Subj : Frontdoor holiness
To   : Bj�rn Felten
From : Tommi Koivula
Date : Tue Jul 03 2018 11:59 am

* Originally in FIDONEWS
* Crossposted in FDECHO

Monday July 02 2018 21:35, Bj�rn Felten wrote to Bj�rn Felten:

BF>
BF>>     In comes this 17yo Swedish kid with a Turbo Pascal program that
BF>> could distinguish between mailer calls and BBS-callers (<press Esc
Twice>>> ). He called it Frontdoor.
BF>
BF>    In case someone should be interested, here's the very first version of
BF> FrontDoor from 1986-10-12. It has quite some historical value IMHO.
BF>
BF> http://eljaco.se/FILES/BBS/FD100.ZIP

Hmm...

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p:\fd100>fd /?

+ FrontDoor v1.0 - October 12th, 1986
From Future Hacker Central FIDO 501/4609, Sweden
Copyright (c) 1986 by Joaquim Homrighausen & Peter Stewart, all rights reserved

Usage:         FD/<port_number>
              FD/1 or FD/2

Switches:      /I                - install defaults (use as only parameter)
              /?                - display this text
              /N                - don't initialize modem
              /K                - use constant speed against modem
              /L                - log transactions in file FD.LOG
              /Q                - quiet, don't beep at connect
              /B<n>             - initialize the COM port to this baudrate
              /B3 /B1 /B2         (300,1200,2400)
              /X<n>             - exclude support of this baudrate
              /X3 /X1 /X2 /X7     (300,1200,2400,splitspeed)
              /S<nn>            - connect code for splitspeed (CCITT V.23)
              /S11 /S7            (8 = default)

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 12:00:41 | FrontDoor v1.0 by Joaquim Homrighausen & Peter Stewart |
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|==========================================================�        |
|                                                          |        |
|  - Disk read error. PC=636A                              |        |
|  - Internal error, exiting...                            |        |
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+==========================================================�========+
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Bummer!

'Tommi

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