On 09/26/17, Robert Wolfe said the following...   
    RW> I don't think sexpots would work anyway, since FD still needs to be    
    RW> listening on a com port -- virtual or otherwise.     
      
   Yes it would, if FD wasn't DOS or Sexpots came in an OS2 flavor.  Sexpots   
   works with any windows mailer... I've played with it... Used Radius I think.   
   It'll load... from the docs   
   :start   
   o Can run from command prompt or as an NT service   
       o Handles modem initialization or "Null modem" connections   
       o Supports Telnet (with full option negotiation) or raw TCP connections   
       o Can accept "live" COM handles on the command-line (from "front-end" app)   
       o Caller-ID (CID) Support   
       o Optional Ident server to communicate CID information to TCP Server   
       o Telnet options used to communicate baud rate and CID info to TCP server   
       o Highly configurable (via sexpots.ini file)   
   :Stop   
   The 3rd line down... can accept live...   
      
   That's it....   
      
   The user calls the mailer, presses escape twice and it pulls up the commandline   
   for sexpots and telnets the user to the BBS. Just like the old days where the   
   mailer passed the user off to the BBS.   
      
   Again, this cannot be the case with FD because its DOS, and it could/might work   
   with FD/2 but sexpots does not come in that flavor.   
      
   .....   
      
   Read over other aspects of your message... there would be no reason to run    
   sexpots in your case.  OS/2 mailer to an OS/2 BBS.  U'd just hook a modem up   
   and it would work just fine.  The reason why DM made sexpots was because   
   his BBS software didnot support a dial up line, or does Mystic for that matter.   
      
   There are ways of getting theese applications to work over the internet.  There   
   are several boards running DOS apps through an internet connection... several.   
      
   Anyway, as I see it.... It would be nice if FD would/could have a vmodem setup   
   like it does with ray's os/2 fossil.  It would be nice if FD/Win or FD/Lin   
   could answer a modem call and pass a user off to a BBS.   
      
   It would be nice to see mailer-to-mailer calls like in the past...   
      
   BTW, do you have a diap up node with a mailer attached??   
      
   :)   
      
   IB JOE   
   AKA Joe Schweier   
   SysOp of Joe's Computer & BBS   
   Telnet: joesbbs.com   
      
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