Hello All !

Wow I just found out what VFOS_IBM.COM does for BinkleyTerm !

And that Mark Kromm guy had absolutely no imagination whatsoever.

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Wow I just found out what VFOS_IBM.COM does for BinkleyTerm !

And it's?

Bo

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Hello Bo !

On 02-Feb'08 13:18, Bo Simonsen wrote to Minh Van Le:

Wow I just found out what VFOS_IBM.COM does for BinkleyTerm
!

And it's?

It won't display properly. eg.,

=========================================================================
BinkleyTerm Version 2.60-uSoft8.0(Unregistered) Press Alt-F10 For Help ?[H?[2J?[H?[2J =========================================================================

and when you're in the Outbound Window (Alt-Z) to inspect outbound mail packets, you can't see the scrolling lightbar which is annoying if you've got a
list of outbound mail.

You need VFOSSIL to display BinkleyTerm colours properly.

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Hi Bo,

Saturday February 02 2008 13:18, Bo Simonsen wrote to Minh Van Le:

And it's?

Adds color to Binkleys FullScreen.


Kevin
klement@gypsy-designs.com

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Replying to a message of Bo Simonsen to Minh Van Le:

Wow I just found out what VFOS_IBM.COM does for BinkleyTerm !

A FOSSIL driver.

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Replying to a message of Bo Simonsen to Minh Van Le:

Wow I just found out what VFOS_IBM.COM does for BinkleyTerm !

And it's?

A virtual FOSSIL driver. It allows Binkley (and other FIDO mailers) to run properly. IIRC, absent a FOSSIL driver, Binkley won't load.

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Re: Vfossil
By: Bob Ackley to Bo Simonsen on Sun Feb 03 2008 05:06 am

Replying to a message of Bo Simonsen to Minh Van Le:

Wow I just found out what VFOS_IBM.COM does for BinkleyTerm !

And it's?

A virtual FOSSIL driver. It allows Binkley (and other FIDO mailers) to run properly. IIRC, absent a FOSSIL driver, Binkley won't load.

It's actually a *video* FOSSIL driver. :)

Here's a link to the standard for it:


http://www.ftsc.org/docs/fsc-0021.001

g.
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Hi Bob,

Sunday February 03 2008 05:06, Bob Ackley wrote to Bo Simonsen:

A virtual FOSSIL driver. It allows Binkley (and other FIDO
mailers) to run properly. IIRC, absent a FOSSIL driver,
Binkley won't load.

Sortta... VFOS might just run Binkley as a stand alone FOSSIL. Might not, first you'll need a FOSSIL like X00 or BNU, then VFOS just then adds color to Binkley.

Kevin
klement@gypsy-designs.com

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Hi Kevin -- on Feb 24 2008 at 16:56, you wrote:

Sortta... VFOS might just run Binkley as a stand alone FOSSIL.
Might not, first you'll need a FOSSIL like X00 or BNU, then VFOS
just then adds color to Binkley.

Correct -- X00/BNU is essential, VFOS is nice. :-)


Cheers... Dallas

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Kevin Klement wrote to Bob Ackley <=-

Sortta... VFOS might just run Binkley as a stand alone FOSSIL. Might
not, first you'll need a FOSSIL like X00 or BNU, then VFOS just then
adds color to Binkley.

VFOS is the Video FOSSIL driver, which is only required for color
screens in Binkley. The communications with the modem requires a FOSSIL
driver (in DOS versions.) IIRC, the OS/2 and Win32 versions do not
require a FOSSIL, as they can use the OS serial port support.

Regards,

Andrew

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Hi Dallas,

Sunday February 24 2008 22:55, Dallas Hinton wrote to Kevin Klement:

Correct -- X00/BNU is essential, VFOS is nice. :-)

<big smile>

Nice hearing from ya Pal ... hope the world is treating you well!


Kevin
klement@gypsy-designs.com

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Hi Andrew,

Monday February 25 2008 05:43, Andrew Leary wrote to Kevin Klement:

VFOS is the Video FOSSIL driver, which is only required for
color screens in Binkley. The communications with the modem
requires a FOSSIL driver (in DOS versions.)

I knew that.

IIRC, the OS/2
and Win32 versions do not
require a FOSSIL, as they can use the OS serial port
support.

Didn't know that tho...

Kevin
klement@gypsy-designs.com

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Hi Kevin -- on Feb 26 2008 at 13:34, you wrote:

<big smile>

Nice hearing from ya Pal ... hope the world is treating you well!

Thanks, Kevin -- you too!


Cheers... Dallas

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