Subj : [--- FNOS FTP TCP/IP ---]
To   : Rob Swindell
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Wed Aug 30 2000 06:49 am

RE: [--- FNOS FTP TCP/IP ---]
BY: Rob Swindell to WINSTON SMITH on Wed Aug 30 2000 01:43 pm

 >  >  WS> How do I use FNOS to connect to the FTP port of a Synchronet
 >  >  WS> BBS ?
 >  >
 >  >  RS> I know Synchronet (I'm the author), but I'm not familiar
 >  >  RS> with FNOS.  What is FNOS?
 >  >
 >  >      FNOS is a DOS TCP/IP client that does FTP, PPP, and POP mail.  I
 >  > was requested when connecting to TELNET BBSes to use FTP rather than
 >  > XMODEM because FTP packets do not need to be serial and are more
 >  > efficient over an Internet WAN connection.  I am trying to learn how to
 >  > use a DOS FTP client.  I have been able to modem dialup a terminal
 >  > server, but I can't figure out how to get an FTP session going.  The
 >  > mainframes and minis I used to use would take care of all of the
 >  > overhead.  I would start an internet program like D.E.C. Janus-Net and
 >  > the daemons and servers would be started up in the background.  I would
 >  > just type FTP and I would be sitting at an FTP prompt, all ready to type
 >  > "dir".
 > 
 > So this client works with other FTP servers, but not a Synchronet FTP server
 > 
 >  >  RS> I guess I won't be of much help, sorry.
 >  >
 >  >      Maybe you can answer a Synchronet question, then?  When I join the
 >  > FidoNET network area on Synchronet, when I am paging through the
 >  > thousand message bases looking for a particular message base, when I
 >  > find it and try to interrupt the output (like when I wish to add a new
 >  > base to the newmail scanner) with a Control-C, how come the entire
 >  > thousand message bases scrollby in non-stop mode, and yet, when I wish
 >  > to join a single base via "join" instead of "newscan update" and I type
 >  > a control-c, the output stops immediately and I get an input prompt.
 >  > Why do I need to scroll through fifty screens every time that I wish to
 >  > modify or examine a newscan setting?
 > 
 > #1, it would be a good idea to split up the FidoNet subs into multiple,
 > smaller, message groups that would be easier to manage.
 > 
 > #2, if you have screen pause on, just hitting 'N' at the pause prompt will s
 > the listing.

Sorry, this does NOT work in v3 and will be fixed in the next release.

Rob

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