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TapcisForum May 24th, 2005 01:30 PM

Ask your Tapcis questions here!
 
Tapcis is still a very useful program, for classic email and for access to the remaining (mostly adult) HMI forums.

Need help with Tapcis and how it works? Ask here!

ndebord June 4th, 2005 03:12 PM

Judy,

Just as an aside, do you think there would be any interest in adding in a Virtual Access section to the Tapcis board? I ask because I always thought of it as part of the big 3: Tapcis, OzWin and VA.

Judy G. Russell June 4th, 2005 03:15 PM

We'll be happy to consider it if the demand is there. But I understood VA was being supported by its own website, no?

ndebord June 5th, 2005 11:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Judy G. Russell
We'll be happy to consider it if the demand is there. But I understood VA was being supported by its own website, no?

VA may well have its own website. If they do, however, I don't know where it is!



<sigh>

woodswell June 5th, 2005 12:09 PM

Virtual Access is now Open Source with a support board at Source Forge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtual-access/
There is also the Virtual Access Foundation site: http://www.virtual-access.org/

But not much seems to have happened in either place for quite a while. And there does not seem to be any sort of community forum, so maybe it would be nice to add a section here for VA users in hopes that their conversations would help spur further development.
Anne

Judy G. Russell June 5th, 2005 12:57 PM

My concern about having a section for VA users is that the only distinctions we have now are public vs. private and one section for Tapcis support and one section for OzWin support. I wouldn't want a VA support section without having someone from VA to answer any questions, and I wouldn't want a section other than a support section that suggests any division among forum members.

bob(mc) September 25th, 2005 10:49 AM

It's a LONG time since I last accessed Tapcis and my PC is failing to make contact since a recent major disk crash. How do I go about unsubscribing from it.

bob(mc) - Septuagenarian

bob(mc) September 25th, 2005 10:54 AM

Unsubscribing Tapcis
 
It's a LONG time since I last accessed Tapcis and my PC is failing to make contact since a recent major disk crash. How do I go about unsubscribing from it.

bob(mc) - Septuagenarian

Jeff September 25th, 2005 12:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bob(mc)
It's a LONG time since I last accessed Tapcis and my PC is failing to make contact since a recent major disk crash. How do I go about unsubscribing from it.

bob(mc) - Septuagenarian

Unsubscribing from what, Bob? The TAPCIS forum on CIS is no more. It's not there. It's gone. AOL murdered it. To unsubscribe from CIS apply here; you will be connected to India, which is what AOL thinks of CIS.

Customer Service Freephone: 1-800-848-8990
Customer Service Direct: 1-614-457-8600

- Jeff

bob(mc) September 25th, 2005 04:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jeff
Unsubscribing from what, Bob?
- Jeff

I was able to download mail from Tapcis last time I tried Jeff :mad: They're still deducting a few dollars (read £'s) from my account, so I thought to save that. I would like to have collected the last of my mail first of course :(

Dick K September 25th, 2005 05:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bob(mc)
I was able to download mail from Tapcis last time I tried Jeff :mad: They're still deducting a few dollars (read £'s) from my account, so I thought to save that. I would like to have collected the last of my mail first of course :(

As Jeff noted, you want to unsubscribe from CompuServe, not from TAPCIS (which is simply a program and which does not charge you anything).

Judy G. Russell September 25th, 2005 09:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bob(mc)
I would like to have collected the last of my mail first of course :(

If you've ever set up your Tapcis mail for POP3 access, you can still get it at mail2web or, in any event, with any CServe software you may still have around. Otherwise, we'll need more info: what OS, what error message, etc., to try to help you get that one last download before you cancel your Compuserve membership.

BrucePatterson September 30th, 2005 10:07 PM

How do I set up Tapcis to access this forum?

Bruce

Dan in Saint Louis October 1st, 2005 09:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BrucePatterson
How do I set up Tapcis to access this forum?

Teach it to be a Web browser.

Lindsey October 2nd, 2005 10:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BrucePatterson
How do I set up Tapcis to access this forum?

You can't.

--Lindsey

bob(mc) November 3rd, 2005 05:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Judy G. Russell
If you've ever set up your Tapcis mail for POP3 access, you can still get it at mail2web or, in any event, with any CServe software you may still have around. Otherwise, we'll need more info: what OS, what error message, etc., to try to help you get that one last download before you cancel your Compuserve membership.

Judy,

Many moons later.

Entering my details into www.mail2web.com produces the error msg:
Login Failure. Please check your email address and re-enter your password

I have double-checked the details and tried them in upper and lower case.

As you may remember, I'm THE computer idiot extraordinaire at times

bob(mc) November 3rd, 2005 05:05 PM

Oops! I used win98 SE before and now use XP Pro 2. I'm unsure about setting up a web address at any point.

Lindsey November 3rd, 2005 06:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bob(mc)
Entering my details into www.mail2web.com produces the error msg:
Login Failure. Please check your email address and re-enter your password

You don't say what details you entered.

