Re: Re: php software
  By: Scott Adams to Rob Swindell on Tue Nov 15 2005 11:55 pm

 > `07*** Quoting Rob Swindell from a message to Scott Adams ***`07
 > 
 > RS>   Re: Re: php software
 > RS>   By: Scott Adams to Rob Swindell on Tue Nov 15 2005 07:15 pm
 > 
 >  > *** Quoting Rob Swindell from a message to Scott Adams ***
 >  >
 >  > RS>   Re: Re: php software
 >  > RS>   By: Scott Adams to Marc Carrano on Tue Nov 15 2005 12:02 am
 >  >
 >  >  >  -=> Quoting Marc Carrano to All <=-
 >  >  >
 >  >  >
 >  >  >  MC> I've been out of the  BBS enviroment for a long time, Close
 >  >  >  MC> 94, is there a php system that will run door
games or should I
 >  >  >  MC> a telnet system backup?
 >  >  >
 >  >  >
 >  >  >  MC> what is still out there. I ran a remote access system.
 >  >  >
 >  >  >
 >  >  >         The classics are still around...depends on what your
 >  >  >         needing and looking for.  WWIV, TG, RG, RA, pcboard..etc..
 >  >  >
 >  >  >         I know some of those do telnet (TG for example)...
 >  >
 >  > RS> I guess that depends on what your definition of "do" is.
 >  >
 >  > Support..allow it..easy to setup..etc.
 > 
 > RS> TG has no internal support for Telnet.
 > 
 > 
 > Not built in. But that what makes it great.  It supports Telnet and many TG
 > systems ARE telnet.
 > 
 > Easy to setup and ready to go.

"It" (TG) doesn't support Telnet any more than RG, RA, or any other crappy
16-bit BBS software does. Sure, you can use a 3rd party FOSSIL driver (like
SyncFOSS or NETFOSS for Windows or Ray Gwinn's VMODEM/SIO for OS/2) to kludge
the BBS softare into thinking it's talking to a serial port/modem, but that
doesn't make TG "support Telnet" any more than any other software for those
platforms.

TG doesn't "do telnet". It "does FOSSIL", and 3rd party
FOSSIL drivers can be
utilitized to support Telnet for obsolete 16-bit BBS programs like it.

True 32-bit BBS packages that "do telnet" on Windows include Synchronet (of
course), EleBBS, Wildcat!, Mystic, BBBS, and WWIV v5. There may be more, but TG
ain't one of them.

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