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  • Re: SBBS/W32 Kermit

    From Nancy Backus@1:323/120 to Stephen Hurd on Saturday, November 27, 2004 22:45:10
    Quoting Stephen Hurd to Nancy Backus on 11-23-04 11:51 <=-

    Re: Re: SBBS/W32 Kermit SABOT
    By: Nancy Backus to Stephen Hurd on Mon Nov 22 2004 23:35:03

    In my case, it wasn't what I wanted so much as what I needed. I was
    very thankful to find that 7-bit paranoid Kermit available when it was,
    so that I was* able to upload my message reply packets, and not have to enter messages online. Now that hubby has replaced TCPPort in our
    set-up with his TelNetPort, things work a lot better, and I can now use Zmodem for my telnet uploads as well, and still entirely work in DOS. :)

    Out of curiosity, was FTP or HTTP not an option?

    Even now, I do almost no web. I had barely learned about telnet (which,
    if set up for one well enough, works essentially as a variant of dial-up
    as far as accessing the bbs is concerned), and was, and still am, doing
    it all solely in DOS. All this computer stuff is akin to magic as far
    as I'm concerned... I may be a sorcerer's apprentice, and may sound as
    though I understand what I'm doing once I've done it enough, but that's
    about it... The wizard keeps it all running... and knows better than to
    try to overload me with too many new "magic spells" at once... <G>

    So, to answer the question... Maybe FTP or HTTP could have been an
    option, but, as far as I was concerned, not really.

    Also, my main concern was to continue getting message packets from the
    offline mail doors on the BBS, and to reply via the reply packets for
    the same, having read/replied offline. Would that have been do-able via
    FTP and HTTP, especially still using my Bluewave Reader?

    ttyl neb

    ... Unknown Error on Unknown Device for Unexplainable Reason.

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  • From Stephen Hurd@1:140/17 to Nancy Backus on Sunday, November 28, 2004 00:22:05
    Re: Re: SBBS/W32 Kermit
    By: Nancy Backus to Stephen Hurd on Sat Nov 27 2004 22:45:10

    Also, my main concern was to continue getting message packets from the offline mail doors on the BBS, and to reply via the reply packets for
    the same, having read/replied offline. Would that have been do-able via
    FTP and HTTP, especially still using my Bluewave Reader?

    Synchronet supports QWK via FTP, but not HTTP (yet)
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  • From Nancy Backus@1:323/120 to Stephen Hurd on Monday, November 29, 2004 22:36:21
    Quoting Stephen Hurd to Nancy Backus on 11-28-04 00:22 <=-

    Re: Re: SBBS/W32 Kermit
    By: Nancy Backus to Stephen Hurd on Sat Nov 27 2004 22:45:10

    Also, my main concern was to continue getting message packets from the offline mail doors on the BBS, and to reply via the reply packets for
    the same, having read/replied offline. Would that have been do-able via
    FTP and HTTP, especially still using my Bluewave Reader?

    Synchronet supports QWK via FTP, but not HTTP (yet)

    Ah. Well, I've yet to do anything* FTP (and know nothing about it, nor
    do I really want at this point to learn anything new I don't need to
    know), and my only experience with HTTP is using it to find websites for
    the few times I've needed to do so. I have to admit that I only use the
    "magic spells" I need, and while I may sound like I understand them, I
    don't really know all that much about computers in general, even... I
    have a very knowledgeable resident wizard, though... :) I'm just a
    Sorcerer's Apprentice, at best... ;)

    ttyl neb

    ... 90% of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.

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