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   Message 326 of 786   
   Tommi Koivula to Björn Felten   
   Frontdoor holiness   
   03 Jul 18 11:59:42   
   
   * 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 (>> ). 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/   
                  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             - initialize the COM port to this baudrate   
                  /B3 /B1 /B2         (300,1200,2400)   
                  /X             - exclude support of this baudrate   
                  /X3 /X1 /X2 /X7     (300,1200,2400,splitspeed)   
                  /S            - 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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   Bummer!   
      
   'Tommi   
      
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