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Hi Bert,

> I tried requesting a download but my hotmail account is not accepted. I
> pay for this hotmail account 69$ a year and this is the only email account

You can bypass the hotmail check by entering your email address
all in upper case. :)  The reason hotmail is "blocked" is because hotmail
assumes the download information is spam, so you will need to check
your spam folder for the email.  If you have any problems email me off
the list at mike [at] pcmicro.com and I can sent it to you as an attachment.

> It creates virtual com ports. Lets say I need 5 nodes so it could create 5
> virtual com ports. I have no physical Modem installed on my computer.
> I would launch EleBBS.EXE for each node (total of 5 instances) using these
> 5 virtual com ports. So each instance would be Waiting for call (WFC).
> Then the Telnet connection gets forwarded to a free virtual com port and
> the elebbs node linked to that com port picks up.
> Does it work like that?

That is correct.  An alternative approach if you don't want a seperate WFC
window waiting for each node to answer, is to use a Frontend such as
Argus or Radius that monitors all COM ports, (or even telnet connections)
and opens a seperate console to spawn EleBBS for each active connection.

To be honest, the only real advantage to using NetSerial is it allows
running non-fossil aware doors and other applications which require
communicating with a modem or serial port rather then a fossil driver.
Oh and also the events might work in EleBBS's WFC mode.

> And if it does that would completely take care of my and Erichs problem
> and we would be able to use the events. Virtual com ports would make it
> possible for us to use ELEBBS.EXE and avoid EleServ completely
> which ignores events.

Well it appears that EleBBS.exe does have some event issues in WFC
mode. I think using either Windows Task Manager or the Argus Cron
would be less hassle until when/if that gets resolved.

Regards,  Mike


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