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|    mark lewis to Leslie Given    |
|    telnetdoor / netfoss    |
|    04 May 16 17:06:14    |
      04 May 16 12:15, you wrote to Shawn Highfield:               LG> Both the bbslink.exe and the telnetdoor.exe work great over here in WINXP        LG> SP3. Not really sure why your is having issues tiny. I do think the both        LG> are the same program using the same RMlib maybe someone just renamed        LG> telnetdoor to bbslink plus i thing mine are different version builds of       the        LG> same software.              i don't think they can simply be renames but it is possible... i think the key       is different folders and different dlls... if they are the same, perhaps it is       the different version builds that's the difference i spotted... if that's the       case, then the author would be the one that renamed them, right?               LG> \doors\bbslink\bbslink.exe size 11,264 date 04/01/2015        LG> RMLib.dll size 189,440 date 03/14/2015               LG> \doors\CBnet\telnetdoor.exe size 11,246 date 10/13/2015        LG> RMLib.dll size 197,632 date 10/13/15              11264 - 11246 = 18 bytes difference between telenetdoor.exe and bbslink.exe       with bbslink being the larger and older...              197632 - 189440 = 8192 bytes difference between the two RMLib.dlls with the       telnetdoor one being both larger and newer...              i note also the specifying of the information is done differently with one       seemingly having () around each parameter and the other not... comparing the       two shows the different formats as well as the different command line       parameters being fed to the programs... -X and -Y are certainly used       differently...               LG> set host=(games.bbslink.net)        LG> set syscode=(fluph)        LG> set authcode=(xxxxxxxxxxxx)        LG> set schemecode=(xxxxxxxxxxx)        LG> bbslink.exe -W%host% -X%syscode% -Y%authcode% -Z%schemecode%               LG> set BBSNAME=XXXXXX        LG> set PASSCODE=XXXXXXX        LG> set SERVER=server.name.net        LG> set PORT=XXXX        LG> set DROPFILE=%1%DROPTYPE%        LG> TelnetDoor -D%DROPFILE% -R -S%SERVER% -P%PORT% -Y%BBSNAME%%2 -X%PASSCODE%                     )\/(ark              Always Mount a Scratch Monkey              ... Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.       ---        * Origin: (1:3634/12.73)    |
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