Hi Mike,

> -> I've never used Tribbs, can you tell me if it supports the typical tcpip
> -> protocols like ftp, telnet, etc?  Is it still supported by it's author? So
> many
>-> people ask me what the 'latest greatest' internet software is, so I like to
> at
> -> least try to keep on top of things 

> Hi Janis..
> Wayne will probably know better, but I don't think Tribbs had
> advanced that far.

Ok, makes sense.

> I think it runs like a lot of the old dos systems.
> With other peripheral software, but not any of the what we call the new
> telnet age fangled things built in. I may be wrong. Last time I logged
> onto Tribbs was back in, Wow 2004..


hehe.. I don't think I've ever seen it in action :)  But then it seems shortly
after I joined Fidonet, my spare time to just run around and log into bbs
systems kinda died.. Oh once in a while someone would ask me to log in to
check out their bbs, but that's different 

>It was one of the last fido systems
> left here in Rochester NY. Tom Leschander, remeber him? I know it was a
> favorite to a lot of sysops, but I am not sure that support moved on
> with it.

Yes, I sure do remember Tom.. I wonder what he's up to these days :)

Take care,
Janis

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