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 Message 86 
 mark lewis to Dran Draggore 
 Who is running FD as Telnet Mailer? 
 02 Apr 16 09:24:56 
 
01 Apr 16 23:35, you wrote to Elmo Jensen:

 EJ>> I have tried to setup FD as Telnet Mailer, but without luck.

 DD> What's the problem ?

 EJ>> I'm using Netserial, and have set it up for Com2.

 EJ>> I'm using ADF as fossil, and I can connect with it. I have tried
 EJ>> Netfoss too,  but that did'nt work at all!

 DD> The reason why NetFoss will not work is because it is a FOSSIL for telnet
 DD> 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...

 EJ>> If any of you guys or girl out there, are using FD as your primary
 EJ>> mailer with  Telnet, so please give me some response.

 DD> I have done preliminary testing with NetSerial, FrontDoor and
 DD> RemoteAccess. Everything works as expected.

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 ;)

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 ;)

)\/(ark

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