On 09/26/17, Robert Wolfe said the following...
 RW> I don't think sexpots would work anyway, since FD still needs to be 
 RW> listening on a com port -- virtual or otherwise.  

Yes it would, if FD wasn't DOS or Sexpots came in an OS2 flavor.  Sexpots
works with any windows mailer... I've played with it... Used Radius I think.
It'll load... from the docs
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o Can run from command prompt or as an NT service
    o Handles modem initialization or "Null modem" connections
    o Supports Telnet (with full option negotiation) or raw TCP connections
    o Can accept "live" COM handles on the command-line (from
"front-end" app)
    o Caller-ID (CID) Support
    o Optional Ident server to communicate CID information to TCP Server
    o Telnet options used to communicate baud rate and CID info to TCP server
    o Highly configurable (via sexpots.ini file)
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The 3rd line down... can accept live...

That's it....

The user calls the mailer, presses escape twice and it pulls up the commandline
for sexpots and telnets the user to the BBS. Just like the old days where the
mailer passed the user off to the BBS.

Again, this cannot be the case with FD because its DOS, and it could/might work
with FD/2 but sexpots does not come in that flavor.

.....

Read over other aspects of your message... there would be no reason to run 
sexpots in your case.  OS/2 mailer to an OS/2 BBS.  U'd just hook a modem up
and it would work just fine.  The reason why DM made sexpots was because
his BBS software didnot support a dial up line, or does Mystic for that matter.

There are ways of getting theese applications to work over the internet.  There
are several boards running DOS apps through an internet connection... several.

Anyway, as I see it.... It would be nice if FD would/could have a vmodem setup
like it does with ray's os/2 fossil.  It would be nice if FD/Win or FD/Lin
could answer a modem call and pass a user off to a BBS.

It would be nice to see mailer-to-mailer calls like in the past...

BTW, do you have a diap up node with a mailer attached??

:)

IB JOE
AKA Joe Schweier
SysOp of Joe's Computer & BBS
Telnet: joesbbs.com

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