Maurice Kinal wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 MK> Hey Roy!

 MK> Apr 08 04:05 04, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 RJT> Yeah,  well,  you oughta know darn well by now that we're on the 
 RJT> same wavelength when it comes to this sort of thing...

 MK> I know and you know but few others truly understand.  It always
 MK> confuses those people when you ask about stuff that does less then
 MK> what they think people want, no matter what we're talking about.

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

 MK> Same as every other OS.  No special magic there.  The difference is
 MK> what you do with the end result and in Linux you can interplay it
 MK> with much other networking and end up with something entirely
 MK> different.  You don't even have to be a programmer but the ability
 MK> to script is extremely handy.

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

 MK> Sounds good.  Personally I prefer binkd as it is more flexable.

But we're talking about two different things here,  binkd is a protocol, 
right?  If it's a program I don't know anything about it -- I'm talking
about binkleyterm as a front end mailer here...

 RJT> Ok,  and that's a protocol that I can use to deal with my uplink,  
 RJT> or if not him directly then _an_ uplink,  how do I handle incoming 
 RJT> calls?  Right now it's bink that watches the phone line,  answers it 
 RJT> when it rings,  and hands off to the bbs when that's necessary.  I'd 
 RJT> need something to do the same thing under linux.

 MK> mgetty.

Ok.  That's something else I need to look into.

 RJT> Yep,  that's what I have bink doing now.  Note that it doesn't have 
 RJT> to exit, necessarily.  The OS/2 version "spawns" the bbs program 
 RJT> instead,  and doesn't exit.

 MK> Yep.  No problem with Linux either.

 RJT> Yep.  But I haven't got a clue as to where to start with that stuff.

 MK> Yep.  That is a very good reason for these types of echoes.  Isn't
 MK> it? 

Sure is.  I'm just not sure if this is the right one for this stuff or not.
 I guess we'll see.

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