Subj : Internet Rex
To   : Gregory Deyss
From : Roy Witt
Date : Sun Sep 30 2012 16:14:12


29 Sep 12 13:00, Gregory Deyss wrote to Roy Witt:

 GD> Thanks for your reply Roy.
 GD> I still don't understand why I could not enter that area to indicate
 GD> passwords. However the problem is now fixed. What I did was I
 GD> obtained a fresh copy of irex 2.29 (windows version) where rex runs
 GD> within my windows tray.

Ahhh. So perhaps the REX executable was corrupt.

 GD> This time when I went throught the config for Irex everything worked
 GD> fine, including the password area under connection manager.

Good.

 GD> I am re-doing my BBS system, I really wanted to use PX/DOS and
 GD> wildcat 4.20 but I can not seem to get any netmail or echo mail to
 GD> toss into the correct directory so that irex can see it.

Wildcat software is a real bear to work with in that regard.

 GD> I also use binkd.

You should be able to use that with your synchronet.bbs.

 GD> Netmail and echomail tosses into the BBS fine. So I am will
 GD> now be setting up frontdoor and synhronet bbs for windows, from what
 GD> I have seen of this so far it looks feature-rich. I just hope that it
 GD> is not a nightmare to configure.

I can't say that I find anything good about synchronet, but there are
people who're using it successfully. I'd classify it with wildcat
software.


                R\%/itt


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