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|    mark lewis to Don Lowery    |
|    Re: AmiExpress    |
|    27 Mar 20 07:56:14    |
      TZUTC: -0400       MSGID: 237.fido-amiga@1:3634/12 22e320cb       REPLY: 1:340/1000 c8dea5ad       PID: Synchronet 3.17c-Linux Mar 23 2020 GCC        TID: SBBSecho 3.10-Linux r3.152 Mar 23 2020 GCC 7.5.0       CHRS: ASCII 1       NOTE: FSEditor.js v1.103        Re: Re: AmiExpress        By: Don Lowery to Wilfred van Velzen on Thu Mar 26 2020 21:35:57                      DL> Had :2300 in the setup...but :23 kept answering/disconnecting on her end.              it appears, from what's been written here, that your terminal, whatever it       is/was, wasn't attempting to connect to the remote system's port 2300 for some       reason... it appears that it was using the default port 23 instead... different        terminals (and virtual modems if using such for old DOS programs) have       different ways of specifying the destination port to connect to... quite many       of them do not use the defacto standard of today where you tack a colon and the        port on to the end of the domain address... some use another character in       place of the colon... some use an AT command to change the destination port...       it depends on the implementation...              if you provide a little more detail on what terminal and possible virtual modem        setup you used, i'm sure that someone will provide a pointer on how to connect        to a non-standard port...                     )\/(ark       --- SBBSecho 3.10-Linux        * Origin: SouthEast Star Mail HUB - SESTAR (1:3634/12)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 57/0 90/1 153/250 154/10 203/0 220/70 221/0 226/16       SEEN-BY: 226/30 227/114 229/101 275 426 1014 240/5832 249/1 206 307       SEEN-BY: 249/317 400 267/800 280/464 5003 5006 292/854 310/31 317/3       SEEN-BY: 322/757 340/1000 342/200 396/45 423/120 633/280 712/848 770/0       SEEN-BY: 770/1 100 340 772/0 1 210 220 230 500 2452/250       PATH: 3634/12 153/757 250 770/1 280/464 229/426           |
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