Subj : Re: Interfacing FD with
To   : Ib Joe
From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Tue Sep 26 2017 08:42 pm

-=> IB JOE wrote to Robert Wolfe <=-

 IJ> I am not sure what JoHo has in his plans for FD.  I like FD abd run it
 IJ> on one of my addresses.  There are some limitatiions to all this
 IJ> though.  FD only comes in DOS or OS2.  If Sexpots came in an OS2 flovor
 IJ> I'd have people call the mailer and transfer out to the BBS... As it
 IJ> stands now it doesn't do that.

I don't think sexpots would work anyway, since FD still needs to be 
listening on a com port -- virtual or otherwise.  

 IJ> I'm not a programmer, or do I play one on TV, but the solutions seems
 IJ> simple enough.  FD needs to come in other flavors, windows or linux,
 IJ> and all it needs to do is handle fileboxes for some of it's outgoing
 IJ> mail.  If it's a modem, or vmodem, call it makes it.  If its a binkp
 IJ> call then binkd makes it.

I don't see why it would need to come in a Linux "flavor" since most 
Linux based boards these days seem to not have dialup.

 IJ> fmail can toss mail real nice as file attach or filesboxes.  It
 IJ> wouldn't take much effort to make things work, on the mail side anyway.

Yeah, I prefer FastEcho myself since the fmail author seems to have no 
desire to port it over to OS/2.  What language it is written in anyway?

 IJ> If what I read is correct.... the challange is to get the vmodem side
 IJ> to work...  not sure where I read that.

I can run SEXPOTS on a Windows box all day long and have it telnet to 
FD/2 running on my ArcaOS 5.0.1 Professional VM, but it has to be 
sitting behind a running VMODEM.EXE (in my case, which is part of Ray 
Gwinn's SIO2k).

 IJ> Fingers crossed... excied to see what comes of it.

I am just happy JoHo is back on the scene again :)

 IJ> IB JOE
 IJ> AKA Joe Schweier
 IJ> SysOp of Joe's Computer & BBS
 IJ> Telnet: joesbbs.com

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 IJ>  * Origin: Joe's Computer & BBS -=joesbbs.com=- (1:342/200)

.... Disk Failure: (W)arm Boot, (C)old Boot, (S)teel Toe Boot?
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