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to: Sean Dennis
from: Nathan Prugh
date: 2006-07-31 11:46:00
subject: Re: New version of DB

>NP>I recomend aganist those since most doors want to use tty so i
 >NP>recomend  netserial {at} www.pc-micro.com, its 25.00, normally 100.00
 >NP>but you must ask  support for the sysop discount and provide your
 >NP>fido node or for them to  telnet to the bbs for verfication (you get
 >NP>30 days trial registration until  you get it paid and have them
 >NP>verify the bbs or nodelist) which acts like a  modem, when a person
 >NP>telnets the bbs, it rings the bbs.
 >
 >Considering that I've run GameSrv before, it works just as fine as
 >NetSerial, which I've also run before.  I don't know where you get the
 >"most doors want to use TTY" idea, since I also write doors
and none of
 >my doors go out wanting to use ASCII setup (unless they're configured
 >wrong, which is nearly impossible to do, but I can see that happening).
 >
 >Then again, I run OS/2, so I use SIO/VMODEM, which works just fine.
 >
 >I do have a beta copy of NetSerial here and I know it works quite well
 >here.  However, for those who can't/don't want to pay for something,
 >GameSrv/Netfoss works very well.
 >
 >I've never heard about this "TTY" problem - you're the first
sysop I've
 >ever heard of having a problem with it - explain more in detail?

some doors uses com ports (tty in unix but not in dos duh me lol) and many
¨of times I get the windows errror when people try to use those doors or
when ¨I drop into dos remote and my older doors as well. I had gamesrv in
first ¨place and because of that, I switched to NetSerial.





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