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

    by that I meant access to the modem. BNU accesses it. Frontdoor's
request to speak to BNU and the portis denied by the operating 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?

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

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

Best wishes,
Bill.

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