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External Fossil Driver
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SF.EXE is an external version of Searchlight's Fossil driver emulator. You
can use this program to supply Fossil support to programs that run as events
and programs that are external to Searchlight (like front end mailers or
uucp dialers). For door programs and external protocols, it is best to use
the internal Fossil driver setting in Searchlight instead of this external
utility, although the external utility may be useful in situations where you
need to run batch files that contain some programs that are fossil aware
and some that are not.
SF.EXE is not a conventional Fossil driver in the sense that it does not
load into memory as a TSR. Instead, the command SF is followed by the name
of a program, DOS command or batch file which you want to run that requires
Fossil support. SF loads into memory, executes the desired command, and then
unloads immediately from memory. Thus, the TSR portion of SF.EXE is only in
memory for the duration of the command.
You MUST set an SLBBS= environment variable before running the SF.EXE
program. The software looks at a particular Searchlight node for its
configuration information (port type, baud rate, etc). As with the internal
Searchlight Fossil driver, SF.EXE supports only one COM port at a time, and
always uses the locked baud rate and other settings from your Searchlight
configuration instead of depending on the application program you are
running to supply the correct information.
Examples
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Running SF.EXE is very simple. Just preface the command that requires Fossil
support with 'SF'. For example:
sf uucico.exe ...
sf im.exe ...
You can use any program or DOS command as the parameter to sf, and you can
include any needed parameters. If you wish to run several programs at a time
that require fossil support, place the desired commands in a batch file and
give the batch file name as your parameter:
sf runall.bat
(Your COMSPEC environment variable must be properly set for this to work).
Notes
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Use SF.EXE for running events and other programs that are external to
Searchlight, such as Fidonet front end mailers and UUCP dialers. For doors,
set the "Communications Support" to "Fossil" when you run the door instead
of using SF.
You should be able to use SF.EXE for any kind of program that requires a
Fossil driver, thus eliminating the need for other fossil drivers like BNU
or X00.SYS. The only exception is programs that require the use of multiple
COM ports.
The SF driver works with any kind of Com port that Searchlight supports. It
is ideal for running Fossil programs via a DigiBoard, and replaces the need
for other DigiBoard fossil drivers.