Hello mark!

22 Oct 15 08:41, you wrote to me:

 ml> i took a look and it appears that the site/page is out of date... the
 ml> first thing is that the link to telsrv doesn't work when clicked... it
 ml> comes back and says the file is not found when using an anonymous
 ml> connection... so i went looking... it seems that mannsoft is no longer
 ml> around and that telsrv was renamed to gamesrv now handled by rick
 ml> parrish... a quick search for gamesrv turned up

TelSrv is one example. Any current external telnet server should do just fine.

 ml>   https://www.gamesrv.ca/

For example.

 ml> and the current version available in the downloads link is
 ml> v14.08.14...

 ml> i do see now that telsrv/gamesrv is being used as the telnet server
 ml> instead of having netfoss or netserial running in front... i knew that
 ml> there had to be a way to grab the handle but i didn't know how one
 ml> could do that without assistance from the virtual modem software or
 ml> some way of triggering a dobbs.bat or similar so that the socket
 ml> handle might be dug out somehow...


Yes. Now that you have access to the telnet handle, you can create a dummy
DOOR32.SYS for BBSlink. Obviously we might need to do some tweaking to do
until we get the BBSLink to work but its doable.


Dennis


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