-=> /* Quoting William Herrera to Steven Cox */ <=-
 SC> Vmodem will not start without a tcpip connection 
 SC> running.  However, once it is started, it will stay up 
 SC> when the connection goes down.  You will never know it 
 SC> is there because it uses no (very little) cpu time.
 WH> Actually, if you have at least one tcp-ip setup
 WH> available--even the loopback protocol--Vmodem will
 WH> start. I know this because I start it from the startup
 WH> folder, and the ISP connection takes several minutes
 WH> to start up, but VMODEM starts up right away.
True.  I start it from my startup folder too for my node
two of my BBS.  No TCP/IP connections at all.  But I do
start the routine TCP/IP loopback during startup.  Warp is
the only system I know that doesn't come with this loopback
stared by default but relies on the user to code it in.
For those that don't know how...  it's done like this...
rem Set the LOCAL LOOPBACK address
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
Everyone should do this. A lot of software *assumes* that
your system is set up this way right out of the box.  Warp
4 isn't.
-Frank
(fsexton@ibm.net - http://www.concentric.net/~fsexton)
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