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whoa... what "echos all the characters"???

 PL> So... I'll ask again.  Does anybody have FD running via
 PL> telnet, inbound and outbound, with it passing to the BBS
 PL> without flaw for BBS callers, and if so, please shed some
 PL> light on my end on the workaround that is obviously needed.

i've been doing FD with telnet over here since Ray Gwinn's SIO was
available for OS/2... never had that problem... you're running this on a
winwhatever box, i presume, since you mention COM/IP???

 PL> I do get angry when I go through DefSol and they refer me
 PL> to "third party" people, or those who have done it, but at
 PL> least they don't ask me -why-.

hehehe... well, since they don't run their stuff on winwhatever, having
seen the splat on the wall some many years ago, i can't say that they are
doing too badly... at least they can reference you to someone
>

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 PL> Understand, please, I am not flying off of anything...  just
 PL> that DefSol Ave. seems to be a dead end street at times, and
 PL> I was hoping (praying) that this would be diferent.

ya gotta understand that fidonet doesn't put food on the table and as i
understand it, mats and joho have more mouths to fee then just their own...
i know that joho got married some years ago and had a baby at least 4 years
ago...

->> The original poster was talking about having it just "poll" out
->> while someone is online.  For one, you'd have to have another
->> TASK and another "com port virtual" setup to do so, and the user
->> would see NOTHING while it did this.

 PL> Yea... tasks are a given... event1.fd, event2.fd, route1.fd,
 PL> etc...  the whole idea is for the BBS user to see nothing, and
 PL> have it operate no different than if set up on multiple nodes
 PL> via dial-up with rollover numbers.  I have gone the route of
 PL> using Com/IP with virtual modems rather than just emulated
 PL> comports to the same result of naught.  ANY help you can
 PL> provide will not be accepted with notbhing less than grace,
 PL> and praises... it seems that the short init strings alloweed
 PL> by FD won't let it work as I need.

sometimes i have to wonder if "less is more"... granted, i don't
do winwhatever unless forced at gunpoint but... all those init strings and
guff and stuff... sheesh... i set fd to ATZ and let if fly... both inbound
and outbound have always worked as desired other then when the pipeline
gets overfull...

->> Telnet over

->> telnet://ttb.slyip.com

->> Or poll me with a mailer to see. ;)

 PL> I would -LOVE- to poll, shed light on what I need to do for
 PL> the outbound, and I -WILL-...  you would make my year.

i/we look forward to hearing that you made it!

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