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  • D'Bridge (Free)DOS + BINKD

    From deon@3:633/509 to Nick Andre on Sun Nov 11 14:56:31 2018
    Hi Nick,

    I just downloaded D'Bridge to have a play. I know it can do BINKD in Windows environments - is it possible to have BINKD in DOS? FreeDOS has a network stack
    and it would be great it the BINKD component could run there.

    I have my 1995 DOS BBS resurrected, using RLFOSSIL, however, mail transfers are
    intermittent - probably because of send buffers, and the sender timing out before the mail is received in DOS. The performance of RLFOSSIL is almost like a 300 baud modem and I havent been able to tell either side that it is a slow link (so it doesnt timeout so quickly).

    If BINKD works with the network stack in FreeDOS, I'm thinking this would solve
    that problem for me :)

    ...deon


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  • From Nick Andre@1:229/426 to Deon on Sun Nov 11 02:07:43 2018
    On 11 Nov 18 14:56:31, Deon said the following to Nick Andre:

    I just downloaded D'Bridge to have a play. I know it can do BINKD in Windows environments - is it possible to have BINKD in DOS? FreeDOS has a network stack
    and it would be great it the BINKD component could run there.

    I don't think its impossible, but its impossible for me to offer tech-support for such a scenario. You would be on your own and I am not liable for any problems, lost mail, system crash, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria for attempting any of this.

    The problem here is that it could take some tap-dancing to make things work.

    D'Bridge uses every trick in the book to even run on MS-DOS; and the memory usage is the concern here - It will depend on how much is left in the base 640k after the network stack is used. When D'Bridge swaps out to call BinkD, there is also a resident TSR which remains when the shell-code runs.

    Nick

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