Hello,   
      
          I managed to make a little progress. I got the os2 box to logon   
   to the server. With sio, vsio, and vmodem I was able to launch   
   Frontdoor. Even did a test netmail with it. I was able to local logon to   
   the bbs but no ansi support. No external programs/dos programs errored   
   out with usual not an os2 application message. So frontdoor works, and   
   spitfire works.   
      
   one step at a time...   
      
   ... Jay   
   --- Alexi/Mail 2.03a (#51)   
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