Date   : Sun, 01 JUN 1989 22:08:00-
From   : RALPH%UHHEPG.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Subject: FLAME: Patch-instructions for MEX,MDM7,IMP versus QTERM

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