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Re: Fossil driver (BNU)

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From: Mike Guidry
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 1995 12:47
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In article <5rJtHM0UxmB@site33.ping.at> rseoeg@site33.ping.at (Moss-Jusefowytsch OEG) writes:
>Date: 05 Aug 1995 13:24:00 +0100
>From: rseoeg@site33.ping.at (Moss-Jusefowytsch OEG)
>Subject: Fossil driver (BNU)

>Does anyone know what a fossil driver is?  I'm using some European  
>communications programs, and one of them (a bulletin board) requires a  
>fossil driver.  There appear to be two variants: x00.sys and bnu.com.  Is  
>there a better usenet board to ask this question?

Fossils are generally used with bbs programs, so you might try looking at the 
alt.bbs programs.  I have used both of those on my bbs and they work fine.
There is a special version of x00 for os/2. 
For me,  x00 worked better with dos, bnu with win95, but others have reported 
the opposite.  
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Subject: Re: Fossil driver (BNU)
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 12:47:49 UNDEFINED
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