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   -=> Dale Shipp wrote to August Abolins <=-   
      
    DS> The way that I read the echos is to download a QWK packet from Maximus.   
    DS> I then read that packet using BlueWave in my WinXP virtual box.  Pretty   
    DS> much every thing else I want to do with respect to my BBS does run just   
    DS> fine in Win7, perhaps with some help from a DOS emulator called vDOS.   
    DS> Unfortunately, although BlueWave can run under vDOS, it does not act   
    DS> quite the same in a way that is critical to me.   
      
   I'm pretty happy with my setup - I use DOSBOX and Windows 10 in concert.   
      
   1. I download a QWK packet using the ftp client in Windows 10.   
      
   2. Open DOSBOX in full-screen, and run MultiMail, Qedit, and all of my old    
   DOS tools.   
      
   3. Close Multimail and create a REP packet.   
      
   4. Upload the REP packet in Windows 10.   
      
   I could never get archivers to work correctly in vDOS, but I loved the    
   screen appearance. I found a couple of tweaks to DOSBOX to smooth the    
   screen fonts and make it a bit less jaggedy.   
      
   DOSBOX lets you connect a serial port to a IP port on the host, so you could    
   connect port 23 to COMM1, and telnet by typing in ATDT . I    
   couldn't get ZModem working well enough; if I did I could skip the command-    
   line FTP steps.   
      
   It does a great job of mirroring how I called my BBS and others back in the    
   dial-up/DOS days.   
      
      
   ... Are they real, the things I experienced?   
   --- MultiMail/XT v0.52   
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