G'Day Sean,

14 Jul 03 18:57, you wrote to me:

 RVR>> Hmm thats something to do with your terminal character set in
 RVR>> linux. Do you have TERM=linux in your .profile? Most default to
 RVR>> this. Or are you talking logging in remotely?

 SD> Both.  Either if I log in locally or remotely, I see the garbage.  I can
 SD> post my .profile if need be/

Umm maybe someone else has a better idea. But it sounds like something to do
with the Mandrake install version of the term. But its not really something I
know a lot about.

 RVR>> Umm tried that.. didn't get the mblogin screen :-) Are you sending
 RVR>> the request to mblogin?

 SD> No, but I don't know why you couldn't log in.  I've got three other
 SD> people that got in there...

If you don't forward the login to mblogin how do you login to the bbs?

 RVR>> Well, rather then use ssh if you are doing stuff remotely, i would
 RVR>> suggest just assigning a different port to telnet in your
 RVR>> /etc/services file and thus allowing your inetd.conf to retain
 RVR>> correct information for telnet and mblogin.

 SD> Until I get this BBS up and running, the telnet is going to the OS/2 box
 SD> as I do have regular callers.

Ahh but on the mbse one it will be a different port... It only calls it
"telnet" cause thats the description of the port as given in /etc/services.
You could tell it port 66666 is telnet and it will believe that. Thus you use
a telnet client to connect but tell it to connect via port 66666 and things
will work.

 RVR>> I couldn't login at all under ssh, not even using
"bbs" which is
 RVR>> the default new user account creation for mbse.

 SD> That's odd, really odd.

 RVR>> Oh and don't forget your dosemu for the dos doors :-)

 SD> That I'm trying to learn.

 SD> Now, here's something that you or someone else might be able to help me:
 SD> I am wanting to port my Pascal doors to Linux.  I have Free Pascal
 SD> installed and have written a unit to get the door.sys drop file, but I'm
 SD> not sure what/where to write the output to.  Do you use it just like a
 SD> standard program or do you have to specify where it's going to?

Ack! I'm not really that kind of programmer :-) Maybe Michiel will jump in
with some advice.

Btw, if you want a native linux game that you can setup to run via mbse then
get "angband", it works fine (although no user will play it). It's one of
those Moria/Nethack type clones.

The standard dos doors work fine under dosemu as well.

Cheers,
                Rick

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