On 2018 Jul 02 20:19:00, you wrote to me:

 MV>>> Classic POTS mailers can't "dial internet numbers" anyway. They can
 MV>>> only dial numbers on the public telephone system.

 ml>> my FrontDoor highly disagrees with you... it depends on what the
 ml>> FOSSIL and a possible additional OS level shim can do... consider a
 ml>> FOSSIL driver that speaks telnet and no shim is needed ;)

 TL> SIO/Vmodem could do it with ATDT , or ATDT ,
 TL> which is common to a lot of virtual modem based serial to telnet
 TL> gateways (works in DOSBox too).

yep... i kinda still like the idea of a FOSSIL that does the necessary
translations but in this day in time, everyone is loading dll or so files for
these types of capabilities... that's almost an interesting idea, too...
FOSSIL.dll...

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