Roy J. Tellason wrote to Bo Simonsen about ''OS/2-native twit filter'':

 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.

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

Well I figured the same out, but "Exit"ing is more simpler so I
did try that.. 

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

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

Yes I've the solution in my head, just not in C yet.

 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!

 RJT> I know nothing about XE,  not having progressed past 2.60 here. 
 RJT> 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.

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

?

Bo

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