Answers to commonly asked questions:



Q. What is a FOSSIL?

A. FOSSIL stands for Fido-Opus-Seadog-Serial-Interface-Layer.  This is a
   program that interfaces with your modem, it allows the programmer to
   not have to write a set of modem interface routines.  The program makes
   calls to the FOSSIL to send/receive data to/from the modem.

   The two most common FOSSIL's used are X00 and BNU.


Q. Vanadium CBV is allowing user's to be verified more than once.

A. Check to make sure that your Verified User File is being written to
   an actual file on your Hard Drive [Config.exe Other|Verified User File].

   If the file is in a Non-Existant Directory, the file is not EVER being
   created, and therefore can't be used to check for Verified Users.
   Vanadium CBV checks this file, and if the file doesn't exist it will
   assume that it hasn't been used, and will allow anybody to be verified
   if their security level allows it.

   In the Pre-1.0 Beta's this wasn't an option, the file used in Pre-1.0
   Beta's was C:\XXXXX\VERIFIED.TXT [where XXXXX is the directory Vanadium
   CBV was installed to].

   Remedy:
     Send the file to the directory that Vanadium CBV is in, and name the
     file something like VERIFIED.TXT [in the case of Pre-1.0 Beta's use
     VERIFIED.TXT].

     With Multi-Node operation, copy ALL copies of VERIFIED.TXT to one (1)
     file, and set ALL copies of Vanadium CBV to use that one (1) file.


Q. What language was Vanadium CBV written in?

A. Turbo Pascal 6.0

