Hi Bill.

07-Oct-03 10:40:00, Bill Birrell wrote to Neil Heller


  >> By FidoNet mailer do you mean the part which carries out the
  >> communication or the part that works with the mail itself?

 BB> by that I meant access to the modem. BNU accesses it. Frontdoor's
 BB> request to speak to BNU and the portis denied by the operating
 BB> system. Every time

  >> When Windows went from 16 to 32-bits, the (external) communication
  >> paradigm changed.  If the difficulty you're having involves
  >> connecting to a BBS then it's this paradigm shift that's the
  >> culprit.  If the difficulty involves viewing/replying/etc....
  >> well, can you explicitly describe where you're system is having
  >> difficulty?

 BB> Oh,FD and FM still work fine. But they can't use the modem so
 BB> they're useless until they can

 BB> Neil - you would'nt believe the botch that's running now to get
 BB> this message out. An old 25 Mhz Windows 3.1 system is cascaded
 BB> through the new machine's modem line in/phone out portss to the
 BB> telephone line. In fact it's actually running Dos 6.2. However I
 BB> don't think Dos 6.2 will run on the new hardware. If it does -
 BB> problem solved

it should do it uses the BIOS for pretty much everything. But dos 7 (comes
with win-95B etc) might be a better move if you want access use FAT-32
partitions from dos.`

 -=> Bye <=-

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