-=> Bill Gordon scribbled to Chip Hearn <=-

 BG> 16 Nov 40 19:20, you wrote to me:

 CH> I have ideas and suggestions... but, as I don't know the pertinent
 CH> information, will withhold them.

 CH> What kind of system, , BBS, etc...

 BG> I'm running WinXP on a PII/400 machine, with EleBBS (a RemoteAccess
 BG> clone), with NetFos as my fossil.  Since I don't have phone access, I
 BG> use telnet only, using EleBBS's own Eleserv as the telnet agent.

Hmmm... I never had any luck with EleBBS... I tried it... :)

 BG> I tried to set up v4.06, but the error it kept giving me was "LoRD must
 BG> be started with start.bat (which I was doing).

I've seen this occur, but, that was with SynchroNet BBS, and changing to
use the "Start.bat" file fixed it.  Just had to pass the parameters
differently.

 BG> According to Mike Ehlert, one of the anchor members of the EleBBS team:

 ME>This is caused by a bug in older versions of LORD, which conflicts
 ME>with the telnet protocol.

 ME>I added a work around to fix it the problem in NetFoss 0.7.2 but
 ME>as of NetFoss version 0.8.5b this work around was removed,
 ME>because it prevented binary file transfers from working and also
 ME>because Michael Preslar had fixed the problem in the current
 ME>beta version of LORD "4.07 in the works" about 2 years ago.
 ME>(This is mentioned in NETFOSS.DOC).

 ME>You can request to download the latest beta version of LORD
 ME>by sending an email to e_maus{at}covingtononline.com with a
 ME>subject line of "send me lord" with no quotes."

 BG> Well, I sent the emails, and got no reply.  So, what can I do? I really
 BG> don't have any traffic to speak of, but maybe running LoRD will help
 BG> attract users.

Well, from what I'm reading, you could either A. Switch to the older
NetFoss 0.7.2 and see if that fixes your problem. B. Log into my BBS
here and download the Lord 4.07B that I have online.  C. Keep running
the 4.02 that you said works.  But I don't know if it will work with the
IBBS stuff that's being used today.  

Anyway, those are some of my thoughts.  I know, not want you wanted to
hear?  :)  



Sniper
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