Hello Michiel,

MvdV>>> A wild goose chase. There is nothing there regarding any Fidonet
MvdV>>> node (s)he supposedly ran. Somebody wasted my valuable time.

HD>> Then you did not read the right links:

MvdV> The "wild goose chase" referred to the link to the CV.

That was the second less important link, I made a mistake in it.

HD>> http://www.eveliensnel.com/bbs/bulletin/bull_3.html
HD>> http://www.eveliensnel.com/bbs/bulletin/bull_5.html
HD>> http://www.eveliensnel.com/bbs/bulletin/bull_6.html
HD>> These 3 tell you the whole story.
HD>> From writing FTS1 software PC systems who did not keep to the official
HD>> standard en he had to bypass that with his self written software

MvdV> Of course we have only HIS word that the problems were due to OTHERS not
MvdV> following standards. It is not the first time in the history of Fdioet
MvdV> that such claims were made..

I know, but I am sure the are software pakackages that do not folluw 100 %
exactly the written protocol as defined in the FTSC standaards.
I.e. one makes it perfectly working at an 80186 machine,
but at an 80286 machine the timings are different,
so the time out comes sooner that it does not work anymore the same as before.
More ugly is software that does not follow the standard, what often happends
when programming bad.

One programmer writing a Point package for RISC OS wanted to test links with
my FrontDoor, and he came to the same conclusion that FD did not follow the
standard.
But I also know of errors at the side of that both programmers.
The second one f.i. deleted a a good working protocol in the next version of
his package, for strange reasons.

HD>> to exhange mail with FidoNet nodes. I think that is much enough proof
HD>> of it.

MvdV> I did read that part.

MvdV> Folowed by: "he gave up". So what does that prove?

That he at least has tried to get it working despite not 100 % following the
documented protol, but to change it, to get it working.
He gave up because of political reasons.
It was a one way love, and that does never hold on for long.
It does prove he had a working 8 bit fido connection.
Otherwise he could not exchange mail with his fellow FidoNetters.

Lateron (s)he accidently deleted his software, and had to write it again.
Since then it was not FTS0001 compliant anymore ;-(.
Stupid to no not make backups of such important software created at a long
testing period. If only a print out version could also be a backup.
Typing in is much work, write again from scratch is much more ;-(.

MvdV> No, I am not going to wade through it again. Next time please just don't
MvdV> give 20 pages to wade through, give the exact paragraph(s) where to
MvdV> look, instead of having to read all the babble..

Sorry for giving the wrong links in the first time.
I can ask Simon Voortman if he still has that old 8 bit BBCscan software.
He is a much better programmer than Evert Snel was.

Greetings from Henri.

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