Subj : Frontdoor holiness
To   : Björn Felten
From : Tommi Koivula
Date : Tue Jul 03 2018 11:59 am

* Originally in FIDONEWS
* Crossposted in FDECHO

Monday July 02 2018 21:35, Björn Felten wrote to Björn Felten:

 BF>
 BF>>     In comes this 17yo Swedish kid with a Turbo Pascal program that
 BF>> could distinguish between mailer calls and BBS-callers (<press Esc
 Twice>>> ). He called it Frontdoor.
 BF>
 BF>    In case someone should be interested, here's the very first version of
 BF> FrontDoor from 1986-10-12. It has quite some historical value IMHO.
 BF>
 BF> http://eljaco.se/FILES/BBS/FD100.ZIP

Hmm...

=== Begin OS/2 Clipboard ===

p:\fd100>fd /?

+ FrontDoor v1.0 - October 12th, 1986
From Future Hacker Central FIDO 501/4609, Sweden
Copyright (c) 1986 by Joaquim Homrighausen & Peter Stewart, all rights reserved

Usage:         FD/<port_number>
               FD/1 or FD/2

Switches:      /I                - install defaults (use as only parameter)
               /?                - display this text
               /N                - don't initialize modem
               /K                - use constant speed against modem
               /L                - log transactions in file FD.LOG
               /Q                - quiet, don't beep at connect
               /B<n>             - initialize the COM port to this baudrate
               /B3 /B1 /B2         (300,1200,2400)
               /X<n>             - exclude support of this baudrate
               /X3 /X1 /X2 /X7     (300,1200,2400,splitspeed)
               /S<nn>            - connect code for splitspeed (CCITT V.23)
               /S11 /S7            (8 = default)

=== End OS/2 Clipboard ===

=== Begin OS/2 Clipboard ===
  12:00:41 | FrontDoor v1.0 by Joaquim Homrighausen & Peter Stewart |
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|==========================================================Á        |
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|  - Disk read error. PC=636A                              |        |
|  - Internal error, exiting...                            |        |
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+==========================================================¤========+
=== End OS/2 Clipboard ===

Bummer!

'Tommi

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