-=> Quoting Scott Brown to Sysop <=-

Hi Scott!

SB> Hi Jay,

JD> I am interested to know if anyone still run old dos based bbs software
JD> AND have their system on internet, telnet?
SB>
SB> Yes and yes...

JD> If so do you have problems with fossil drivers?
SB>
SB> No problems with netfoss.


JD> My system is configured around BNU, and I am trying to figure out how to
JD> make my system telnet capable and of course the main reason is to get
JD> these wonderful old door games back in use.
SB>
SB> What BBS software are you using?

Spitfire for BBS. Frontdoor m/l for front end.

JD> I have heard that the faster machines pentium 3 and faster the old
JD> software like doors have problems running under say Win XP.
JD> Win XP also has problematic issues. No built in support for Novell.
SB>
SB> I'm running Win XP on a old PII computer and have no problems. I've
SB> got lot's  of old DOS games working on my board.
SB>
SB> My OS is Win XP sp3.

I have two XP machines. The preferred machine is a P4 sp3 and could
easily hold the entire server hard drive contents. I am in the process
now of playing around with client32 to connect to the server.
I have been to pcmicro web site and it looked very promising,

SB>
SB> BBS software is Renegade
SB>
SB> fossil drive and telnet is netfoss and net2bbs. Works great.

These were what I was looking at as well. Not sure how Spitfire will
deal with Netfoss. It basically ignores bnu now.

SB> I also use Ftelnet on the website so people without a telnet program
SB> can just  click on the website to log in tru ftelnet. Only problem I
SB> have with that is I don't have the file transfer protocol working for
SB> Ftelnet.

This one I have not seen. You would need this for... newer windows
people that do not have a telnet program on the os? IE: win7 vista etc?

Thanks for the input.




... Jay
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