Subj : binkley xe
To   : Roy J. Tellason
From : Paul Lentz
Date : Sat Dec 14 2002 09:08 pm

Roy J. Tellason wrote in a message to Paul Lentz:

 PL> today... FTS0001 packet dates get grunged  ummm... might even

RJT> I guess I must be missing something here,  because I don't see
RJT> where bink has anything to do with packet dates.  It doesn't create
RJT> them,  at least not here.  The only thing I have it doing is answer
RJT> the phone,  transfer files back and forth,  and hand off to another
RJT> package for dialing my uucp connection,  or to the bbs.  That,  and
RJT> kick off the mail tossing process when there's some incoming.

RJT> Where does it deal with packet dates?

FTS-0001 calls produce an outgoing packet header that it sends to the other 
machine that is filled up like normal packets with originating/destination 
zone/net/node info and password, date/time info, etc.. Both machines exchanges 
that instead of the EMSI handshake information. Of course FTS-0001 is rarely 
used... but it is broken in older non-y2k binks.

Also for example... the BTXE 2.60 XR6??? early-ish version I'm running right 
now also has the date proudly displayed as "102/12/14"... I couldn't get later 
versons running correctly so I live with it, also later verions had pull down 
this, zoom that, buffer this other stuff that was useless code bloat for an 
unattended mailer that you touch a key on once a week.


*Paul*
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