Good day to all, Unfortunately my subscription options were set to nomail, so I have not been following posts very reliably this past few months. Anyways, just thought I would dig through the digest and comment on stuff. You don't have to use encap.txt anymore, depending on your configuration. Brian introduced AMPRnet RIP broadcasts a few years ago. Some of us use those now to update our NOS routes. Technically speaking you could always do encap.txt on a NOS system running in DOS - I did it that way over 12 years ago. The irony is (and there was a lot of criticism towards the authors at the time, this was before I took it over in 2004), the original NOS was actually 'hacked' to give it BBS functionality, as well as a few other features. Anythings possible, but removing the NOS from NOS (think about it, that's what it would come down to) would be a big waste of time and all you would have left is a BBS 'hack'. Sound to me perhaps FBB is more what you're looking for. It's a BBS first and foremost. Actually, how about BCM (Baybox) or OpenBCM out of Europe. It's pretty slick stuff actually, check it out. Believe it or not I have a text (console) based Windows (yeah, true native windows not a DOS compile) version of JNOS, experimental like all of the NOS stuff is, even got WINMOR running B2F forwarding with RMS stations in both my windows and linux versions. Again, I'm an experimenter so the software (like usual NOS style) is not always the most user friendly. I'm just going to say, I'm encouraged for my own ham radio needs. Multipsk as a packet modem works too :) I took over from James Dugal in 2004, and rebranded it as JNOS 2.0, you can see it in the credits on my official site for JNOS 2.0. James passed away years ago, passing the tourch so to speak, as others did to him as well when they got tired of working on it, or just had to give it up. My primary development platform for years was LINUX, it still is, just that I feel I need to get moving into the Windows (very untapped user base) domain. Just wish I had more time to devote to it, I'm a busy family and working man too like a lot of the people on this group. The windows version I started with WinPcap cause I wanted a quick way to tie into the WIN32 tcp stack. I've tried to do raw sockets and it's just plain ugly and I got frustrated. The WinPcap has turned out to be pretty decent for what I need. I use the original NOS ip stack code, no windows IP or TCP functions, it's all NOS (yeah obsolete, exciting eh) code for ip routing, and such. Anyways, just thought I would try and clarify a few things. Feel free to ask me if you have more questions about all of this. With kind regards, Maiko Langelaar / VE4KLM * http://www.langelaar.net/projects/jnos2