20 Mar 99 21:46, Anthony Tibbs wrote to Dale Barnes:

 > There have been reports (and I have *seen*) two "EMSI-compliant" 
 > mailers simply unable to talk to one another.  Portal of Power, for 
 > example, breaks a few of the EMSI rules, and gives a 100% compliant 
 > mailer a real headache.  

FTS-1 is no better. D'Bridge (for example) refuses to do a telink transfer.
It always expects (and sends) the first block (with SYN - 16h) as Crc, not
checksum (as outlined in fts-1). Try writing a mailer totally "to the
word" of fts-1 and you'll have a mailer that will only work with
BinkleyTerm. :) At the very least, fts-1 should be re-written to reflect
true practice, since a strict fts-1 implementation is basically useless.

Brent

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