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|    Tony Langdon to mark lewis    |
|    Re: BBS software.    |
|    08 Mar 18 15:42:00    |
      -=> mark lewis wrote to Tony Langdon <=-               ml> i didn't have that... i think one thing was waffle wanting to drop the        ml> "modem" connection when the user logged out... i forget what i did to        ml> get around that but it was not ignoring the DTR... when loggin out of              I had to ignore DTR, because I wanted the modem to stay up during a reboot,       which did drop DTR, and couldn't be changed.               ml> waffle, in my setup, it did return to RA with no problems... i think we        ml> may have done the "relogon" thing around the same time... i recall        ml> having that because memory was pretty tight still and swapping out was        ml> ok for somethings but not others... so yeah, i think my waffle was an        ml> exit with an error level to the .bat to run waffle and then it would        ml> exit back with another errorlevel which i used to relogin to RA or to        ml> go on back to the mailer since the line was disconnected... that was        ml> quite some time back, man :)              RAM was always at a premium in those days, so yeah recycling the batch file had       definite advantages. My setup could have incorporated Waffle or some other       software that way, but I didn't go down that route.                     ... ** ERROR ** Unable to insert witty tagline.       === MultiMail/Win32 v0.49       --- SBBSecho 3.03-Linux        * Origin: Freeway BBS Bendigo,Australia freeway.apana.org.au (3:633/410)    |
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