> 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. 
BB> Frontdoor's request to speak to BNU and the portis denied 
BB> by the operating system. Every time.

Are they both 16 or 32-bits or are they mismatched?

> 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.

BB>      Oh,FD and FM still work fine. But they can't use the 
BB> modem so 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 
BB> the telephone line. In fact it's actually running Dos 6.2. 
BB> However I don't think Dos 6.2 will run on the new hardware. 
BB> If it does - problem solved.

DOS 6.2 is what I run (I have 3 operating systems here running in a boot 
manager-type setup).  I feel confident that it _will_ run.  If it 
doesn't, please tell me.  BTW, what is the processor on your system?

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