On Thursday, October 1, 2020 at 10:12:19 AM UTC-4, IB Joe wrote:
> On 01 Oct 2020, Jay Harris said the following... 
> JH> IJ> A few questions... what BBS software are you going to use?? If the B 
> JH> IJ> is not dialup ready what's your plan there... 
> JH> 
> JH> I used Synchronet's SEXPOTS to add dialup support to my Mystic board on 
> JH> Win32. 
> JH> 
> JH> All SEXPOTS does is answer the modem and then send that to Telnet. Over 
> JH> VoIP phone lines I was only able to get a 19,200 to 38,400 baud 
> JH> connection, but it worked quite well. I don't have it setup anymore, 
> JH> because... why? 
> JH> 
> JH> Setup was quite easy, just edit the sexpots.ini file & then run 
> JH> SEXPOTS.EXE -com 4 -baud 38400. (At least that's what I ran for my USB 
> JH> modem on my voip line, YMMV). 
> JH> 
> JH> Jay 
> 
> A suggestion I would have made... I would have went with a current version of

> Mystic and used sexpots myself.... There are some fellow SysOps trying to 
> get their BBSes going on XT machines, no HDD of 5.25 floppies. 
> 
> :)
> IB Joe 
> AKA Joe Schweier 
> SysOp of Joe's BBS 
> -=JoesBBS.com=-

When I first started this project, I gave Synchronet with sexpots a try on a
Windows XP machine (also with a Digi AccelPort PCI card) and I could never get
sexpots running as a service in an effort to automate the startup. I guess I
could run 4 instances 
of it, maybe starting from a Windows command file or something and then use the
latest RC of Mystic (which I like better). I wonder if I can use a batch file
to start sexpots and the related Mystic node so that I don't have to click 8
things...I assume 
so.

Let me try the fix to the replacement variable and see if that works.
Everything works right now except for that, and it's pretty speedy. I have 4
Hayes 14400 modems connected to a Panasonic 6x24 hybrid PBX. So, you don't have
to dial 7 digits -- only 3 -
- but it works great. Love the sound. Running @ 300 baud is horrible, but I've
done 1200 on a Mac SE (barely passable) and 14400 on a Mac IIci (reasonable).

I may still try the upgrade to 1.12rc46 with sexpots. It's easy enough to back
up the configuration if I mess it up.

Rich

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