Good ${greeting_time}, Mark!

11 Oct 2014 10:38:44, you wrote to Andrew Leary:

 AL>> Vmodem as implemented by Ray Gwinn's SIO & SIO2K driver sets for
 AL>> OS/2 understands both Vmodem (default port of 3141) and Telnet
 AL>> (default port of 23.) To the mailer software, it just appears to
 AL>> be a serial port with a POTS modem attached. Mark Lewis runs
 AL>> FrontDoor for OS/2 this way; I do the same with BTXE. Most of my
 AL>> mail links are using BinkD, but the capability is there for those
 AL>> that want to use it.

Do anyone?

 MH> I'm still using Vmodem over here. One of the best break through
 MH> programs in it's time, no question.

If mailers in that time could work with unnamed pipes, there would be no real
need to invent these stupid "compatibility layers"...

TWIMBI: binkd works through pipes (for example, via SSH) since 2012-09-20 - for
over 2 years.


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