> I was checking out a special FOSSIL doing about the same thing
 > as VModem, but for DOS using a DOS TCP/IP stack, and I
 > noticed how it operated in a singular way... Instead of
 > being a normal FOSSIL, load as a TSR or device driver and be
 > happy, it loaded itself, set up an ISR, then shelled to the
 > application...

[..]

Uh, fair enough, but what's wrong with:

    FOSSIL /load
    FOSSILapp
    FOSSIL /unload

?

BTW: Are the VMODEM specs. available anywhere?

 > And another idea came to me looking for something in
 > FSC-0015... About the talks lately on the creation of an
 > uniform serial number for a site... Many sites running
 > Fidonet software also uses FOSSIL.

    Indeed - but what about editors/mail readers? They seldom need a FOSSIL
driver to be loaded, and when run in a LAN environment, there's little or
no use for them on a workstation not running a mail delivery agent, no?

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