From: vporguen@unlinfo.unl.edu (victor porguen)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
Subject: Decrippling Telix v3.20 Script-Learning
Date: 29 Dec 1992 05:11:05 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln	
Distribution: world
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Keywords: Telix Shareware Crippling Script Telecommunications

In a previous posting, I complained about the crippling of  
Script-Learning in Telix v3.20.  I've since discovered the SLEARN 
v2.0 utility by Paul Roub, which offers the missing function. 
It can be integrated within Telix perfectly.

Slearn is available on the Telix BBS itself for public download.  
This means we can bypass the crippling in Telix through the use 
of Slearn.  Legally and ethically correct, since they are 
distributing it themselves.

Slearn will not only "learn" and create simple scripts (which Telix
3.2 is supposed to do but doesn't, because it's crippled), but will 
even offer to compile them for you. That's what I call good service.

Unfortunately, Slearn itself is crippled!  There is a function 
(Files Downloading) which is turned off in the "shareware version", 
as the author calls it. 

  (I wondered how they disabled that.  I found that Slearn.exe 
  always turns off the Zmodem autodownload feature IN TELIX by 
  setting the Telix  _zmod_auto_  function to 0 and substituting 
  it for DSZ, but the DSZ call is in turn not enabled.  Strange, 
  isn't it?  I didn't like that.  Since  _zmod_auto_  is a user-
  toggled function, I don't think Paul Roub has any business 
  turning it OFF and leaving it off in my copy of Telix for the 
  sole purpose of enticing me to buy his program...  But that's 
  another problem. Another crippling problem! Crippling stinks)

With Slearn, Telix behaves, I imagine, more or less as it would have 
behaved if its script-learning feature hadn't been crippled, and 
comes closer to its competitor's (Qmodem) abilities.  Of course, we 
can't really make the comparison, because we don't really know 
whether the built-in (but crippled) Telix feature works or not.

The Telix keypress that should activate Script Learning (if it
hadn't been crippled), is Alt-9.  So we have to tie SLEARN to the 
Telix Alt-9 keypress.  That's easy; the Telix Manual says that 
Function Keys may be redefined to activate named scripts, by 
starting the definition with the "@" character.  Well, not only 
Function keys but other keys, including the Alt-9 combination, can 
be redefined in this way, it turns out. 

So simply redefine Alt-9 to be "@SLEARN" and... voila! Legally and 
ethically de-crippled Telix v3.2, capable of script-learning. 
Works, too.  Even compiles scripts.  Unfortunately, this decrippling
is itself crippled, so...  oh gosh, I give up.

P.S. You should register the whole thing, i.e., Telix+Slearn 
     IF YOU USE THEM but, in the meantime, at least you can test 
     them and see if you like what they do!  After all, that's
     what shareware is all about.

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     This is a shareware message.  To register, send me $5.

   I had to cripple this message to encourage registrations.
     But if you register, you will receive a more complete 
       message, explaining how to decripple Slearn also.

    The Trial period is 1 day.  After that, you must either
      register or erase this message from your disk.   But
     please give copies to some friends before you erase it.
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(just kidding)

You didn't like the above, did you?  Precisely.  That's how one
feels when running across the Telix/Slearn/etc. cripplings.