.  I love Bullfrog stuff (this and Populous).

Any other problems?

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Date: Sat, 03 Jul 93 16:30:18 GMT
From: mike@batpad.org (Mike Batchelor)
Subject: Ultrasound Daily Digest V4 #32
Message-ID: <znr741717018k@batpad>

Thought you all might find this interesting:

Quarterdeck is testing a setup that uses a GUS for playing 
music-on-hold direct from disk.  Our telephone system wizard, 
Dave Haber, has got some initial samples recorded for both music 
and voice announcements playing in a cyclic batch-file into the 
music-on-hold system right now.  With a little help from the 
SDK, he's putting together an application which will control the 
timing of each music piece, voice announcements, and so on, 
picking randomly different pieces of either sampled or MIDI 
music to play.  Initial tests show that 11Mhz mono sounds GREAT 
over the phone, better than a plain analog tape recording.  The 
first movement of Eine Kliene Nachtmusik takes a little over 4Mb 
disk space at that sample rate.

I'd appreciate it if I could get some Qool MIDI songs, or 
pointers to the location of same.  Maybe even some MOD files 
would be appropriate.

Isn't there a list for SDK programmers, as well?


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  ////// mike@batpad.org ////////
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Date: 3 Jul 93 12:42 -0700
From: Thomas Wong <twong@civil.ubc.ca>
Subject: Ultrasound Internet Archives - Big Announcement
Message-ID: <3828*twong@civil.ubc.ca>

				 GRAVIS ULTRASOUND INTERNET ARCHIVES NEWS
==========================================================================
Ftp Site: archive.epas.utoronto.ca     Directory: pub/pc/ultrasound
		  wuarchive.wustl.edu                     systems/msdos/ultrasound
		  archive.orst.edu                        pub/packages/gravis

Mailserver for archive access: mail-server@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de
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Here it is... the annoucement a number of you have been waiting for. The
reorganization of the Ultrasound Internet Archives. Sorry for the
delays. There were last minute changes to the documentation and the
features of the mailserver.... yes, I did say mailserver! 8)

Annoucement #1>

First of all, notice that we are no longer the "Ultrasound FTP Sites". We
have now been renamed to the "Gravis Ultrasound Internet Archives". We
have grown beyond the limits of ftp and continue to be on the grow.
Look for more good things to come from the folks who brought you the GUS
archive! 8)

Annoucement #2>

Several days ago, we have already gone ahead with the first phase of our
change over. archive.epas.utoronto.ca is no longer a full archive. It
will no longer hold sound files or the older versions of Gravis released
files (ie. no longer an exact mirror of the Gravis BBS). But
wuarchive.wustl.edu will continue to be a full archive with ALL the
files available.

Annoucement #3>

Have no fear! We all know the problems with accessing wuarchive and
what it would mean for wuarchive to be our only full archive. ....

Announcing Kean, and archive.orst.edu. Let's all give a big welcome to
our newest FULL Ultrasound FTP archive site! 

FTP Site: archive.orst.edu       Directory: pub/packages/gravis

This site will in fact even be a "full"er 8) archive than wuarchive.
Not only does it hold all the files just as wuarchive does, it will also
mirror EPAS' submit directory! A nightly script/program is used to keep
it uptodate daily. Thanks for everything Kean!

Note: Submissions will continue to be accepted in EPAS only. 

Annoucement #4>

Yes, thanks to Zeljko, we now also have a mailserver. And not just a
simple FTP mailserver either. This is a full blown Ultrasound Archive
mirror as well. Yes that's right, the mailserver is actually on another
Ultrasound Archive Site. This makes file retrieval a lot faster (no
ftping to another site needed), less complicated (no ftping to another
site needed) and less chances of error (no ftping to another site
needed).... 8) 

Let's have a big welcome to Zeljko and all he's put in to get this
going. Thanks Zeljko!

My full blown documentation on how to use the mailserver will be posted
as my next message. But here are some sneak previews.... getting files
can be as simple as a one line command, or as complicated as a ftp
session. You don't need to specify the whole path (directory list of
where the file is found). Simply specify the filename and the program
will search out the file for you! Multiple levels of help with
postscript versions of the help file available. There are other archives in
this mailserver as well that you might be interested in. So get the
index and have a look see.... and many more features that's described in
the documentations.

Annoucement #5>

We are still on the grow. Look for more wonderful things to come in the
future. As we were progressing through the current expansion, I was
receiving emails from those who want to join our big family of
Internet services in the future. (We may have to change our name once
again from Ultrasound Internet Archives to ... Internet Services in the
future!) I have received a number of plans and dreams people have and
would like to contribute to our list of services. Of course they are
still in the dream stage so we won't be able to see them for awhile. But
I always welcome new ideas, and especially those who wants to contribute
their dreams or services to our group. Not only do I want the Archive
itself to continue to grow, but I'd also love to see the amount of
services we offer continue to grow.

