-=> Rick Christian wrote to Tony Langdon <=-   
      
    RC> I ran FD during the days I had my stuff on modem, specifically because   
    RC> I disliked (and still do) bink. Unfortunately on the NATIVE Linux side   
    RC> there seems to be little elese available.  There were reasons as to why   
    RC> FD made sense   
    RC>  to me at the time. I even added in Terminate as a point system for   
    RC> some things. Although my main point was just my old FD setup made into   
    RC> a point, when   
    RC>  I moved all mystuff into my office where I had the phone lines to   
    RC> spare.   
      
   Bink worked for me, and when I had my point running GIGO (the point was spun   
   off the original BBS), Bink's bidirectional transfer protocol saved a lot of   
   time, with a lot of mail travelling in both directions, especially in the   
   earlier days, when I was running 2400 bps.  Was interesting seeing bot RxD and   
   Txd lights on continuously. :)   
      
    RC> So the possabiity of a NATIVE LINUX FD... is like nirvana! FD made   
    RC> sense to me where as bink doesn't and still doesn't. I think there is   
    RC> also a Linux version of the tosser I used at that time too. Right now   
    RC> the only piece of the puzzle that is missing is FD.   
      
    RC> I had FD, BGFAX, GIGO all running. I actully tested BGFA and GIGO.   
      
   I was a big fan of GIGO at the time. :)   
      
    RC> I'd love to find a Linux path for GIGO, the various UseNet/EMAIL to   
    RC> Fido gating   
    RC>  systems all seem to be DOA regardless of OS. I may still scrape all   
    RC> the pieces   
    RC>  together and mix up a VM with DOSBox etc. to try this out for a   
    RC> project, but I've got other things on the list right now.   
      
   Yeah, all are dead, as are the ham packet radio to FTN gating systems that were   
   around in the 90s. :( Sadly, GIGO is abandonware.  Someone would have to   
   rewrite a clone from the ground up. :(   
      
      
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