The e-mail address has to be your full address: myemailaddress@compuserve.com

The password has to be the mail-only password that you set up for POP3 mail. This is not the same thing (or should not be the same thing) as your dial-up logon password.

Do you know whether or not you ever set up a mail-only password? If not, do you have any CompuServe-supplied software (CS 3 or 4, for example)? Or do you have Virtual Key installed for your browser?

--Lindsey

bob(mc) November 8th, 2005 06:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lindsey
You don't say what details you entered.

The e-mail address has to be your full address: myemailaddress@compuserve.com

The password has to be the mail-only password that you set up for POP3 mail. This is not the same thing (or should not be the same thing) as your dial-up logon password.

Do you know whether or not you ever set up a mail-only password? If not, do you have any CompuServe-supplied software (CS 3 or 4, for example)? Or do you have Virtual Key installed for your browser?

--Lindsey

Lindsay,

I can access Tapcis.
It screams for about 28 secs (did this before and someone told me how to stop it) and I can get as far as 'scanning waiting messages'.

Bottom line is:
com1:115200 CPS total 300 say CPS current 400 say * DTR CD RTS CTS 0

It then gives a 'requesting topic change' (or words to that effect) and log off.

This is via a 56K modem, albeit I use broadbad for everything else.

Is that of any help?

I 'think' it's CS3. Any way I can check? Don't know about Virtual Key.

I jpoined Tapcis about 1988 and have long since forgotten how to drive it as I had it set up to do so automagically. Obviously the major disk crash and change to XP Pro SP2 finished me off. I can give you a list of the files I have if that' of any use.

Lindsey November 9th, 2005 12:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bob(mc)
Is that of any help?

Umm--no. Sorry. Your question was about mail2web, which is another thing entirely from TAPCIS.

I'm a little short of online time at the moment, but if you're willing to be patient, I could possibly help you with TAPCIS if you'd post exactly (that is, via copy and paste) what shows up in your ONLINE.LOG (or on your screen) when you try to collect your mail. I have never seen or heard of any message that said "Requesting topic change," so I think you must have misremembered what you saw.

If you want help getting Mail2Web set up, post a message in the Classic CompuServe Support forum. That forum can also help you get CS3 (or, more likely, CS4) running on your PC. Windows XP requires a different version of the CompuServe software than Windows 9x; they can tell you in that forum where to go to download it.

--Lindsey

bob(mc) November 9th, 2005 05:45 PM

Lindsey said:
> I'm a little short of online time at the moment

And I'm off to Scotland until Nov.19th <g> I'll see if I can capture the screen. Do you want it posted here in due course if I can?

I'll have a look at the the Classic CompuServe Support forum when I get a chance.

Many thanks for your efforts.

Lindsey November 9th, 2005 10:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bob(mc)
I'll see if I can capture the screen. Do you want it posted here in due course if I can?

Sure! And I or someone will try to figure out what is going on.

Have a good trip to Scotland! I've been reading quite a lot about ancient Scotland, lately--a book tracing the "real history" of King Arthur, who, according to the author, was based largely in the area between the two Roman walls, with his primary seat at Carlisle. Lancelot, according to this book, was in reality a King Anguselus (whose name translated to Old French as L'Anselot) whose kingdom was in the vicinity of Edinburgh and Stirling.

--Lindsey

bob(mc) April 25th, 2006 06:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bob(mc)
Lindsey said:
> I'm a little short of online time at the moment

And I'm off to Scotland until Nov.19th <g> I'll see if I can capture the screen. Do you want it posted here in due course if I can?

I'll have a look at the the Classic CompuServe Support forum when I get a chance.

Many thanks for your efforts.

I gave up in the end and cancelled my (unused) subscription in the end :o

Judy G. Russell April 25th, 2006 10:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bob(mc)
I gave up in the end and cancelled my (unused) subscription in the end :o

I think most of us ended up doing the same...

Lindsey April 25th, 2006 10:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bob(mc)
I gave up in the end and cancelled my (unused) subscription in the end :o

Just to clarify: You were the one who was off to Scotland, was going to capture the error messages on the screen and check the Classic Support Forum.

Frankly, though, if you have another e-mail account you can use, I think you're much better off at this point using that rather than CompuServe. Without a good spam filtering system, CompuServe mail has become all but unusable.

--Lindsey

bob(mc) May 8th, 2006 02:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Judy G. Russell
I think most of us ended up doing the same...

You've made me feel better already Judy :)

bob(mc) May 8th, 2006 02:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lindsey
Just to clarify: You were the one who was off to Scotland, was going to capture the error messages on the screen and check the Classic Support Forum.

Frankly, though, if you have another e-mail account you can use, I think you're much better off at this point using that rather than CompuServe. Without a good spam filtering system, CompuServe mail has become all but unusable.

