Maurice Kinal wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 MK> Hey Roy!

 MK> I took the liberty of cutting and pasting the following text from a
 MK> message from you to me that shows up as a dupe.  A number of your
 MK> messages end up this way here which is why I have a point off Janis
 MK> as well as the node as they never make it to there, dupe or
 MK> otherwise.  Anyhow,

 MK> ----------------cut n' paste now!!!---------------------
 MK> Yeah,  that's the other thing...

 MK> I can have somebody log in at this console here,  but not on any of
 MK> the other machines on the LAN.
 MK> ----------------end cut n' paste now gosh darn it!!!----

 MK> Gotta love this manual override eh?  Makes me wonder why all users
 MK> don't have such a thing.  I really like being in the driver's seat.
 MK> Stinkin' robots!  :-) 

 MK> Anyhow I agree.  The BBS ought to be available to all machines on
 MK> the LAN which is why I have a major problem with the current
 MK> strategy and have said so many, many times and will continue saying
 MK> so.  The connection shouldn't matter to the BBS package.  If
 MK> someone sends the proper signal from however they are connected
 MK> then the BBS should give them whatever it is the BBS is in business
 MK> of giving them. 

The thing is,  it was do-able.  If you were running the OS/2 version,  and
you had installed SIO,  that package had what it called a
"vmodem" (virtual modem?) function that would make it appear that
there were a whole mess of modems connected to the machine,  and max would
be happy with that.

Maybe that sort of a shim is one way to go?  It wouldn't require any
changes to the Maximus code.  OTOH,  it does strike me as being a bit of a
kludge,  and not really all that necessary now that the source is
available,  particularly if the way you're talking about doing it is
workable.  Not having a clue as to how much of this stuff works I'm not
real sure how easy it'd be.

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