Subj : Who is running FD as Telnet Mailer?
To : mark lewis
From : Dran Draggore
Date : Sat Apr 02 2016 07:52 pm
Re: Who is running FD as Telnet Mailer?
By: mark lewis to Dran Draggore on Sat Apr 02 2016 09:24 am
> DD> The reason why NetFoss will not work is because it is a FOSSIL for
> DD> telnet connections. FrontDoor is expecting a FOSSIL for serial ports.
>
> actually, frontdoor is expecting a FOSSIL, period... what is on the other
> side of that FOSSIL frontdoor doesn't care about... frontdoor does send the
> standard
> analogue modem AT commands, though, so the FOSSIL should either eat them or
> convert them to whatever the other side needs... in the same manner that the
> FOSSIL will send a "RING" to frontdoor so that it knows there is an incoming
> connection...
I guess in that case, the problem with NetFoss might be that it is not a TSR.
I suppose the problem Elmo's having might be mailer compatibility. He did not
specify whether he was connecting between two FrontDoor mailers. In any case, I
have my doubts about connecting any oldschool mailer to a post-BBS era mailer
(eg. safely assume anything created after 2000).
> i think the biggest thing is to have either an all in one FOSSIL/telnet shim
> or
> at least a working FOSSIL that can talk to a telnet shim... i'm saying
> telnet shim but it could be any shim... these same type things were used
> back in the day when ISDN first came around so that frontdoor could talk to
> the ISDN device
I think using a virtual modem is the safest approach. Let the virtual modem and
FOSSIL do their separate jobs as originally intended by the software.
> BTW: what's your real name? this is a fidonet echo... you should use your
> real name in the header or at least sign your messages with your real
> name... eye of
> the beholder 2 is over there on the other side of the park ;)
My name being used in an old computer game is purely coincidental. I should
sue, but the developers already took care of that in their ending credits legal
notice - "Any characters in this game who bear resemblance to persons living or
dead are purely coincidental".
"Elmo Jensen" - now that sounds like a suspicious name to me.
