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   Hi! August,   
      
   On 05 Apr 20 19:53, you wrote to Alan Ianson:   
      
    AI>> It's an external SRIF utility that's needed for binkd that is not   
    AI>> well known.   
      
    AA> I don't know what SRIF is.  Google tells me it's a somatotropin   
    AA> release  inhibiting factor.  LOL   
      
   It's described most recently in FSP-1040.  It's so simple that even I   
   understood it enough to design a DOS batch server method of handling FREQs in   
   binkD, Argus & Radius.   
      
   On the client side, the result is a simple ASCII text file containing a list   
   of filenames, one per line, requesting either real names or majic versions as   
   concocted by the server's sysop.  To get to that point requires some voodoo,   
   usually with a netmail editor using the FREQ attribute (most BBS editors   
   can't) and a compliant tosser is required to act on the 'direct'/FREQ nature   
   of the netmail (some don't).   
      
   In realising the need for a simple text file, one can use an approriate editor   
   to produce one.  (Filename is -not- important, though the 'extension' is.    
   I've used current date/time for quick resolution in the past; example:   
   "06041050.req".) I've experimented successfully on several occasions by simply   
   letting the file languish in a *filebox* configured for a peer system, for the   
   mailer to transmit to the server during a session achieved by some other means.   
      
    AA> I thought most bbs softwares (especially sychro and mystic, the   
    AA> majority  in fsxnet?) supported freq, built-in.   
      
   Nope.  Not a lot of folks took the time to study the proposal (current status   
   still, I think; not a standard yet).   
      
   Cheers,   
   Paul.   
      
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