-=>> mark lewis wrote to Michele Marie Dalene <=-
 ml>> i believe that is/was RLFOSSIL...

 MMD>     I figured that out last night (duh!) but it does not work
 MMD> quite like bnu.sys or bnu.com. I  would like to find a TSR or
 MMD> a device driver type system.

that's the only one available for a pure DOS environment... all of they try
to emulate what ray gwinn (x00) created for the OS/2 environment with his
vmodem exe and protocol in his SIO comm interface package...

 MMD> Now from reading the manual on how it works.  do I set it up
 MMD> like this, its only an example

sorry, i dunno... i've never attempted IP stuff for the BBS in a pure DOS
setup... i went to OS/2 Warp 3 Connect when it was released for public
consumption and have never looked back... within weeks after ray released
his SIO package, i was up online with my bbs running on the telnet stuff...
i don't recall when i registered SIO but when i did, i went for the 8 port
package at that time...

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 MMD>     What other fossils  or com port emulators that are Msdos
 MMD> native are out there?

none... RLFOSSIL was the only one written, TTBOMK... everything else was
targetted at the winwhatever environments and most of those at the winNT
stuff due to its "server" classification...

 MMD> I am talking 16 bit here, Not  Windows 9x or later.
 MMD>     I have   checked my nightly CVS compiles of the Linux
 MMD> maximus and it can't find two entries which I am going to
 MMD> ask about in muffin.

yes, i'm seeing something out of whack, too... my runs consist of a totally
clean (nothing exists) build... script blows away the existing directory,
extracts the original archive, grabs the CVS, run the config, and the
build... then i look at the end of the build log to see if it tells me that
it completed correctly... if i don't see that, i go hunting...

 MMD> If they fix those mites, I might be able to run maximus on
 MMD> linux after all.

good luck! i know that bo has really been working on the telnet stuff...

if it were me, though... i'd just get (at least) OS/2 Warp 3 Connect
installed, ray gwinn's SIO package (v1.60d), and the OS/2 version of max
and do it that way... that works and has worked for many... the *nix stuff
is still very beta and unproven...

[disclaimer: i've only ever seen max from the user's side... even though
i'm compiling it and reporting errors, i've never run it... i've been
runnint RemoteAccess ever since RA v0.04 was released some 14 or so years
ago...]

)\/(ark