Subj : Who is running FD as Telnet Mailer?
To : rick christian
From : mark lewis
Date : Sat Sep 24 2016 10:38 pm
24 Sep 16 19:33, you wrote to me:
ml>>>> the main thing to remember is that there needs to be a virtual
ml>>>> modem for FD to talk to...
rc> I know this thread is ancient... but I am curious about this...
i'm sure you're not the only one ;)
rc> Lets just pretend I am crazed.. ok.. so its not so much pretend...
hahahahaha...
rc> So I sudo apt-get install dosbox
rc> Then lets say... you put this in the dosbox conf
rc> [serial]
rc> serial1=modem listenport:3141
that's the vmodem port... it is generally used for the vmodem protocol which is
a slightly tweaked telnet...
rc> Then you mount up a C drive with FD etc... installed
rc> XOO loaded up for a FOSSIL and point FD at that FOSSIL with COM1 and
dosbox
rc> doing its virtual modem thing...
rc> And thus **** potentially *** FD would run via net versus DU???
that sounds about right... no clue if anyone has actually done it, though...
rc> Have you done this???
no... my main system (still) runs OS/2 with the original SIO/VModem stuff...
rc> I might try it after I rectify some things, due to the idea that is
rc> swirling in my brain.. this is why you should not read echos late at
rc> night! :) ;)
hahaha... the only thing i'm not sure about is being able to do true multinode
with multiple DOSBOXes... i don't know of their file locking stuff will work
across the divisions between them...
rc> I find this very interesting... although I think there are some huge
rc> problems in getting FD to actually do this ie: dial something like:
rc> fidonet.me.domain
FD doesn't have a problem dialing domains... i actually set mine up to dial
some with telnet and others with vmodem ;)
)\/(ark
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