Good day all...

Previously I had two issues, one with session level passwords and the ability of changing them. I resolved that issue using the -p swtich when starting rexcfg. Second was the ability of IRex reading the FD's compiled nodelist. I "thought" I found the problem but...

Originally I registered the 50 user non-server version. Not RTFM at first, I was rather perplexed why it wouldn't read it then I finally did and saw only the 1000 user version would. So, I broke down and purchased that version. Installed the new key and serial #... said it updated it to the 1000 user version, toggled the Send to Unknown Users to yes, saved it and it still won't read it. I open rexcfg again and see that sectioned toggled back to NO. This is really pissin me off to no end. Please, any help. Seems Charles loves collecting my $ but getting answers aren't so forthcoming.

Any help is appreciated....

Thanks


Bill

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Bill McGarrity wrote to All:

Good day all...

Previously I had two issues, one with session level passwords and the ability of changing them. I resolved that issue using the -p swtich
when starting rexcfg. Second was the ability of IRex reading the
FD's compiled nodelist. I "thought" I found the problem but...

Originally I registered the 50 user non-server version. Not RTFM at first, I was rather perplexed why it wouldn't read it then I finally
did and saw only the 1000 user version would. So, I broke down and purchased that version. Installed the new key and serial #... said it updated it to the 1000 user version, toggled the Send to Unknown
Users to yes, saved it and it still won't read it. I open rexcfg
again and see that sectioned toggled back to NO. This is really
pissin me off to no end. Please, any help. Seems Charles loves
collecting my $ but getting answers aren't so forthcoming.

Any help is appreciated....

Hate to say it, but I told you so. Irex is abandoned software and you
won't get any help from the author. It's too bad that you paid for the
upgrade, but that's life. Personally, I think its shameful that the
software is abandoned and the author still collects registration money for
it. the best you can do is live with what you have or move on...D'Bridge
is a very good alternative and does more than Irex in the long run.

D'Bridge has its quirks too, but at least there is a live author who deals
with these problems in his support echo. IMO, you can't go wrong with it
and if you're running a BBS, that's also included in the package.


R\%/itt


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Roy Witt wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-

Bill McGarrity wrote to All:

Good day all...

Previously I had two issues, one with session level passwords and the ability of changing them. I resolved that issue using the -p swtich
when starting rexcfg. Second was the ability of IRex reading the
FD's compiled nodelist. I "thought" I found the problem but...

Originally I registered the 50 user non-server version. Not RTFM at first, I was rather perplexed why it wouldn't read it then I finally
did and saw only the 1000 user version would. So, I broke down and purchased that version. Installed the new key and serial #... said it updated it to the 1000 user version, toggled the Send to Unknown
Users to yes, saved it and it still won't read it. I open rexcfg
again and see that sectioned toggled back to NO. This is really
pissin me off to no end. Please, any help. Seems Charles loves
collecting my $ but getting answers aren't so forthcoming.

Any help is appreciated....

Hate to say it, but I told you so. Irex is abandoned software and you won't get any help from the author. It's too bad that you paid for the upgrade, but that's life. Personally, I think its shameful that the software is abandoned and the author still collects registration money
for it. the best you can do is live with what you have or move on...D'Bridge is a very good alternative and does more than Irex in the long run.

D'Bridge has its quirks too, but at least there is a live author who
deals with these problems in his support echo. IMO, you can't go wrong with it and if you're running a BBS, that's also included in the
package.

Right now I'm thinking about using FD and NetSerial. Mark offered to point me in the right direction. I already have FD, just need to get the other from PCMicro.

Hey, live and learn.. lol..

Be well..


Bill

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Roy Witt wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-

Bill McGarrity wrote to All:

Good day all...

Previously I had two issues, one with session level passwords and

the

ability of changing them. I resolved that issue using the -p swtich BM>BM> when starting rexcfg. Second was the ability of IRex reading the
FD's compiled nodelist. I "thought" I found the problem but...

Originally I registered the 50 user non-server version. Not RTFM at BM>BM> first, I was rather perplexed why it wouldn't read it then I finally BM>BM> did and saw only the 1000 user version would. So, I broke down and BM>BM> purchased that version. Installed the new key and serial #... said

it

updated it to the 1000 user version, toggled the Send to Unknown
Users to yes, saved it and it still won't read it. I open rexcfg
again and see that sectioned toggled back to NO. This is really
pissin me off to no end. Please, any help. Seems Charles loves
collecting my $ but getting answers aren't so forthcoming.

