Subj : [--- FNOS FTP TCP/IP ---]
To   : CHARLES ANGELICH
From : wsmith
Date : Wed Aug 30 2000 09:30 pm

RE: [--- FNOS FTP TCP/IP ---]
BY: CHARLES ANGELICH to WINSTON SMITH on Tue Aug 29 2000 16:38:00

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 CA> I don't think I ever got FNOS going here but I have used
 CA> several DOS FTP, HTTP, and telnet apps here.
 CA>
 CA> 1) Are you doing this on a DOS machine or a Windows equipped machine?

     A DOS equipped 80386 and an IBM Junior "Peanut" XT.

 CA> 2) Are you using 16bit DOS or 32bit - i.e. PC, XT, '2/3/4/586',
 CA>      Pentium, PII, PIII, or ???

     I am using MS-DOS 6.20.  However, I have CSDPMI for XEDIT thanks grants 
my 80386 DPMI services.  I am also using the EMX/GCC C compiler.  So I guess 
that I am in 16bit DOS partitions until DPMI activates its flat memory model?

 CA> 3) Do you only want access to FTP or do you also want telnet and HTTP?

     I want FTP to start (I just want to download files from my BBS 
directory), at least to start with.  I just want to snarf files.

 CA> 4) Is your dialup connection a shell account, a PPP account, 
        or ???
 
     My dialup is '???'; it is something called a "Xyplex Modem Pool".  I take 
it that it is a server on a network on a WAN in a closet with incoming lines.  
It is some sort of multiplexer on a network, you then select the adress of a 
particular machine via an RLOGIN or a TELNET connect.  It is something called 
the Boston Library Consortium Gateway server, some sort of terminal server and 
scripting combination hybrid.

 CA> 5) Your description sounds like an intranet.  Are you wanting to connect 
        via an in-house network, or the Internet?

     Apparently you feed the multiplexer server an IP address or a domain 
name and it takes you to a machine.  I believe it is some kind of intranet, 
yes.

 CA> There are several app.s I could suggest, but if I understand
 CA> what it is you want to do, I can probably offer a more useful
 CA> suggestion.
 CA>
 CA> Charles.Angelich <at>AngelFire<dot>com 

     I tried connecting to the BBSs domain name with a TELNET <name>:22 and 
then attempt to start up FTP.  FNOS returned the diagnostic "Looking for local 
connection..." and then hung.  My Sysop has informed me that this is not the 
way to perform an FTP.  When I telnet with a suffix port of '22' I see the FTP 
--- Synchronet+SBBSecho v1.28
 * Origin: Pony's Corral BBS telnet://thecorral.tzo.com (1:101/805)

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