Hello Alan!

16 Oct 2018 14:00, Alan Ianson wrote to Janis Kracht:

 AI> Hi Janis,

 >>>I am setting up BBBS and I can't remember how to access the waiting for 
 >>>calle mode for use with tcpip. I read in the sysop.txt to run BBBS with 
 >>> the TCPIP device but ./bbbs TCPIP doesn't seem to work.

 >> Ok, for TCPIP on my
 >> node 2, I use this in my scripts:
 >> ==============cut here===========
 >> #!/bin/sh
 >> while :
 >> do
 >> cd /home/bbbs

move that line outside of while do ... done

it will not need to be done every time after /bin/sh its should work

 >> ./bbbs 1 2 /dev/ttyS1 "uid":bbs
 >> # see note below about above line
 >> RC=$?
 >> echo BBBS RC: $RC
 >> if [ $RC = 137 ]; then
 >> exit
 >> fi
 >> if [ $RC = 0 ]; then
 >> exit
 >> fi

can this 2 if not be combined ?

 >> reset
 >> done
 >> ==========cut here=====

 AI> Thanks, I'm going to borrow your script.. :)

i dont need it, but i can share opensource aswell

 AI> I don't have a modem here so I can't use /dev/ttyS1 here. When I tried 
 AI> running BBBS it tries and fails to initialize the modem then quits
so I need a 
 AI> way to start BBBS without a modem.

i gave op with modems under linux long time ago, it was to complicated
compared to how simple it was in amiga os

is this echomail a z1 echomail only, sorry then :)


 Regards Benny

... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)

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