*** Quoting Bryan Hamilton from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 > BH> Gamesrv 3.04.27
 > BH> mSyncFos - not sure what version
 > 
 > Bryan, you need something that will act like a 'front end' and i think IREX
 > might suit easier, if you do not have a phone line.  That will allow you to
 > 'connect' and pickup/deliver mail between Fidonet sites.  You will
 > mail handing program to toss the messages between TG and the rest o
 > and I think Gecho might do well asmany with WIN95 used it with no problems.


BH> thanks for the information.  I'm seriously debating if i'm gonna link
BH> fidonet. i do have a phone line that is bbs machine exclusive. but i d
BH> think i could afford the LD bills for downloading fido packets. so the
BH> is prolly best suited for my fidonet needs

It's ok, thats why i mentioned IREX.  Thats totally using what you seem to
¨already have at no extra cost, an IP connection. If you also want to be
able to ¨dial out via POTS, you will need to setup something like
FrontDoor.  Almost no ¨one uses dial up to get fidonet packets anymore. 
I'm one of the very few.  ¨Unique circumstances due to Japan and it costs
me about 15$ a month in LD fees.

FrontDoor (FD) and IREX are both 'front ends'.  IREX will want you to setup
at ¨least the directory structure of FD, but could care less if you
actually have ¨FD running. I used to have FD with IREX activated by event. 
Others just used ¨IREX alone and activated FD when they wanted to dial
someone via POTS.

I'll have to hunt a bit, but I may still have sample batchfiles for that,
¨though they would be single-line DOS based (which I gather you are not).

If IREX doesnt suit you, take a look at ARGUS (Alternative new version
Raid?  I ¨forget and am drawing a momentary blank but another will tell
you).

BTW, if you want to provide user accessable netmail in TG, you will need a
¨nodelist compiler that can translate it.  I foget if it's version 6 or 7
but TG ¨is specific to one of the 2 and wont touch the other version. 
QNODE is what I ¨use and I can get it to you somehow if you want to add
that later and cant find ¨a software to do it with.  I do not have IP
connectivity on the BBS machine at ¨all and a dying floppy drive on the one
that does, but I could figure it out ¨eventually if it turns out to be a
problem for you finding a tool for that.  It ¨would cost me about 10cents
to deliver via dialup to any spot that can (with ¨prior arrangement)
forward it to your IP based address for example.  If you can ¨make that Bob
Seaborn, I can do it for 2cents.  USA is possibly 10cents (higher ¨rates
for me).  It's no bother at all, but it makes no sense to add it if you ¨do
not have a nodelisted number or at least a point.

                                       xxcarol

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