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Subj : Improvement in SIO2K?
To   : Mike Luther
From : Bob Juge
Date : Wed Jul 24 2002 08:58 am

Mike Luther wrote in a message to All on Tue Jul 23 2002 at 23:54:

 ML> Surprise!

 ML> Now I may be all wet on this because I never could get it to work
 ML> in SIO before, but it looks like Ray listened carefully to me when
 ML> I commented that it wouldn't do NAME style dialing with VMODEM!

 ML> I'd upgraded to SIO2K anyway.  Out of frustration, I absently stuck
 ML> in the alphabetical name of the Internet BBS I wanted in my
 ML> NodeList for test purposes. It took a little fussing around to get
 ML> rid of the 011- append for corruption, but  ... LO!

 ML>     Poof!   VMODEM with TELNET will now handle ALPHA dialing    
 ML> instructions and you can dial direct with it to DNS2GO and    
 ML> other TEXT based shims for people with DHCP translation! 

Actually, SIO 1.60d will do this too.  Use asterisks instead of periods in the 
domain name (juge*com instead of juge.com).

                                   - Bob
Internet  : bob@juge.com
Telnet, Vmodem, WWW or FTP to juge.com

--- timEd/2 1.10.y2k+
 # Origin: COMM Port OS/2 juge.com 204.89.247.1 (281) 980-9671 (1:106/2000)
 * Origin: Baddog BBS (1:218/903)

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