* Originally in FIDONEWS
* Crossposted in FDECHO

Monday July 02 2018 21:35, Bj÷rn Felten wrote to Bj÷rn Felten:

In comes this 17yo Swedish kid with a Turbo Pascal program that
could distinguish between mailer calls and BBS-callers (<press Esc

Twice>>> ). He called it Frontdoor.

In case someone should be interested, here's the very first version of FrontDoor from 1986-10-12. It has quite some historical value IMHO.

http://eljaco.se/FILES/BBS/FD100.ZIP

Hmm...

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p:\fd100>fd /?

+ FrontDoor v1.0 - October 12th, 1986
From Future Hacker Central FIDO 501/4609, Sweden
Copyright (c) 1986 by Joaquim Homrighausen & Peter Stewart, all rights reserved

Usage: FD/<port_number>
FD/1 or FD/2

Switches: /I - install defaults (use as only parameter)
/? - display this text
/N - don't initialize modem
/K - use constant speed against modem
/L - log transactions in file FD.LOG
/Q - quiet, don't beep at connect
/B<n> - initialize the COM port to this baudrate
/B3 /B1 /B2 (300,1200,2400)
/X<n> - exclude support of this baudrate
/X3 /X1 /X2 /X7 (300,1200,2400,splitspeed)
/S<nn> - connect code for splitspeed (CCITT V.23)
/S11 /S7 (8 = default)

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12:00:41 | FrontDoor v1.0 by Joaquim Homrighausen & Peter Stewart |
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| - Disk read error. PC=636A | |
| - Internal error, exiting... | |
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Bummer!

'Tommi

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