Subj : BBS waiting for caller
To   : Alan Ianson
From : Benny Pedersen
Date : Tue Oct 16 2018 11:27 pm

Hello Alan!

16 Oct 2018 14:00, Alan Ianson wrote to Janis Kracht:

AI> Hi Janis,

>>>I am setting up BBBS and I can't remember how to access the waiting for
>>>calle mode for use with tcpip. I read in the sysop.txt to run BBBS with
>>> the TCPIP device but ./bbbs TCPIP doesn't seem to work.

>> Ok, for TCPIP on my
>> node 2, I use this in my scripts:
>> ==============cut here===========
>> #!/bin/sh
>> while :
>> do
>> cd /home/bbbs

move that line outside of while do ... done

it will not need to be done every time after /bin/sh its should work

>> ./bbbs 1 2 /dev/ttyS1 "uid":bbs
>> # see note below about above line
>> RC=$?
>> echo BBBS RC: $RC
>> if [ $RC = 137 ]; then
>> exit
>> fi
>> if [ $RC = 0 ]; then
>> exit
>> fi

can this 2 if not be combined ?

>> reset
>> done
>> ==========cut here=====

AI> Thanks, I'm going to borrow your script.. :)

i dont need it, but i can share opensource aswell

AI> I don't have a modem here so I can't use /dev/ttyS1 here. When I tried
AI> running BBBS it tries and fails to initialize the modem then quits so I
need a
AI> way to start BBBS without a modem.

i gave op with modems under linux long time ago, it was to complicated compared
to how simple it was in amiga os

is this echomail a z1 echomail only, sorry then :)


Regards Benny

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