I know this is .. crazy to ask, but has anyone tried the old sbbs for OS/2 with   
   SIO's vmodem?  It seems to 'work' if you set the modem init's for ATZ instead   
   of the normal strings....  But for the life of me I can't figure out how to get   
   the qwk stuff to work, it just quickly exits saying there was some problem with   
   the modem...   
      
   I did try commenting out all the modem initializations from qnet.src   
   recompiling and it did dialup to vert but it didn't see the CONNECT and   
   actually tried to logon with ATDT commands.. :|   
      
   So in the meantime, I did notice that I could just snag vert.qwk with FTP!   
      
   My OS/2 session is in a Qemu VM so I had to find an OS/2 beta of ncftpget..   
      
   ncftpget -F -u -p vert.synchro.net c:\sbbs\data\ vert.qwk   
      
   And lo and behold it actually downloaded the packet, and for some reason   
   pkunzip 2.04g rolled over and died .. Access 255 error ...   
   But googling around I did find replacing pkunzip with infozip and running it as   
   '%@unzip -Cojqq %f %s -d %g' did the trick, and it imported messages... lots of   
   them!   
      
   Now i just need to find out how to 'send' packets from my system to vert, and   
   I'll have an OS/2 2.0 VM running synchro ...   
      
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