Re: [DMetal/FV support??

[butch@netcom.com (G.Sanchez)]

Lawrence Faust (lfaust@delphi.com) wrote:
: Ho, all---
: 	
: 	OK, I've looked at Warp 6. Now, I'm interested in Metal/FV.
:  did an install, got it up in local mode.
: Will NOT send data to modem upon connect.

If you set it up in local mode, then don't expect it to connect with 
another modem since as far as its concern there it is not supposed to 
take calls. Your modem may answer the incoming call but metal will just 
ignore it. You should have something like this in your metal config file:

MODEM=<GENERIC.MODEM>
MODEMQUITYPE=<USR>
MODEMPORT=<GS.PORT>

the modemtype=<usr> will vary depending on your modem, its not nessesary 
thoug.

: 	My hardware: IIgs w/4meg. RAM & 9mHz Zip, Intrec Hardware Handshaking
:  modem.

You need a ProTERM hardware hanskaking cable, that works the best!!
Wait a minute Intrec is ProTERM duh :) Not thinking too hard this mornig 
:) Your cable should be allright. No problems there.


: Leaving messages on GEnie (the A2 area's usually heavy on support)
: has not helped. I've been told the the Supra's the problem (by a user), so I

Wait a minute, supra is NOT the problem, I think that what is happening 
is that you do not have the proper metal.config for a supra modem. There 
is one and it works great (from what I have been told by other Supra 
metal BBS sysops). If you are interested I will dig it up and post it for 
you. My conclusions, you need the metal.config for a supra and everything 
should work, you also need the modem result codes which will be in the 
config file, this will allow metal to return the actual baud rate and all 
that info. Again, I will dig it up for you and post it here.

: 	
: 	If I can get the thing up & running, I'd also like to apply for a
: site ID (for FutureNet) and also find out how to get FidoNet/Usenet feeds for
: Metal.
: 	
 Oh boy, just BUG the living you know what out of Tony Diaz. I know of 
users who have been waiting for over one year just to get a site id. What 
does not help is that most of those users do not send all the nessesary 
information and Tony does NOT tell them what is missing either. So if you 
want a Futurenet ID, then I suggest you keep sending email to him untill 
you get a reply and send the PROPER information and things will be smooth 
and not take a long time. No I am not saying that Tony is the slow one, 
just that if you do not send all that is required you will be waiting a 
long time for an ID. Here is what you need to send him

BBS Name
BBS Location
BBS Phone number
Site you would like to link with

I beilave thats it, with metal, you can link to ANY site on the network, 
no need to link with those so called hubs like many other bbs networks.


Hope this helps:)

Gabe

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