Subj : [--- FNOS FTP TCP/IP ---]
To   : WSMITH
From : DAVE OLDRIDGE
Date : Sat Sep 09 2000 11:04 am

W > RE: [--- FNOS FTP TCP/IP ---]
W > BY: Howard Eisenberger to Winston Smith on Thu Sep 07 2000 20:02:44

W >  >  like Telix, etc.? If they, and I assume you mean your gateway server,
W >  >  want you to use FTP, why isn't it on the menu? If they don't want you
W >  >  to download binary files at all, why are you trying to?

W >      I didn't know FTP --COULD-- be on a modem gateway.  I assumed that 
TCP/IP
W > formed the connection and that FTP was just a series of commands issued 
from
W > your desktop.  I assumed that things had gone LAN by now?  Here is the
W > situation.  The BBS that I am on now has dropped his modem line.  I am 
trying
W > to preserve my traditional use of the BBS.  When I enter the files section, 
the
W > BBS displays a banner asking me to FTP to port 22.  I assume that TELNET 
BBSes
W > now want to use FTP.  I know nothing about using FTP from a PC, or about 
TELNET

Not all of them, by any means, but it sounds like yours has a server 
up.  You should be able to access that with a PPP or SLIP link to the 
internet if you can get your server to issue you an IP (by DHCP).  
Otherwise, you'll have to go with the rlogin and then download from the server 
by 
whatever means....

W > only BBSes.  I do not know --WHAT-- the people at the modem server want!  I
W > would rather use the telephone, but, alas, the Sysops don't want to 
anymore!  I
W > am trying to find a method to stay in touch.  If all I can do in the future 
is
W > leave messages, and I have to drop file activity, so be it.  I can use the
W > "sneaker net"; I can use floppy mailers; I can go to user group "set up"
W > nights; I can go to university clubs.  I am just trying to "tread water".  
We
W > are below ten BBSes in Boston and rapidly falling.  We lost two "super" 
boards
W > and three regular boards over the summer.  We have one Telegard BBS, three
W > WildCat! BBSes, two FirstClass BBSes, one PC-BOARD BBS, and one Synchronet.
W > This is from a high total of 350 boards in 1995.  (One BBS is run by the
W > electric company, another is run by the police department, a third is run 
by a
W > supermarket.  We have three or four BBSes run by private Sysops.)

The best way for me has been CommMaker/MailMaker.  CommMaker is a 
RoboComm clone for Win16 that also runs well in Win32 and it does telephone 
AND telnet access through the regular Win95 or later dial-up networking.  
But you would need to have a regular ISP for that (or at least a SLIP 
or PPP connection to your server).  I use it on Fonix all the time and 
used to use it on my own BBS here before I closed it entirely.  
(Downloaded 22,000 bytes/sec over the direct ethernet!).

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