Subj : Win2k ban?
To   : Richard Town
From : Michael Grant
Date : Wed Dec 11 2002 10:37 pm

Hello Richard.

10 Dec 02 07:49, you wrote to me:

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

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

That one won't work under NT. The one for NT that I have is Winfossil for 
Windows NT v1.00 Beta 2. Not sure what the filename was, because I don't think 
I have the original archive. I think it can be had from thebbs.org, or I can 
zip it up and send it to you if you'd like it.

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

 RT> That'd have to kludge the OS then?

Maybe not... I think basically Winfossil acts like a serial port translator, 
telling Windows what it expects to hear, while telling the DOS app what it 
expects to hear.

It seems the initial problems I had with Winfossil NT were due to me not having 
the fossil driver properly enabled. Unlike Winfossil for Win 9x, it does not 
automatically start on boot up; you have to instead invoke it either from 
AUTOEXEC.NT, or in a batch file with the command "wnfossil.exe"

Also, due to me having a different modem on my NT machine than my BBS machine, 
I had to change some of the Binkley configuration. I played with it tonight, 
and I managed to get it working properly. I polled my BBS machine using 
Winfossil/NT and Binkleyterm/DOS under NT 4.0, and it seemed to work well.

I'll test Mystic BBS/DOS 1.07.3 with Winfossil/NT and see if it works. I'll 
post here about how it goes.


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