Any help is appreciated....

Hate to say it, but I told you so. Irex is abandoned software and

you

won't get any help from the author. It's too bad that you paid for

the

upgrade, but that's life. Personally, I think its shameful that the BM>RW> software is abandoned and the author still collects registration

money

for it. the best you can do is live with what you have or move
on...D'Bridge is a very good alternative and does more than Irex in

the

long run.

D'Bridge has its quirks too, but at least there is a live author who BM>RW> deals with these problems in his support echo. IMO, you can't go

wrong

with it and if you're running a BBS, that's also included in the
package.

Right now I'm thinking about using FD and NetSerial. Mark offered to
point me
in the right direction. I already have FD, just need to get the other
from
PCMicro.

FD is also abandonware, so beware. Don't know about NetSerial.

Hey, live and learn.. lol..

And youth is wasted on the young, etc.

Be well..

If only I could. (-:


Regards,

Roger

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On Mon, 27 May 2013, Roger Nelson wrote to Bill McGarrity:

Right now I'm thinking about using FD and NetSerial. Mark offered to
point me in the right direction. I already have FD, just need to
get the other from PCMicro.

FD is also abandonware, so beware.

while FD may be abandonware, it does work properly and has never had the weird problems that other programs have exhibited...

Don't know about NetSerial.

mike still supports his software...

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On Mon, 27 May 2013, Roger Nelson wrote to Bill McGarrity:

Right now I'm thinking about using FD and NetSerial. Mark offered to ml>BM> point me in the right direction. I already have FD, just need to
get the other from PCMicro.

FD is also abandonware, so beware.

while FD may be abandonware, it does work properly and has never had the weird problems that other programs have exhibited...

Maybe for you it does/did, but it doesn't do Distinctive Ring, AKA RingMaster.
When I asked for help in the FD echo, you cold hear crickets chirp. D'Bridge did/does it flawlessly.

Don't know about NetSerial.

mike still supports his software...

I don't know Mike, which also means I don't know who the author of NetSerial is.


Roger

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Roger Nelson wrote to mark lewis:

On Mon, 27 May 2013, Roger Nelson wrote to Bill McGarrity:

Right now I'm thinking about using FD and NetSerial. Mark offered
to point me in the right direction. I already have FD, just need
to get the other from PCMicro.

FD is also abandonware, so beware.

while FD may be abandonware, it does work properly and has never had
the weird problems that other programs have exhibited...

It had it's own quirks that made it obsolete anyway.

Maybe for you it does/did, but it doesn't do Distinctive Ring, AKA RingMaster. When I asked for help in the FD echo, you cold hear
crickets chirp. D'Bridge did/does it flawlessly.

Yeup.

Don't know about NetSerial.

mike still supports his software...

I don't know Mike, which also means I don't know who the author of NetSerial is.

Why, it's Mikey, of course.


R\%/itt


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--- D'Bridge 3.92
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On Wed May-29-2013 09:40, Roy Witt (1:387/22) wrote to Roger Nelson:

Roger Nelson wrote to mark lewis:

On Mon, 27 May 2013, Roger Nelson wrote to Bill McGarrity:

Right now I'm thinking about using FD and NetSerial. Mark offered
to point me in the right direction. I already have FD, just need
to get the other from PCMicro.

FD is also abandonware, so beware.

while FD may be abandonware, it does work properly and has never had
the weird problems that other programs have exhibited...

It had it's own quirks that made it obsolete anyway.

It was obsolete 30 minutes after I tried it. If a mailer can't handle Distinctive Ring, and for me at that period of time it was mandatory, then it is useless. I even got on the case (nicely) of one of the guys who was updating AdeptXBBS, suggesting that if they couldn't get DR to work, they should pull that section from the manual. I was accused of whining, of course.
(-: So, I deep-sixed Adept. It was a good idea at the time, but came with a nightmare called GateKeeper. Another thing about it was I couldn't send to Bill Kirby's The Twin Towers BBS in Austin, but he could send to me and he and I spent many hours on the phone trying to figure that out. I even offered to pay my portion of his LD bill.

Maybe for you it does/did, but it doesn't do Distinctive Ring, AKA RingMaster. When I asked for help in the FD echo, you cold hear
crickets chirp. D'Bridge did/does it flawlessly.

