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echo: aust_c_here
to: Roy McNeill
from: david nugent
date: 1994-06-10 00:02:24
subject: C PROGRAMMING THE RS-232C

> If you're not (like most of us!), look up one of the shareware
 > Fossil comms drivers, like BNU or X00. Loaded as a TSR, a fossil
 > (yeah, I know, stupid name, I guess it was inherited from Unix)

Nope. It means "Fido Opus SEAdog Standard Interface Layer",
nothing UNIXish about it at all. It was intended to be a portability API
for MSDOS based applications; specifically bulletin board and mailer
software.


david

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