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Re: BBS Select-type program wanted

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From: Bob McCown
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1993 06:12
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In article <1992Dec31.181728.25429@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> rnovak@nyx.cs.du.edu (Robert Novak) writes:
>rmccown@world.std.com (Bob McCown) writes:
>
>>I'm looking for a program a'la BBS SELECT to allow my users to choose
>>between 2 different BBS's.  Ive tried BBSMENU from garbo, but it wont do
>>exactly what I want.  Any other ideas?
>
>There are features that will allow this in two popular front-end mailer
>packages, FrontDoor (FD202.*) and BinkleyTerm (various archives
>available). Frontdoor calls it external mail (I think), and allows a
>character input to select batch files. I don't know about BinkleyTerm, but
>it might also have similar functions with similar ease. 
>
I already run Frontdoor, and I dont believe that this is available, unless
Ive missed something in the DOCs, in which case I need help with the
setup.  All that comes up is the ever popular 'press esc to enter xxx'
prompt, no banner page, nada.
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