Re: Who is running FD as Telnet Mailer?   
     By: mark lewis to Dran Draggore on Sat Apr 02 2016 09:24 am   
      
    >  DD> The reason why NetFoss will not work is because it is a FOSSIL for   
    >  DD> telnet connections. FrontDoor is expecting a FOSSIL for serial ports.   
    >   
    > actually, frontdoor is expecting a FOSSIL, period... what is on the other   
    > side  of that FOSSIL frontdoor doesn't care about... frontdoor does send the   
    > standard   
    > analogue modem AT commands, though, so the FOSSIL should either eat them or   
    > convert them to whatever the other side needs... in the same manner that the   
    > FOSSIL will send a "RING" to frontdoor so that it knows there is an incoming   
    > connection...   
      
   I guess in that case, the problem with NetFoss might be that it is not a TSR.   
      
   I suppose the problem Elmo's having might be mailer compatibility. He did not   
   specify whether he was connecting between two FrontDoor mailers. In any case, I   
   have my doubts about connecting any oldschool mailer to a post-BBS era mailer   
   (eg. safely assume anything created after 2000).   
      
    > i think the biggest thing is to have either an all in one FOSSIL/telnet shim   
    > or   
    > at least a working FOSSIL that can talk to a telnet shim... i'm saying   
    > telnet  shim but it could be any shim... these same type things were used   
    > back in the  day when ISDN first came around so that frontdoor could talk to   
    > the ISDN device   
      
   I think using a virtual modem is the safest approach. Let the virtual modem and   
   FOSSIL do their separate jobs as originally intended by the software.   
      
    > BTW: what's your real name? this is a fidonet echo... you should use your   
    > real  name in the header or at least sign your messages with your real   
    > name... eye of   
    > the beholder 2 is over there on the other side of the park ;)   
      
   My name being used in an old computer game is purely coincidental. I should   
   sue, but the developers already took care of that in their ending credits legal   
   notice - "Any characters in this game who bear resemblance to persons living or   
   dead are purely coincidental".   
      
   "Elmo Jensen" - now that sounds like a suspicious name to me.   
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