Hello, Jay.

Friday March 25 2011 at 23:19, you wrote to All:

 JD> I was wondering if anyone was still here?

Just us old-timers.

 JD> I am interested to know if anyone still run old dos based bbs
 JD> software AND have their system on internet, telnet?

Lots of us do, myself included.  Heck, I still write "old"
DOS-based BBS doors and sysop utilities...

 JD> If so do you have problems with fossil drivers?

Depends...

 JD> I thought maybe OS/2 might be a choice. I found out quickly that I am
 JD> OS/2 challanged and it is problematic at best. OS/2 insists on iee
 JD> 802.2 framework topology and netware uses 802.3. OS/2 does NOT like
 JD> bnu. OS/2 wants lots of ram, the machine I have is only capable of
 JD> 512meg. OS/2 project: shelved due to my inability to understand it.

I've been running OS/2 for 15 years now and it's rock-solid stable.  I even
have a setup where people can telnet in via their web browser using a
program called fTelnet ("flash telnet").

That's because you don't use BNU under OS/2: you use SIO/VMODEM (SIO are
the I/O system drivers, VMODEM is the telnet engine). :)  SIO has VX00, a
"virtual" FOSSIL driver, built-in that is used for the OS/2 DOS
subsystem.

I have had OS/2 running on a system with 64MB RAM before with telnet
access.  I think your problem is like you said: inexperience.  What version
of OS/2 do you have?  It sounds like that you definitely just need a wee
bit of help in setting up OS/2, so check out the OS2 echo here in Fidonet
or http://www.os2world.com.

 JD> So does anyone have any ideas on how I can get my ancient hardware on
 JD> telnet/internet?

Why are you insisting on running Novell these days?

Later,
Sean

... Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. - Oscar Wilde
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