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- FTS-LIST
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- FidoNet(r) Standards Committee
- Status of Current FidoNet Standards
- February 5, 1990
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- This document replaces FSC-0018 and FSC-0026
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- 1. FTS-0001 (was FSC001-9, FSC-0001) is the basic falback standard for
- use on FidoNet. All mailers must be able to perform this protocol
- should other negotiations fail.
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- FTS-0001 describes transmitted data structures, record and message
- formats, as well as the actual transmission protocols used.
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- 2. FTS-0002 (obsolete, replaced by FTS-0005)
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- 3. FTS-0003 (obsolete, replaced by FTS-0006)
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- 4. FTS-0004 (was FSC-0012) describes the transmitted form of EchoMail.
- Lack of other detailed specifications led us to extract this document
- from the documentation of a FidoNet utility, with the kind permission
- of its author, Bob Hartman.
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- FTS-0004 describes echo history, topologies, and message formats.
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- 5. FTS-0005 (replaces FTS-0002) defines the format of the distributed
- FidoNet nodelist.
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- 6. FTS-0006 (replaces FTS-0003, updates FTS-0001) describes a
- capability exchange protocol (YooHoo/2U2), which allows two FidoNet
- systems to dynamically negotiate (at the start of a session) which
- of a list of protocols is to be used. FTS-0006 is also known as the
- WaZOO protocol, and the WaZOO method of making file/update requests
- is also defined here.
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- FTS-0006 is used as the base for protocol experimentation on
- FidoNet.
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- 7. FTS-0007 (updates FTS-0001) describes the SEAlink protocol extension
- to FTS-0001.
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- 8. FTS-0008 (updates FTS-0001) describes the Bark protocol extension
- to FTS-0001. Bark is a method of making file/update requests.
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- 9. ARCmail is as specified in the System Enhancement Associates
- documentation for ARCmail version 0.6.
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- It consists of ARCed files named
- nnnnmmmm.dd#
- where nnnn is (orignet-destnet) in hex, mmmm is (orignode-destnode)
- in hex, dd is a day of the week in the form MO, TU, WE,TH, FR, SA,
- or SU, and # is a decimal digit.
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- These ARCmail files consist of multiple FTS-0001 mail packets of
- multiple EchoMail messages with AREA:<areaname> lines etc. These
- packets are named
- ddhhmmssxx.PKT
- where dd is the day of the month in decimal, hhmmss is the hour
- minute and second in decimal, and xx is hundreths of a second in
- decimal.
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