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Bob Jones wrote to Bo Simonsen about ''STDIO'':

 -=>> Note: Copied from MUFFIN by WIMM 1.31

 BS>> I did write a STDIO communication module, and it seems 
 BS>> to work.. The problem is that the WFC screen is getting 
 BS>> annoying stdin, so the user got the waiting-for-caller 
 BS>> screen onto everytime..

 BJ> Good....

So it didn't use it for everything.

 BS>> But nevermind the telnet thing _seems_ to workout 
 BS>> correctly, except for the filetransfer, which I haven't solved yet...

 BJ> Ok....

Filetransfers do work too.

 BS>> But my thought was that the STDIO module would be 
 BS>> pretty helpfull in that way, then we're going to get 
 BS>> the POTS working..

 BJ> Yes, I would think so...

The modem module works too, the problem is just the filetransfer doesn't
work, and I've not tested it with a frontend mailer.

 BS>> I need to know a thing, is binkley taking it's hand off 
 BS>> the serial line, after spawning the BBS?

 BJ> On a Unix based system (and on OS/2 based systems), I believe the
 BJ> binkley / max handoff is an open file (com) handle.  Because of
 BJ> that, you don't use the BBS exit stuff and instead have to use
 BJ> Binkley's spawn or one other methoid. 

I think it might work with BBS exit.

Bo

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