Final words>

Soon, I hope to see local Ultrasound ftp sites around the world so that
access will not only be a lot more efficient, but also less problematic
since we all know what accessing ftp sites in other continent is like.
(So if you know of a mirror site of our archive, please let me know!)

I'd like to see more services such as gopher for retrieving not only
info, but also Gravis bulletins and so forth. We already have 5? 6?
mailing lists for the Ultrasound. But I'd like to see someone actually
going ahead and completing all the stages needed to officially implement
comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.gus. And since we keep seeing the occassional
fake group being implemented, let's finalize an official group and get
this done and over with.

I'd like to have better direct access to Gravis themselves through
the Internet. This may not be too far off actually since "some" access
to the Gravis BBS via Internet is being planned.... nope, I can't give
out any more info than that. 8)

Let's make the Ultrasound as good and as big as it can be! 8)

Disclaimers>

No warranty is made as to the correctness of the information made
available or the programs being offered.  EPAS Computing, the
University of Toronto and anyone associated with 
Wuarchive/archive.orst.edu/nike.rz.unix-konstanz.de will not be 
held accountable for any damage caused by using either the information 
or programs retrieved from the anonymous ftp server/mail server.

Questions and comments may be directed via email to ...

ftp@epas.utoronto.ca       for the ftp site archive.epas.utoronto.ca  
or twong@civil.ubc.ca 
twong@civil.ubc.ca         for the ftp site wuarchive.wustl.edu
kean@archive.orst.edu      for the ftp site archive.orst.edu
zh@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de for mail-server@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de

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Date: 3 Jul 93 12:42 -0700
From: Thomas Wong <twong@civil.ubc.ca>
Subject: Ultrasound Internet Archives - Mailserver Documentation
Message-ID: <3829*twong@civil.ubc.ca>

			 GRAVIS ULTRASOUND INTERNET ARCHIVE MAIL-SERVER
			 ==============================================
				 <mail-server@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de>
				 =====================================

						 Instructions On Usage
						 ---------------------
							  Version 1.4
							  -----------
					By Thomas Wong - July 02, 1993
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Introduction:
-------------

Thanks to Zeljko, we now have a mailserver service for those who want to
access our Ultrasound Internet Archives but doesn't have ftp access. If
you've never used a mailserver before, the idea is to send a set of 
instructions in an email to the mailserver, and the server will process
and follow the instructions given. In most cases, you would tell it to
send you a file and it would send you that file as an email. Detailed
instructions to follow.

Although this mailserver has the ability to access other sites using
ftp, it is also a full Ultrasound Internet Archive in that it already
has the collection of files in its own harddrives. So you can access the
files directly from this archive which will not only be faster, but will
also minimize the amount of resources used which is important since the
archive recites in Germany. Please don't abuse the service or we will
lose it.


Archive Structure:
------------------

Even though our Ultrasound Internet Archive sites have different 
pathnames for the root directory of our archive, the directory
structures under each root directory is the same. And the same can be
said about this mailserver archive.

The root directory for this Ultrasound archive is simply "gus".
Therefore, the full pathname of a file under this archive is
"gus/<directories>/<filename>". 

For example, to get Gravis' patch file named "gus0007.zip" under the
directory ".../gravis/patch", the full pathname is
"gus/gravis/patch/gus0007.zip". 

Notice that the "..."  stands for the root directory of the archive.

In most cases, you don't need to specify the full pathname. If the
filename is unique, the mailserver has the ability to "search" for
the file automatically so directory information is not needed. But
if there is more than one file with the same name, then you must
specify the full pathname.

Steps In Requesting Files:
--------------------------

It is very simple to request a file from the mailserver. Simply....

- send an email to "mail-server@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de"
- have the word "begin" as the first line of the body of your email
- ask the mailserver to send you a file with the following syntax
  "send <filename>"
  where <filename> is the name of the file you want to get
  (note that if there are more than one file with the same filename,
   then you must specify the whole path as described in the previous
   section)
- repeat above step of you have more files you want it to send
- have the word "end" as the last line of your email


Example #1 >

So for example, the first file everyone should get is the "00Index.ALL"
file which is the complete listing of all the files in our archive.
It recites in the root directory of our archive. So a sample email
to request this file would be as follows....

To: mail-server@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de
Subject: doesn't matter

begin
send 00Index.ALL
end


Example #2 >

As a second example, to get Gravis' patch file named "gus0007.zip" under
the directory ".../gravis/patch", the request email may look like....
(note: path not needed)

To: mail-server@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de
Subject: doesn't matter

begin
send gus0007.zip
end


What To Do With File In Email:
 -----------------------------

Once the file you requested arrives in your mailbox, you will have to
convert it back into it's original state. For those who've used email
to get files before, skip to the next step.

