Will Honea,

03-Nov-99 21:10:02, Will Honea wrote to Andy Roberts
 WH> Andy Roberts wrote to Holger Granholm on 11-03-1999
          Subject: An Inquiring Mind

 AR>> VModem does not need a full time connection to your ISP.  VModem
 AR>> does require that you establish your temporary dial up connection
 AR>> to your ISP before loading.  It gets a TCP/IP stack ID#, like any
 AR>> other Internet client thread. VModem also needs to have the
 AR>> Internet port assigned.

 WH> Not exactly, Andy.  I use Vmodem here such that it triggers Injoy
 WH> on demand.  It does not require a connection before loading, just
 WH> that tcp/ip be up and running.

You're right.  I knew that long ago and forgot about it.  User memory failure.

 WH> By default it uses the 'well-known' telnet port ( 23 ) but you can
 WH> assign it to any port you want via command line parms.  I run it on port
 WH> 60 which is defined to be 'user defined' to avoid conflicts with
 WH> telnetd. That lets me have port 23 available full time (and
 WH> simutaneously active with Vmodem) for incoming telnet. I can have
 WH> several telnet sessions and Vmodem all going at once.

Interesting.  With that setup I could leave the Telnet node on the BBS active
and still use VModem on another port for outbound at the same time.

 WH> Like you, I assign it an SIO port that is out of the way but I don't
 WH> assign the virtual interrupt since I never use it with DOS programs
 WH> anyway.

Terminate and it's TerMail are about the only DOS prgms I still use.  I figure
since I'm beginning to forget things I once knew faster than I can learn new
things, my learning curve would be too steep to change unless I set aside some
time when I'm not trying to do so many other things.

Thanks for correcting my misinformation.

     Thanks and Good Luck,        Andy Roberts
                                  andy@shentel.net
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