Subj : Quo vadis, FD?
To : All
From : Conrad J. Koehler
Date : Sun Sep 24 2017 12:47 am
Hi everyone!
Thanks to Ward and JoHo ( hi there! :-) ) I was finally able to enter this
eluded place!
Been a FD sysop only for a short time until I went multi-line. Still being at
school in those old days, happily collecting all old hardware friends' parents
threw away, I bought myself a used (!) MainDoor key and enjoyed the 'Pulse ESC
dos veces para entrar...' for quite a while (2 to 5 years, I do'nt remember).
But I swapped that with McMail when it became clear that it would probably
cease to work properly in the year 19100 and not get fixed. So, what am I doing
here!? Secretly, I kept FrontDoor as my favourite terminal program. It was
incredibly fast on slow machines, kept screen line #25 free for payload and had
a mostly error-free interpretation of AVATAR codes. Ward now brought me back
into Fido, and I'm (slowly.. very slowly) going towards using a classical POTS
EMSI mailer via Telnet. Specifically, in a DOSBox.
JoHo seems to work on the same thing, but I'm not so sure whether or not this
means FD is in development again.
I'd like to stay in touch to try out mutual connectivity of different mailers
in different environments over Telnet, preferring to start out with McMail for
myself, but of course also to see whether a classical DOS FD in an emulation
can still be used - or adaptions would need to be made in either FD or the
emulator.
So, let's see what is possible.
Using FD term in DOSBox gets me disconnected on most Telnet BBSs because they
'detect a port scanner', which I'm certainly not using. In a BBS that doesn't
use such a detection, I can move around as I used to, but there's no way to get
anything via ZModem. The ZModem transfer screen pops up, but it's unable to
transfer a single block. There was no other protocol choice, so I don't yet
know whether this is only ZModem specific. Has anyone more experience? Anyone
know a bunch of good Telnet BBSs that are not so picky? Anyone know a setting
in DOSBox/DOS (env. variable??) that might hold off ZModem from working?
Cheers! :-)
ius
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