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    From deon@77:3/101.1 to All on Sun Jul 21 15:46:38 2019
    Does anybody use ifcico?

    (I want it to send stuff to a DOS bbs I'm playing with - and I have a DOS downlink.)

    I'm planning on retiring MBSE, so I need a replacement, and was looking at ifcico.

    I'm trying to figure out how it knows to use IP for dialout and not a modem.
    It also coredumps a lot (which occurs when a config item is out of place) -
    and I'm suspecting it doesnt like something in the nodelist.

    I can get it to call out using -a on a interactive command line, but I was hoping it would call out automatically for anything in outbound that is crash
    - that's what I'm trying to test.

    ...deon

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  • From Netsurge@77:1/100 to deon on Sun Jul 21 22:50:38 2019
    Does anybody use ifcico?

    I tried for a while, but I find it very unstable. Are you trying to use it
    for you can get fido over ip? Like the old frontdoor protocol?

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  • From deon@77:3/101.1 to Netsurge on Mon Jul 22 16:29:46 2019
    On 21 Jul 2019, Netsurge said the following...
    I tried for a while, but I find it very unstable. Are you trying to use
    it for you can get fido over ip? Like the old frontdoor protocol?

    Yes, I have a DOS BBS that I'm playing with (for nostalgic reasons), and I
    also have a downlink that uses FrontDoor.

    I also came across qico - and while they both seem to poll OK (havent tried a transfer yet), I cannot get them to poll out automatically. I can get around that with a script and calling them with their respective "inet" options, but
    I was hoping to avoid that.

    ifcico seems to coredump whenever you enable the options (that determine when it can call out) - so I might have to find the source and see if I can figure it out.

    ...deon

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  • From Netsurge@77:1/100 to deon on Mon Jul 22 13:09:12 2019
    I also came across qico - and while they both seem to poll OK (havent tried a transfer yet), I cannot get them to poll out automatically. I
    can get around that with a script and calling them with their respective "inet" options, but I was hoping to avoid that.

    Does it user frontdoor or binkley style outbounds? Depending on which one,
    you can place a specific named file in the outbound to force it to poll or
    call out to a specific node.

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  • From deon@77:3/101.1 to Netsurge on Tue Jul 23 10:03:50 2019
    On 22 Jul 2019, Netsurge said the following...
    Does it user frontdoor or binkley style outbounds? Depending on which
    one, you can place a specific named file in the outbound to force it to poll or call out to a specific node.

    I think they are both BSO.

    While I found the source to qico and compiled it successfully, it is random that it works on an inbound connect. (Too unreliable for me.)

    I've worked out that ifcico seems to work everytime (receiving an inbound call), but I just need to figure out why it coredumps when you enable the "rules" for it to call outbound. (The default is hold, so anything in BSO doesnt go out - and if I tell it to poll, it doesnt seem to anyway - might be doing that wrong as well...)

    I've come to the conclusion that Telnet/EMSI and TCP/EMSI is really
    problematic (did it ever work in the day over IP?), especially when the other end is NetSerial. (Could be how the other end has configured netserial too I guess.)

    ...deon

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  • From Netsurge@77:1/100 to deon on Mon Jul 22 20:15:50 2019
    I've come to the conclusion that Telnet/EMSI and TCP/EMSI is really problematic (did it ever work in the day over IP?), especially when the other end is NetSerial. (Could be how the other end has configured netserial too I guess.)

    I came to the x86 bbs game late as I ran an Amiga BBS for years. I was able
    to do EMSI over IP on the Amiga grabbing my echomail from someone who ran
    EMSI over IP on DOS.

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