>>> No problem PROVIDED you have a nonstandard telnet
>>> client that supports one of the obscure old BBS
>>> protocols required to use this interface.

>>i guess binkd

>>anyway i've now found it on www.ecssite.com' repository.

>>version 3.4 works for me :)

 PP> Would you be a bit more specific about where there? I've loked
 PP> in half-a-dozen places there and tried a search there, but so
 PP> far can't find it. (Probably I'm blind, but....)

actually, APMT34.ZIP is not on ecssite but over on os2site...

http://www.os2site.com/sw/dev/rexx/util/index.html

FWIW: in the fidonet IBMEWS (IBM Employee Written Software) file
distribution area, AMPTST.ZIP (and .TXT) were released back in Sept 1994...
that was version 2.9...

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