-=> Rick Christian wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 RC> I ran FD during the days I had my stuff on modem, specifically because
 RC> I disliked (and still do) bink. Unfortunately on the NATIVE Linux side
 RC> there seems to be little elese available.  There were reasons as to why
 RC> FD made sense
 RC>  to me at the time. I even added in Terminate as a point system for
 RC> some things. Although my main point was just my old FD setup made into
 RC> a point, when
 RC>  I moved all mystuff into my office where I had the phone lines to
 RC> spare.

Bink worked for me, and when I had my point running GIGO (the point was spun
off the original BBS), Bink's bidirectional transfer protocol saved a lot of
time, with a lot of mail travelling in both directions, especially in the
earlier days, when I was running 2400 bps.  Was interesting seeing bot RxD and
Txd lights on continuously. 

 RC> So the possabiity of a NATIVE LINUX FD... is like nirvana! FD made
 RC> sense to me where as bink doesn't and still doesn't. I think there is
 RC> also a Linux version of the tosser I used at that time too. Right now
 RC> the only piece of the puzzle that is missing is FD.

 RC> I had FD, BGFAX, GIGO all running. I actully tested BGFA and GIGO.

I was a big fan of GIGO at the time. 

 RC> I'd love to find a Linux path for GIGO, the various UseNet/EMAIL to
 RC> Fido gating
 RC>  systems all seem to be DOA regardless of OS. I may still scrape all
 RC> the pieces
 RC>  together and mix up a VM with DOSBox etc. to try this out for a
 RC> project, but I've got other things on the list right now.

Yeah, all are dead, as are the ham packet radio to FTN gating systems that were
around in the 90s.  Sadly, GIGO is abandonware.  Someone would have to
rewrite a clone from the ground up. 


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