Subj : Win2k ban?
To   : Michael Grant
From : Richard Town
Date : Tue Dec 10 2002 07:49 am

 -=> Quoting Michael Grant to Richard Town <=-

 MG>> while NT is a little more familiar, and older BBS stuff will
 MG>> still work under it.
 RT> Yes, but how did you get WinNT4 to allow DOS calls to a hardware modem
 RT> with a DOS mailer/BBS in a DOS box?
 RT> I'm sure there was a way, but I can't find it now...
 MG> I don't recall 100%, because I don't have it working right now, but I
 MG> think how I had it working the one time it did, was by calling a fossil
 MG> within the DOS box itself.

ADF was supposed to but I think this is a deliberate restriction within
WinNT-style OSs.  Certainly ADF doesn't although using FrontDoor at least
the mailer loads, but locks up on an incoming call

 MG> Not all fossils work under NT, and not all
 MG> mailers, but I did once have BinkleyTerm answering incoming calls on
 MG> the NT machine. Even if you can get the connection to work, handing it
 MG> off to a BBS provides yet another stumbling block.

Yes, saw the postings about that

 MG> There never was a complete fossil written for NT; Winfossil tried to
 MG> make one, but it didn't work well, and the others that are out there
 MG> are geared to using telnet connections, adding fossil support for DOS
 MG> doors.

I've only got:
WNFOS112.ZIP [01] [ WinFOSSIL v1.12 ] 32-bit FOSSIL driver for Windows 95.
xDramatically improves transfer speeds FOSSIL-aware software written running
under Windows 95.  Includes support for FOSSIL-aware 32-bit applications
such as Binkleyterm-32! SHAREWARE

 MG> Someone should take pity on us NT Fidonetters, and write a real fossil
 MG> driver for NT based OS's...

That'd have to kludge the OS then?

Thanks for the reply
Richard


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