Subj : Dial-up and Telnet Synchr
To : MATTHEW D
From : Daryl Stout
Date : Sat Oct 08 2005 04:10 am
MD> Re: Dial-up and Telnet Synchronet?
> By: Mike Powell to All on Sat Feb 26 2005 09:41 am
MD>Synchronet will accept both telnet and dial-up callers.
I think the DOS/OS2 version of Synchronet (2.30) will do so without an
extra utility. With the Windows version of Synchronet (currently 3.13a),
you need something like the 32-bit Argus frontend, along with the
dialup-to-telnet program to allow your dial-up callers to access the
BBS...since, Synchronet for Windows doesn't actually offer dial-up
caller support anymore.
I use the Argus and dialup-to-telnet programs for callers to access
Synchronet over here. Amazingly, I have several callers who prefer
dial-up to telnet. And, from the last check of The BBS Corner dial-up
and telnet BBS list, I'm the last dial-up BBS in Arkansas...and one of
the now under 100 total dial-up BBS's left in the U.S. and Canada.
By the way, you can set up Argus to also accept other "network netmail
calls" (such as GT Power software mailbags), and use QWK Networking to
move mail in and out...which is what I do. Argus can also be set up to
take faxes...although I use the old BGFAX View utility to look at
these...and more often than not, I delete them.
Lastly...Argus, DialUp-To-Telnet, and Synchronet...all for Windows...
are all freeware.
