*------------------------------------* * CITANEWS * * A national newsletter of room-based* * systems. * *------------------------------------* * Editor: David A.P. Quick, Jr. * *------------------------------------* * May 1988 Issue * *------------------------------------* A NEW EDITOR COMES TO CITANEWS Well, here it is: David A. Quick, Jr. (The Badger) is relieving Steve as CitaNews editor. Steve, now an expert at the process (), has expressed a wish to be 'set free' from his position. So, now that things are changing hands, format, unfortunately, is changing also. Dave happens to be running a CP/M Kaypro and WordStar. BUT, Dave will reformat anything you send. So, in any format you'd like, send him your new news at: The Badger@Pell Test System KAOS (NY) Aardvark ! SuperComp II Images Illusions ------------------------- David Quick@Utica College ------------------------- David A.P. Quick Jr@USA We hope to make this transition an easy one for all concerned. Until later.... -------------------------------------- ANOTHER UNIX CITADEL!?!?!? Could be.......maybe.....ahem. -------------------------------------- Lately, the Citadel trend has begun to infect the "big boys'" computers - we can net with UUCP through STadel, there's a VAX/VMS Citadel around here somewhere, and now Unix itself is being hit upon as the OS of Citadel. Peter Clark, a user of the C-86 Test System, has ported C-86 into Xenix and Unix System V via XUnixadel (??)....in a mere six days (so states Mr. Clark). The system has not been seen running by yours truly, so I really have no comment on style, etc. yet. But, when it is brought to my attention in an accessable format (North America), CitaNews will be there, on the cutting edge of telecommunications with style....Citadel. -------------------------------------- CITADEL MODIFICATIONS Cheers and Jeers for Ideas -------------------------------------- Citadel is a kludge system of code put together by many programmers in many forms over many years. And it continues to change. Hue, Jr., writer of the adaptation C-86, now considered pretty much standard Citadel, is constantly modifying his code. And yet, the ideas keep coming. The idea of giving the average user the ability to delete his own messages has recently been discussed. This would allow stupid mistakes to be avoided, even after being saved. sir Ector, on the Test System, suggested also that you must delete the message during that login session. R.R. feels that this leads to lazy writers, but, in the end, it's all up to Hue, Jr. anyway.... As for captain's log, well..... -------------------------------------- OPINIONS An Editorial By....The Editor -------------------------------------- Well, here's my little bit 'o' gossip for the month. Anything printed here is the opinion of me alone, and any quotes will be direct and unabridged. It seems that our beloved Hue, Jr. feels that user Pat Fish of Utica College is "a loon again" in the field of programming. You Minnasoteans are just catching on....we've felt that way 'bout Pat for YEARS.....:) KAOS (Utica, NY) has just made entry into the net, with the addition of a 30 Mb hard drive. Sysop Gary Green still strives for signs of excellence....a higher AML and better textfiles......:) There's been a rumor going around that Cynbe ru Taren is lurking in the shadows of the net somewhere....if he catches this, we here at the CitaNews editing desk would like him to know he's always got a home in our hearts and minds.....:) Well, that's all the gossip for this month. Have a little tidbit that would make us laugh, or give us even the SLIGHTEST shred of information?? Submit an article or message to CitaNews Control. We'll DEFINITELY print it!! -------------------------------------- !! CONTEST ALERT !! CitaNews' First Contest -------------------------------------- Well, with a new editor comes new features. And, one of them is a contest section. Each month, I'll be holding a contest of different sorts, and the winner will win some paltry prize of some sort or another. So, contest #1 begins. The form is that of a math problem. And the question is.... If you take the number of CHARACTERS in the name of the alias of the original author of Citadel and multiply it by the number of LETTERS in the name of the Citadel written in Turbo Pascal by Hue, Sr., what is the answer, in HEX?? Send your answers to me, at any of the addresses at the beginning of the letter, or send them via U.S. Mail to: David A. Quick, Jr. Box 191-C Stittville, NY 13469-0191 I'll be sure to write back, and multiple correct answers will be decided by a random drawing. The prize of the month is 10 blank DS/DD 5.25" floppies, so enter soon!! -------------------------------------- COMMENTS?? Let me know!! -------------------------------------- Would you like to see something specific in CitaNews?? Would you like something taken out?? Would you like to HELP?!?!?!?!?!?? (Foriegn correspondents are SO hard to find these days....heh) Just drop me a line. Buffers, notes, articles, messages, anything that you thing is pretty cool, give it to me. I'll sort out anything I can use. BUT, I can't sort if you don't send. So please, help a 16-year-old with graying hair.... -------------------------------------- *------------------------------------* * CITANEWS (c) 1988 by Steve "George * * Jetson" Yelvington of Minnesota. * *------------------------------------* -------------------------------------- End of transmission...................