FOSSIL's a standard protocol for allowing serial communication for telecommunications programs under the DOS operating system. FOSSIL's an acronym for Fido Opus SEAdog Standard Interface Layer. Fido refers to FidoBBS, Opus refers to Opus-CBCS BBS, and SEAdog refers to a Fidonet compatible mailer. The standards document that defines the FOSSIL protocol's maintained by the Fidonet Technical Standards Committee. A "FOSSIL driver"'s simply a communications device driver. They exist because in the ea… (More on Fossil)