The file will arrive as an UUENCODED file. Email can only transport
text files. Therefore, binary files are converted into an encoded text
file format called UUENCODE before it can be tranposted as an email.
Once you get the file, you must convert it back to its original binary
file format with UUDECODE as laid out below...

- save the email as a file and remember the name
- if you are using a UNIX machine for your email messaging, you can either
  decode the file on the UNIX box, and then transfer it to the PC already
  in its binary format. Or you can transfer it to the PC as an encoded
  file, then convert it on the PC. Since most UNIX comes with UUENCODE and
  UUDECODE built-in, I'd recommend doing the decoding on the UNIX machine
  first, then transfer it over to the PC in binary mode.
- to decode the file in UNIX, type "uudecode <filename>"
  where <filename> is the name you used when you saved the email to file
- to decode the file on a PC, it depends on what uudecode software you're
  using so read the documentation that came with the software
- transfer the file to your PC and there you have it, the file you want
- remember to transfer in BINARY mode if you've already UUDECODED the
  file back to its binary format in UNIX!


What Files Should You Get:
--------------------------

Here is a list of files that you might want to get the first time you
used the mailserver....

help             - the help file with full list of commands
(or mservusr.ps) - the help file in postscript format
INDEX            - index of all archives this mailserver holds
unpack.pl        - a perl tool for unpacking the encoded file
00Index.ALL      - the full index for the GUS archive
(or "index gus") - instead of "send", the "index" commands also gives
				   you the index of the GUS archive


Example >

Here is a sample email for getting all the files above....

To: mail-server@nike.rz.uni-konstanz.de
Subject: doesn't matter

begin
send help
send mservusr.ps
send INDEX
send unpack.pl
send 00Index.ALL
index gus
end


Multiple Help Facilities:
-------------------------

The following commands can be used to getting multiple levels of
help...

help             - brief help information (the built in help text)
send help        - verbose help (a full text file)
send mservusr.ps - postscript version of full help file with formatting

If you have more questions, send me an email and I'll see if I can
help.

Happy GUSing!


Thomas Wong <twong@civil.ubc.ca>

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Date: Sat, 3 Jul 93 16:41:31 EDT
From: jagati1@SERVER.uwindsor.ca (Jason Jagatic)
Subject: WCII SBOS SETTINGS!!!
Message-ID: <9307032041.AA29315@SERVER.uwindsor.ca>

Can someone please tell me what SBOS settings to use with Wing Commander II and the Speech Pack?  It would be greatly appreciated!

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Date: Sat, 3 Jul 1993 16:10:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: Yoo-Shin LEE <spader@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca>
Subject: Re: What's happened to epas?/Alternatives to epas & dune2
Message-ID: <9307032010.AA04657@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca>

1) For gus stuff try ftping to the site:
archive.epas.utoronto.ca
or
klingon.epas.utoronto.ca

not "edu"

2) David Mitchell, please state exactly what is wrong with your
ftps.  Are you making sure to ftp in "binary" mode and after
you download, the files to your home, are you using 
pkunzip 2.04g ?

3) I still have not gotten dune2 to work with the ail drivers. sigh.

4) finally: I guess montreal's postal system sucks, I still haven't got
the disks.

Well, later, games are better with gus.

spader@cs.mcgill.ca

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Date: (null)
From: (null)

> either) : why not start an email server, somewhere, for the damn disks?
> The way I see it, people don't care for the _disks_, they want the
> _software_ on it.  If it's GUS-related, only GUS-users have any use for
> it.  So what if people copy it?  It'll only be used by GUS users, no?
> Unless of course powerchord and all support other cards.

We're the makers of Power Chords. It would be disastrous for us if GUS owners circumvent the distribution of disks through Advan
ced Gravis for a number of reasons.

1) We get paid a royalty for each copy of Power Chords for UltraSound that
Gravis ships. If you don't send in your registration card and get the software
from a friend or FTP site, we don't get paid.

2) If you don't send in your reg. card, you don't get the upgrade flyer that
is included with the disks. This is a lot of revenue for us. But you might not
upgrade or buy other products if you don't know they are available.

3) If you don't send in your reg. card, we have no record of you. The list of
GUS customers is part of our deal with Gravis. If you're not on it, we cant
market upgrades, other products of interest etc. to you.

4) It's illegal to copy Power Chords and distribute it. 

Please do us a favor and make Gravis fulfil their commitment to their
customers. I am very upset with the way this has been handled, and all the
delays, gaffes (mismatched icons, misspelling our product name in their
adversising) etc. 

For what it's worth, I have not yet to received my GUS disks either. I live
outside Ottawa, Canada.

Eric Bell, Howling Dog Systems

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