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Article #290Re: fidonet access
From: Leonard Erickson
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 12:10
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 12:10
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tabitha@vms.huji.ac.il writes: >My desire is opposite to so many of you. I'd like to access some >Fidonet BBSes from the Internet, or from Bitnet. Is this possible. >Are there such addresses. Not so much for more conferences. There >are more than enough on USENET. For some reason, however, many >good shareware files don't make it to SIMTEL or CICA. For example, >Wyndfields for Windows, which I would like to test. >Can anybody help? Sorry, but Fido & those networks can only exchange *mail*. Fidonet BBSes aren't set up to allow "remote login". They can allow the Equivalent of FTP, but only from another Fido site, or a user with a terminal program that "looks like" another Fido system. -- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com CIS: [70465,203] 70465.203@compuserve.com FIDO: 1:105/51 Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org (The CIS & Fido addresses are preferred)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ogicse!qiclab!leonard From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc Subject: Re: fidonet access Message-ID: <1992Aug20.121016.10236@qiclab.scn.rain.com> Date: 20 Aug 92 12:10:16 GMT Article-I.D.: qiclab.1992Aug20.121016.10236 References: <1992Aug19.160522.475@vms.huji.ac.il> Reply-To: 70465.203@compuserve.com Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon. Lines: 22