Subj : Linux beta
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Fri Aug 11 2017 07:53:14

Hi! Wilfred,

On 08/10/2017 11:22 PM, you wrote:

 PQ>> It's called Transnet but is somewhat 'dated', from pre-1998.  The
 PQ>> distro archive is available via FREQ from -this- node as 'tn211.zip'
 PQ>> (minus quotes).  I also have the required Windows utils and the
 PQ>> sources for the following version (mostly C, C++ and some object
 PQ>> files).

 WvV> It does sound a bit familiar. Was/isn't that something that irex could 
do?

I don't know.  I couldn't get iRex to run.  (Which I count as a +plus+, BTW.)  
A close approximation could be Soupgate, though I've never used it either.

But, no-no, no.  I must have had a brain-fart that late last night; I went off 
at a tangent that wasn't related to your Fmail function at all.  I've just now 
twigged to what you were talking about...

Yes, I was doing similar back around the turn of the century when I was still 
only on dial-up, and had a point operator living in Halle, Germany.  :)  I 
think I was using a package called 'Fido 2 Internet', which encoded packets 
into email and decoded incoming emails back into echomail packets.  (With the 
POP3/SMTP server I could dedicate an email address to that function.)

I think I still have the archive (FREQ-able as fd2i101.rar on my other node) 
but I can't open .RARs from this netbook, and I'm not getting out of bed for 
anyone to check it right now.  ;-)

Cheers,
Paul.

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