--Lindsey

You have it in one Lindsay. The on;y reason I was 'holding on' was to catch up on my mail. Unfortunately I can't remember who had my CompuServe address, but a relative told me (by snail mail) that an e-mail had bounced so I was able to catch that one.

Judy G. Russell May 8th, 2006 04:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bob(mc)
You've made me feel better already Judy :)

Good. No reason to feel guilty about that decision!

Lindsey May 8th, 2006 09:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bob(mc)
Unfortunately I can't remember who had my CompuServe address

You can still use TAPCIS to read your saved MAIL.MSG file offline. You could go through it and be sure that all of the people in it that you wanted to correspond with had your new e-mail address.

--Lindsey

bob(mc) May 11th, 2006 02:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lindsey
You can still use TAPCIS to read your saved MAIL.MSG file offline. You could go through it and be sure that all of the people in it that you wanted to correspond with had your new e-mail address.

--Lindsey

Care to expand on how Lindsay?

davidh May 11th, 2006 03:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bob(mc)
Care to expand on how Lindsay?

I think the assumption might be that you have had TAPCIS installed on a PC for some more or less lengthy period of time and that incoming messages to your Classic Compuserve email address have been accumulating in the INBOX of TAPCIS on your PC during such a period.

If that is not the case then there might be few or no messages in your TAPCIS installation to scan for the names and email addresses of your correspondents to notify them of your new address, etc.

Of course, if you actually have to re-install TAPCIS even to have any TAPCIS software to run on your computer, then the INBOX in TAPCIS would initially be EMPTY and the ONLY messages you might be able to access would be those still remaining to be downloaded from your Classic Compuserve account.

However, if you DO have some TAPCIS message files stored on some disks (e.g. floppies, CD's, etc.) then it would be possible to read those message files on a different installation of TAPCIS from that installation on which the messages were originally received from Compuserve. If this is the situation that you are in, it is highly likely that Lindsey or somebody else in this forum would be able to help you further.

I don't have TAPCIS installed on my computer any more. I don't subscribe to Compuserve any more. But I sure did like the TAPCIS program when I was a Compuserve Classic user.

Hope that helps.

David H.

not a sysop ;)

Lindsey May 11th, 2006 11:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bob(mc)
Care to expand on how Lindsay?

Well, there are a number of ways to do that, depending on just how you have TAPCIS set up, and what the current status of your MAIL.MSG file is, but one way should always work is to start TAPCIS, press <R> to <R>ead files, and then choose MAIL.MSG from the pick list that pops up.

--Lindsey

Judy G. Russell May 12th, 2006 10:04 AM

What I did when I was ready to close my CServe account completely was open MAIL.MSG in Tapcis and then isolate the last 120 days worth of mail (use the View function to set the dates). Then I simply did a copy-and-paste of any relevant email addresses and sent a single email to everyone on that list advising them of the change of address.

Jeff May 12th, 2006 01:12 PM

Old, old, real old, school here; still @compuserve.com

- Jeff

Lindsey May 12th, 2006 08:33 PM

Oh! Of course; I misunderstood his question. For some reason, I thought he was asking how to open the file.

--Lindsey

Judy G. Russell May 12th, 2006 09:44 PM

Once I developed my own website, there just wasn't any reason to keep the compuserve email address, Jeff, especially since all I ever got at that address was spam.

heinz57g May 14th, 2006 02:28 PM

hey, above brought up an interesting question: how many of us still use TAPCIS for mail actually? how many on a daily basis, how many mails/day, how many just occasionally?

wondering if this question will be read here, or if it should be moved to another section to get solid answers.

are there any estimates, or educated guesses, how many people still use TAPCIS out there that might NOT be members here?

greetings - heinz -

Judy G. Russell May 14th, 2006 07:14 PM

We don't have any way of knowing, Heinz. We certainly tried to reach everyone we knew of who had any connection with Tapcis in the weeks before this forum opened, to replace the one CServe closed. But since there are no cookies left and no continuing registration fees, it's anybody's guess.

heinz57g May 15th, 2006 05:43 AM

well, any chance of finding out by putting this question up front where everybody would read it? your move.

or ''any educated guesses''? from you, lindsey, jeff , and the many others in the know?

is there any listing or voting feature on the forum for things like this?

in find it intriguing ... and most interesting. you dont?

greetings - heinz -

davidh May 15th, 2006 06:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by heinz57g
well, any chance of finding out by putting this question up front where everybody would read it? your move.

or ''any educated guesses''? from you, lindsey, jeff , and the many others in the know?

is there any listing or voting feature on the forum for things like this?

in find it intriguing ... and most interesting. you dont?

greetings - heinz -

If the Compuserve Classic private forums (including the adult rated forums) are still using the CIS HMI protocol then there may still be some sysops using TAPCIS to manage forums ?

If you still have an account, you might post such a question in a forum such as the adult intimate chat forum (maybe that was not the actual name).

Perhaps someone in the Classic support forum or perhaps Matt (sysop in practice forum) would know answer to such questions? (web view forums)

David H.


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