Subj : [--- FNOS FTP TCP/IP ---]
To   : ROB SWINDELL
From : WINSTON SMITH
Date : Tue Aug 29 2000 07:45 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".
 


 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?  Is there some problem with WINDOWS
that necessitates CONTROL-C pre-empting output in only one function?  Is
there a proper method for adding newscan bases that will not scroll the
thousand base fifty screen output each time?  (Most likely I am doing
something wrong?  ...so I am working on a workaround, e.g. capture
everything to a PERL database and do my searching locally, for example,
but that is a short term solution ...and the data needs reloading
whenever the newscan udpates are changed....  Help!)
 


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