JB> Heya All.. got a couple of questions..

 JB> 1. I've been looking around the net.. haven't see anything for
 JB> making a RA telnetable BBS.. is it possible and if so Where's
 JB> the info?

it is very possible and has been since before w95 ever appeared on the
market... as for /the/ location of /the/ info, i'm not aware of any one
location... much of it has come from many places and simply trying what
works with other setups...

the first instance i mention above (before w95) is done very easily with
IBM's OS/2 and ray gwinn's SIO replacement comms package for OS/2... ray's
package includes a tool known as vmodem.exe which is a telnet server and a
vmodem (the protocol) server... (yes, vmodem is two seperate items... a
protocol and the filename of a tool)... once you get vmodem running and
providing virtual com ports, you only need to point RA to that/those
virtual com ports and away you go...

on the windows platform, things are a bit more difficult... the concept is
the same, though... you use virtual com ports... the difficult part is what
software to use to provide those vrtual com ports...

i'm aware that this may also be done in linux boxen with dosemu and
pointing its com ports to the telnet server or some other way of providing
virtual com ports... i've had the info at hand in the past but not right at
this moment...

 JB> 2. going along with Doorway and Telnet, has anyone tried to
 JB> make doorway use a dos telnet program to get out somewhere
 JB> else, or is RA just as snobbish with the whole Internet?

i can't say that i have done this or that i would attempt it, really... i
just can't see any need for it other than, possibly, to provide your dialup
users with a method of accessing internet sites... i surely would not offer
this capability to my telnet users... why? because they already have telnet
capability, for one thing and the second is that i don't see any need in
them using my system as an intermediary to hide where they are really
accessing a remote site from... yes, there have been abuses of this in the
past ;)

what i'd do is to locate one of the door programs that offers this
capability... or at least, i'd try to... which door one would use for this
would depend on the OS that one is running one's bbs on...

there is also an RA clone, elebbs, that has an "addon" that
"puts the bbs on the web" meaning viewable via a web browser in
html format... i've not played with this addon due to the version of RA
that i run (beta stuffs) and the elebbs stuff is compatible with an older
version of RA than what i run...

i hope this helps, somewhat... at least, it is a beginning... i'll probably
be working on creating that "/the/ location" with that
"/the/ information" at some point... it depends on how much free
time i can find...  knows that i have plenty of webspace left
on my server ;) ;) ;)

)\/(ark