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Skriven 2004-12-12 14:10:00 av MICHEL SAMSON (1:10/345)
     Kommentar till en text av MARK LEWIS
Ärende: LSPPPDlr 2003
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Hi Mark,

     About "LSPPPDlr 2003" of December 11:

MS> ...`{Commo} v7.7' and `Telix v3.51' do support ~INT-14~/~FOSSIL~...
ML> Interesting...  Very interesting...

     `{Commo}' is handy for sure.  Its full range of interfaces tells us
how much quality was put in it, i couldn't think of anything else for my
external ~PPP~ dialer once i discovered it and the fact that it works as
the ~TelNet~ client too (instead of having to use two separate pieces of
SoftWare) only confirms that it wasn't counter-productive to investigate
a while before i became more involved with external dialers, eventually.

                                  8^)

MS> ...an image is worth a thousand words...  ...command-line samples:
MS> RLFossil.EXE 2 1 "Commo.EXE /:INT-14 /{*1,,3,V,}"
ML> What versions of {COMMO}, Telix and RLFossil are those, please?

     As i mentioned above, `{Commo}' is version v7.7 (the last one there
was before its source-code and author both disapeared).  As for `Telix',
i'm refering to version 3.51 but you tell me if it's the last release...

                                  ;^)

MS> I must confess that the matter of local connection speed (~DTE~,
MS> isn't it?) sure sounds somewhat "elusive" since i get rate peaks
MS> around 4K cps (both on `{Commo}' and `Telix') but there's no
MS> significant drop when i set `Telix' for a 9K6 bps connection...  if
MS> i use `MS-kermit' with `RLFossil' instead then my connect speed
MS> shows as "unknown"...  In any case, the Serial-Port `{Commo}' or
MS> `Telix' would use is defined right on `RLFossil's Command-Line!...
ML> ...the equipment is not hampered by hardware (aka uart) speed...
ML> ...ms-kermit either doesn't have a matching connect speed or doesn't
ML> recognise what it may be being told is the connection speed...

     I have found that the behavior of ~BIOS INT-14~/~FOSSIL~ compatible
terminal emulators varied significantly when i investigated them but the
"unknown" result returned by `MS-Kermit' was said to make perfect sense,
according to its maintainers at the Columbia university.  From memory, i
believe their reasoning was it's the ~FOSSIL~ driver's responsability to
manage it, usually (it sounds about true of `X00', `ADF' and the suite).

ML> My bbs does that with telix all the time...  When a user logs off,
ML> my system fires up telix...  ...and runs a script to fetch the
ML> session's stats from the modem...

     BBSes depend on a fully compliant level 5 ~FOSSIL~ driver which can
support application swapping even when the Serial-Ports are still "Hot",
i wish `RLFossil' were compliant enough to support the use of a `ZMoDem'
protocol driver run from `MS-Kermit's terminal interface, or vice-versa!

                                  8,-(

     Right now, i can "share" connections (alternately) using `LSPPPDlr'
with `MS-Kermit' run as a protocol-driver - when used via `COM/IP' - but
not with `RLFossil' (the later reboots my PC instead)!...  I wonder what
feedback i'd get from a person like Sylvain Lauzon (he was knowledgeable
enough about `RLFossil' to get me a 8088 built which didn't exist on the
Net), euh...  i have to wonder if he wouldn't happen to know where to go
for the source-code or, maybe, even a quick fix.  `TelNet Port' suffered
from the same problem when i checked, i may be stuck with this for ever!

                                  %-o

ML> ...if one is handy with debug or other capable software, one can
ML> redefine the BIOS table of serial and parallel port addresses...

     Back in days when i played with `Z-80' code, a concept like double-
Byte numbers with their most significant Byte last made sense but that's
all history now, i depend on the talent of others for my modest hobby...

                                  ;-)

MS> ...drop me a note when you're ready to try `MS-Kermit' as an `OS/2'
MS> external file-transfer protocol-driver on a `Maximus' BBS!
ML> ...on a RemoteAccess BBS since i don't run Maximus "out front"...

     Good!  8-)  Anyway, i must meditate on the meaning of the riddle...

                                    Salutations,  ;-)

                                    Michel Samson
                                    a/s Bicephale
                                    http://public.sogetel.net/bicephale/


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