Yeup.

Don't know about NetSerial.

mike still supports his software...

I don't know Mike, which also means I don't know who the author of NetSerial is.

Why, it's Mikey, of course.

LOL!


Regards,

Roger
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Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:

[.FD.]

It had it's own quirks that made it obsolete anyway.

It was obsolete 30 minutes after I tried it.

If it wasn't for perseverence, it would have been chucked out with the
garbage when I first got a copy of it. Eventually, I got it to work and
wrote a FD4DUMMIES tutoral, providing sample batch files and a list of
software tools needed to make it work. Jack Yates (c1997) asked me for a
copy of that tutoral and that was the only way he got FD working.

If a mailer can't handle Distinctive Ring, and for me at that
period of time it was mandatory, then it is useless.

Ring distinction or the lack of wasn't my problem with FD...getting it to
work at all was the biggest problem.

I even got on the case (nicely) of one of the guys who was updating AdeptXBBS, suggesting that if they couldn't get DR to work, they
should pull that section from the manual. I was accused of whining,
of course. (-:

8^) I got the same treatment from my uplink (he was a big whiner) when I
wasn't getting mail from his system, 1:202/900. I finally convinced him
that it was his misconfiguration that caused the problem and he finally admitted that he was going through a divorce and had little time to
spend tweaking his BBS and that the software upgrade he made to his system wasn't what it was supposed to be. He finally went back to the previous software version and that cured the problem. Meanwhile, Brenda was re-configuring the net hubs and John's 900 hub was the first to go and
I got moved to 202/5's net hub, which was probably the best hub I've ever
had the pleasure of being linked to.

So, I deep-sixed Adept. It was a good idea at the time, but came
with a nightmare called GateKeeper. Another thing about it was I
couldn't send to Bill Kirby's The Twin Towers BBS in Austin, but he
could send to me and he and I spent many hours on the phone trying to figure that out. I even offered to pay my portion of his LD bill.

Before I became a node, I used to run a BBS using Wildcat. Had I known at
the time that I would eventually be a Fidonet sysop, I wouldn't have
chosen Wildcat. I used a net202 BBS to get my Fido fix and it was using
Wildcat BBS...had I known how hard it was to implement FD with Wildcat, I
would have chosen a different BBS package.


R\%/itt


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On 05-29-13, mark lewis said the following...

while FD may be abandonware, it does work properly and has never had the weird problems that other programs have exhibited...

I have FD and netserial both working in XP on a P3 cpu box, but it seems to have issues running on a P4 cpu box in XP. Connections with human callers is good, but i've never tested it with processing network mail delivered by other frontend mailers that way. Is that even possible? and if so i'd like to do
some testing with it.

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On Wed, 29 May 2013, Roger Nelson wrote to mark lewis:

FD is also abandonware, so beware.

while FD may be abandonware, it does work properly and has never had the weird problems that other programs have exhibited...

Maybe for you it does/did, but it doesn't do Distinctive Ring, AKA RingMaster. When I asked for help in the FD echo, you cold hear
crickets chirp. D'Bridge did/does it flawlessly.

sure it does... i don't know how or when but it does... i've never needed or used such services, though...

you don't say what version of FD you had problems with either :?

Don't know about NetSerial.

mike still supports his software...

I don't know Mike, which also means I don't know who the author of NetSerial is.

mike ehlert from PCMicro... he has netserial, netfossil and is also the owner of doorway ;)

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On Thu, 30 May 2013, Leslie Given wrote to mark lewis:

On 05-29-13, mark lewis said the following...

while FD may be abandonware, it does work properly and has never had the weird problems that other programs have exhibited...

I have FD and netserial both working in XP on a P3 cpu box, but it
seems to have issues running on a P4 cpu box in XP. Connections
with human callers is good, but i've never tested it with
processing network mail delivered by other frontend mailers that
way. Is that even possible? and if so i'd like to do some testing
with it.

you can poll my main system via telnet or vmodem... we should move discussions about FD over to FDECHO as well ;)

)\/(ark

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On 05-29-13, mark lewis said the following...

you can poll my main system via telnet or vmodem... we should move discussions about FD over to FDECHO as well ;)

Understood, the last time i looked the FDECHO was empty and need some posting in there. I should also locate my 2.32to2.33 update, in the mean time.
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