-=> On 03-03-98  10:19, Stewart Buckingham <=-
 -=> spoke to Frank Sexton about Vmodem <=-
 -> 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.
 SB> I didn't know that. Why do we need to do this?
 I don't know why -- but that is something that I needed to do.  Without
 the loopback statement, Vmodem will not start itself.
 I created a little CMD file and put a shadow of it into my startup
 folder.  Here it is:
  -- file svmodem.cmd --
REM set the local loopback address
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
d:
cd \sio
start /min /pgm vmodem
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