Subj : Re: Net2BBS
To : NICK ANDRE
From : Marceline Jones
Date : Sun Mar 14 2021 05:09 pm
NA> D'Bridge must first be told that when it runs to assume that a caller
NA> is "on the line" and to exit when the call completes. So you create a
NA> dummy semaphore file called LINE1.OTL in the DB directory.
Ah ok.
You are running D'Bridge like a door.
That is cheating :)
NA> Start Net2BBS, test by telnetting locally. Net2BBS should spawn
NA> DBRUN.CMD which loads D'Bridge. In your telnet session you see the
NA> D'Bridge logo followed by "Press ESC twice to access the BBS". Doing so
NA> will swap the mailer out to execute whatever commands you specified.
NA> When the BBS terminates, the session returns to the mailer which at
NA> this point has sensed "dropped carrier" and thus terminates back to
NA> DBRUN... which exits.
Why cannot Net2BBS just pass the raw connection to D'Bridge WFC mode ? is it because the author wants to sell NetSerial instead ?
