Hi everyone!

Thanks to Ward and JoHo ( hi there! :-) ) I was finally able to enter this
eluded place! 
Been a FD sysop only for a short time until I went multi-line. Still being
at school in those old days, happily collecting all old hardware friends'
parents threw away, I bought myself a used (!) MainDoor key and enjoyed the
'Pulse ESC dos veces para entrar...' for quite a while (2 to 5 years, I
do'nt remember). But I swapped that with McMail when it became clear that
it would probably cease to work properly in the year 19100 and not get
fixed. So, what am I doing here!? Secretly, I kept FrontDoor as my
favourite terminal program. It was incredibly fast on slow machines, kept
screen line #25 free for payload and had a mostly error-free interpretation
of AVATAR codes. Ward now brought me back into Fido, and I'm (slowly.. very
slowly) going towards using a classical POTS EMSI mailer via Telnet.
Specifically, in a DOSBox. 
JoHo seems to work on the same thing, but I'm not so sure whether or not
this means FD is in development again. 
I'd like to stay in touch to try out mutual connectivity of different
mailers in different environments over Telnet, preferring to start out with
McMail for  myself, but of course also to see whether a classical DOS FD in
an emulation can still be used - or adaptions would need to be made in
either FD or the emulator. 

So, let's see what is possible. 
Using FD term in DOSBox gets me disconnected on most Telnet BBSs because
they 'detect a port scanner', which I'm certainly not using. In a BBS that
doesn't use such a detection, I can move around as I used to, but there's
no way to get anything via ZModem. The ZModem transfer screen pops up, but
it's unable to transfer a single block. There was no other protocol choice,
so I don't yet know whether this is only ZModem specific. Has anyone more
experience? Anyone know a bunch of good Telnet BBSs that are not so picky?
Anyone know a setting in DOSBox/DOS (env. variable??)  that might hold off
ZModem from working? 

Cheers! :-)

 ius
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