bigd@dorsai (David Shapiro) (06/10/91)
Can someone please send the latest version of the X00 fossil driver to me at bigd@dorsai.com, UUencoded? Thanks. Also, can someone summarize the reasons that a fossil driver would be needed? 8888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888 8 David Shapiro 8 The Gooey (GUI) BBS 8 8 bigd@dorsai.com 8 212-876-5885 9600 CSP 8 8 212-876-5885 9600 CSP (data) 8 Home of GUI-Net (tm) 8 8 R/O Routable at ->GOOEY on: 8 Home of the GUI BBS list 8 8 RIME (RelayNet), Intelec, MIDILink, GUI-Net 8 First NYC BBS with CSP 8 8 InterZone!, V-Net, TR'OL Works, NYNet, TRI-Net8 Since 12/90 8 8888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888
w8sdz@rigel.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen) (06/11/91)
bigd@dorsai (David Shapiro) writes: >Can someone please send the latest version of the X00 fossil driver to me at >bigd@dorsai.com, UUencoded? Thanks. It's available from WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL [192.88.110.20] Directory PD1:<MSDOS.FOSSIL> Filename Type Length Date Description ============================================== X00V124.ZIP B 114161 910318 Interrupt-driven FOSSIL driver for BBS use It was obtained directly from the author's BBS. Keith -- Keith Petersen Maintainer of the MSDOS, MISC and CP/M archives at SIMTEL20 [192.88.110.20] Internet: w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.Army.Mil or w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu Uucp: uunet!umich!vela!w8sdz BITNET: w8sdz@OAKLAND
root@zswamp.uucp (Geoffrey Welsh) (06/12/91)
In a letter to All, David Shapiro (bigd@dorsai ) wrote: >Also, can someone summarize the reasons that a fossil driver >would be needed? (1) The IBM PC BIOS drivers for the serial port are woefully inadequate; (2) Wynn Wagner became frustrated with the Greenleaf communications library around the same time that Thom Henderson and Tom Jennings became frustrated with the comm libs they were using; (3) It's nice to be able to write software for "MS-DOS plus a FOSSIL", so that it'll work on such nonstandard hardware as a DEC Rainbow.. provided that someone can be bothered to write a FOSSIL for it; (4) Programs which communicate through a FOSSIL driver can actually share interrupts (programs which don't, as a rule, can't); (5) You can update your BBS software without messing up your perfectly reliable serial driver, and you can upgrade your serial driver without messing up your perfectly reliable BBS software; (It just occurred to me that I could think up reasons as fast as I can type them up, so I'd best quit before I become truly obsessed and throw away what little of my life I still own the rights to) -- Geoffrey Welsh - Operator, Izot's Swamp BBS (FidoNet 1:221/171) root@zswamp.uucp or ..uunet!watmath!xenitec!zswamp!root 602-66 Mooregate Crescent, Kitchener, ON, N2M 5E6 Canada (519)741-9553 "He who claims to know everything can't possibly know much" -me
pozar@kumr.lns.com (Tim Pozar) (06/14/91)
In article <203.2855A6B8@zswamp.uucp> root@zswamp.uucp (Geoffrey Welsh) writes: >In a letter to All, David Shapiro (bigd@dorsai ) wrote: > > >Also, can someone summarize the reasons that a fossil driver > >would be needed? > >(1) The IBM PC BIOS drivers for the serial port are woefully inadequate; Agreed! >(2) Wynn Wagner became frustrated with the Greenleaf communications library >around the same time that Thom Henderson and Tom Jennings became frustrated >with the comm libs they were using; Almost... Tom wrote the FidoBBS program. Tom also worked for a company called Phoniex software (those BIOS folks) where he was doing work on porting MS-DOS to a number of different machines. (Ever seen MS-DOS run on a multibus?) At the same time there was a number of clones coming out that had very different ideas of what the serial port should do (ie. Dec Rainbow). Several folks asked Tom to port Fido over to their machines. Tom developed a "Generic" communications driver. A couple of years later (and fortunatly the Rainbow left this planet) Henderson and others took Tom's generic comm stuff and developed the FOSSIL standard. (Basicly, it is an extension of the int14 IBM-PC comm hooks.) It has become the "default" standard at least in the FidoNet world. Tim -- pozar@lns.com Fido: 1:125/555 PaBell: 415-788-3904 USNail: KKSF-FM / 77 Maiden Lane / San Francisco CA 94108