FOSSIL

For other uses, see Fossil (disambiguation).

FOSSIL is a standard protocol for allowing serial communication for telecommunications programs under MS-DOS compatible operating systems. FOSSIL is an acronym for Fido Opus SEAdog Standard Interface Layer. Fido refers to FidoNet, Opus refers to Opus-CBCS BBS, and SEAdog refers to a Fidonet compatible mailer. The standards document that defines the FOSSIL protocol is maintained by the Fidonet Technical Standards Committee.

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