Subj : Who is running FD as Telnet Mailer?
To   : mark lewis
From : Dran Draggore
Date : Sat Apr 02 2016 07:52 pm

  Re: Who is running FD as Telnet Mailer?
  By: mark lewis to Dran Draggore on Sat Apr 02 2016 09:24 am

 >  DD> The reason why NetFoss will not work is because it is a FOSSIL for
 >  DD> telnet connections. FrontDoor is expecting a FOSSIL for serial ports.
 >
 > actually, frontdoor is expecting a FOSSIL, period... what is on the other
 > side  of that FOSSIL frontdoor doesn't care about... frontdoor does send the
 > standard
 > analogue modem AT commands, though, so the FOSSIL should either eat them or
 > convert them to whatever the other side needs... in the same manner that the
 > FOSSIL will send a "RING" to frontdoor so that it knows there is an incoming
 > connection...

I guess in that case, the problem with NetFoss might be that it is not a TSR.

I suppose the problem Elmo's having might be mailer compatibility. He did not
specify whether he was connecting between two FrontDoor mailers. In any case, I
have my doubts about connecting any oldschool mailer to a post-BBS era mailer
(eg. safely assume anything created after 2000).

 > i think the biggest thing is to have either an all in one FOSSIL/telnet shim
 > or
 > at least a working FOSSIL that can talk to a telnet shim... i'm saying
 > telnet  shim but it could be any shim... these same type things were used
 > back in the  day when ISDN first came around so that frontdoor could talk to
 > the ISDN device

I think using a virtual modem is the safest approach. Let the virtual modem and
FOSSIL do their separate jobs as originally intended by the software.

 > BTW: what's your real name? this is a fidonet echo... you should use your
 > real  name in the header or at least sign your messages with your real
 > name... eye of
 > the beholder 2 is over there on the other side of the park ;)

My name being used in an old computer game is purely coincidental. I should
sue, but the developers already took care of that in their ending credits legal
notice - "Any characters in this game who bear resemblance to persons living or
dead are purely coincidental".

"Elmo Jensen" - now that sounds like a suspicious name to me.

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