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From: thelake!steve@stag.UUCP (Steve Yelvington)


There was a note on Fidonet a couple of weeks ago from Peter Glasmacher,
who said he was porting Binkley (a Fidonet mailer program) to the ST using
Turbo C. Part of the process involves installing something called FOSSIL,
which stands for Fido-Opus System Standard Interface Level (or something
like that). On a PC, FOSSIL compensates for the deficiencies and variations
of MS-DOS, provides interrupt-driven communications services, and
generally creates a level playing field so the same software can run on a
wide variety of Intel-based computers, including such divergent machines
as the DEC Rainbow and the Z100. (I'm not sure what, if any, real benefit
there is to having FOSSIL compatibility on an Atari, but he's doing it.)

At any rate, he said he's installing the FOSSIL routines on Trap #12, and
asked if any other software is known to be using that hook. It seems to me
that Trap #12 was mentioned here not too long ago. If there is any
potential conflict in using Trap #12, please send me a note so that I can
forward it to him.

His BBS can be contacted in the United States at 408-985-1538, Fidonet
node 1:143/9.



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