Subj : LSPPPDlr 2003 To : MARK LEWIS From : MICHEL SAMSON Date : Sun Dec 12 2004 02:10 pm Hi Mark, About "LSPPPDlr 2003" of December 11: MS> ...`{Commo} v7.7' and `Telix v3.51' do support ~INT-14~/~FOSSIL~... ML> Interesting... Very interesting... `{Commo}' is handy for sure. Its full range of interfaces tells us how much quality was put in it, i couldn't think of anything else for my external ~PPP~ dialer once i discovered it and the fact that it works as the ~TelNet~ client too (instead of having to use two separate pieces of SoftWare) only confirms that it wasn't counter-productive to investigate a while before i became more involved with external dialers, eventually. 8^) MS> ...an image is worth a thousand words... ...command-line samples: MS> RLFossil.EXE 2 1 "Commo.EXE /:INT-14 /{*1,,3,V,}" ML> What versions of {COMMO}, Telix and RLFossil are those, please? As i mentioned above, `{Commo}' is version v7.7 (the last one there was before its source-code and author both disapeared). As for `Telix', i'm refering to version 3.51 but you tell me if it's the last release... ;^) MS> I must confess that the matter of local connection speed (~DTE~, MS> isn't it?) sure sounds somewhat "elusive" since i get rate peaks MS> around 4K cps (both on `{Commo}' and `Telix') but there's no MS> significant drop when i set `Telix' for a 9K6 bps connection... if MS> i use `MS-kermit' with `RLFossil' instead then my connect speed MS> shows as "unknown"... In any case, the Serial-Port `{Commo}' or MS> `Telix' would use is defined right on `RLFossil's Command-Line!... ML> ...the equipment is not hampered by hardware (aka uart) speed... ML> ...ms-kermit either doesn't have a matching connect speed or doesn't ML> recognise what it may be being told is the connection speed... I have found that the behavior of ~BIOS INT-14~/~FOSSIL~ compatible terminal emulators varied significantly when i investigated them but the "unknown" result returned by `MS-Kermit' was said to make perfect sense, according to its maintainers at the Columbia university. From memory, i believe their reasoning was it's the ~FOSSIL~ driver's responsability to manage it, usually (it sounds about true of `X00', `ADF' and the suite). ML> My bbs does that with telix all the time... When a user logs off, ML> my system fires up telix... ...and runs a script to fetch the ML> session's stats from the modem... BBSes depend on a fully compliant level 5 ~FOSSIL~ driver which can support application swapping even when the Serial-Ports are still "Hot", i wish `RLFossil' were compliant enough to support the use of a `ZMoDem' protocol driver run from `MS-Kermit's terminal interface, or vice-versa! 8,-( Right now, i can "share" connections (alternately) using `LSPPPDlr' with `MS-Kermit' run as a protocol-driver - when used via `COM/IP' - but not with `RLFossil' (the later reboots my PC instead)!... I wonder what feedback i'd get from a person like Sylvain Lauzon (he was knowledgeable enough about `RLFossil' to get me a 8088 built which didn't exist on the Net), euh... i have to wonder if he wouldn't happen to know where to go for the source-code or, maybe, even a quick fix. `TelNet Port' suffered from the same problem when i checked, i may be stuck with this for ever! %-o ML> ...if one is handy with debug or other capable software, one can ML> redefine the BIOS table of serial and parallel port addresses... Back in days when i played with `Z-80' code, a concept like double- Byte numbers with their most significant Byte last made sense but that's all history now, i depend on the talent of others for my modest hobby... ;-) MS> ...drop me a note when you're ready to try `MS-Kermit' as an `OS/2' MS> external file-transfer protocol-driver on a `Maximus' BBS! ML> ...on a RemoteAccess BBS since i don't run Maximus "out front"... Good! 8-) Anyway, i must meditate on the meaning of the riddle... Salutations, ;-) Michel Samson a/s Bicephale http://public.sogetel.net/bicephale/ .... Windows made your old AT look better, now it's the other way around! --- MultiMail/MS-DOS v0.45 - Help TelNet OLMR BBSing to become UNIVERSAL * Origin: BBS Networks @ www.bbsnets.com 808-839-6036 (1:10/345) .