In a msg on , Jussi Hamalainen of 2:221/376
writes to Zorch Frezberg:
 RD>> I'm interested in taking my BBS telnet.  Could somone who's 
 RD>> done this let me know what's involved?  I'm especially 
 RD>> un-knowledgable about the kind of provider I'd need, and 
 RD>> how much that will cost.
 ZF>> If you find out, let me know...we're trying to work it out 
 ZF>> in Win95 right now. 
 JH> Use COM/IP or VCOM. VCOM is inbound only and still in it's betas 
 JH> and could be that the author has given up on the idea since 
 JH> their website has gone down. COM/IP supports connections in 
 JH> both ways, but it is shareware and the price for a single 
 JH> computer is somewhere around $50.
Tried COM/IP...no such luck.  MAXIMUS keeps going into "local" mode, and 
passing not a thing to the telnet 'caller'.
Set it to run as "virtual" COM5, and emulate as COM3...nothing.  Still goes 
into 'local' mode.
With or without WinFOSSIL, with or without COM/IP...with or without ARGUS as 
a 'front-end'.
I can get it to run on a _dial-up_ with ARGUS and without COM/IP...but in a 
TCP/IP environment, I can get a program started from a telnet session, but I 
won't see the results until the command is executed and the COM port is 
'released', which 'drops' the connection and gives me the prompt again.
Getting a bit frustrated, since I can't change the OS...it's got to run under 
Win95, or I have to build another system. If I do _that_, I'll probably not 
be using MAXIMUS...which was the whole point of setting it up in the first 
place.
Any and all suggestions still welcome...For now, I have ARGUS running at the 
IP to pick up or send mail/files via FTN over the InterNet.
-zf- 
zorch@repairnet.com
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