Bo Simonsen wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 BS> Roy J. Tellason wrote to Maurice Kinal about ''OS/2-native twit
 BS> filter'': 


 RJT>> In my case it's (currently) handled by a fossil driver and the 
 RJT>> connection is handed off from binkley.  How does that work under 
 RJT>> linux?

 MK>> First off there is no need for a fossil driver

 RJT> I didn't think so.  But I have *no* idea how the serial port stuff
 RJT> is handled under linux.

 BS> Well I did program the modem support for maximus, so I should be
 BS> the right one to tell you. ;)

 BS> Modem thing under Linux works like working with files.. You just
 BS> open a "file" which is /dev/ttySx, and then you use read()/write()
 BS> commands, to send and recieve data from the modem.

 BS> There is some libery functions (tios, man tcgetattr), to 
 BS> lower/raise DTR and so on. Like ioctl() also serves some usefull
 BS> functions..

 BS> And a lucky news I did do a successfully session yesterday with my
 BS> modem. I let binkley answer the call and then binkley spawned the
 BS> BBS (under linux ofcause), and it did work out.

I guess my earlier comment on binkley spawning the bbs (rather than exiting
as it does now under dos here) was a pretty lucky guess,  then.

 BS> I still have some problems about if the user lost carrier and so
 BS> on, but it take some time.

That's a thing here -- there isn't a menu on my system (and I've added some
to the stock setup) that doesn't have the "G)oodbye" command on
it,  but most of the time people don't use it -- they just drop carrier.

 MK>> but I am not sure about the Linux version of bink.

 RJT> Neither am I.  I remember somebody saying that he got it to
 RJT> compile,  but that there were some hassles.  Maybe I oughta take
 RJT> it up in the LINUXBBS echo once I decide to start moving on this.

 BS> BTXE works very well and it's very stable!

I know nothing about XE,  not having progressed past 2.60 here.  Maybe I
should at least look at some of the further editions?

 RJT> Yep,  that's what I have bink doing now.  Note that it doesn't
 RJT> have to exit, necessarily.  The OS/2 version "spawns" the bbs
 RJT> program instead,  and doesn't exit.  I think that may have some
 RJT> advantages,  though I'm not quite 100% sure of what they are as I
 RJT> never did get things going under OS/2 here. 

 BS> Yes you need the "os/2" way under Linux, but "BBS
Spawn" in
 BS> binkley.cfg together with a spawnbbs shell script.

Well,  perhaps if you get some of what you're seeing as problems nailed
down we could get moving from that point.

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