[nos-bbs] FBB forwarding questions

[Brian]

Michael;

On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 21:09 -0800, Michael E Fox (N6MEF) wrote:
> From the F6FBB web page for forward.sys

> N (number)
> Assigns the standard forward protocol (MBL/RLI) for the specified BBS.
> 
>   1 = FBB forwarding allowed
>   2 = FBB+BIN forwarding
>   4 = FBB+BIN+Resume
>   8 = XFWD
>   Ex: N 15 = Sum of all protocols (default)
> 
I think you're missing 0 which would be for MBL/RLI (aka: NO
compression)

> And from JNOS, the value of mbox fbb as defined in the help files and
> manual:
> 
>     0  =  standard WA7MBL-style forwarding
>     1  =  FBB batched-style forwarding
>     2  =  FBB compressed and batched forwarding
> 
>  
> 
> So, it seems to me that on both systems:
> 
> -- a value of 0 means plain text forwarding
> -- a value of 1 means FBB batched forwarding

> Is that correct?
> 
>From what I've seen with Jack AA6HF this appears to be true.


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