Re: D'Bridge Telnet Question
  By: Raymond Quinn to Nick Andre on Sat Jun 21 2014 02:52 am

 > -=> Nick Andre wrote to Raymond Quinn <=-
 >
 >
 >  RQ> I have a question. Is there a way, instead of having D'Bridge load up
 >  RQ> a DOS BBS program like Renegade, have it pass control to a telnet
 >  RQ> client to telnet to the BBS instead?
 >
 >  NA> No, D'Bridge will not do this. I am not familiar with Synchronet but
 >  NA> wasn't there something called SexyPOTS or something that would do
 >  NA> this...
 >
 > Thanks for the reply, Nick. SexPOTS was designed for Synchronet Win32, not
 > Linux. The Synchronet Wiki suggests using mgetty for dial-up. I suppose I
 > could use one phone line for D'Bridge in Mail Only mode and a second for
 > the BBS using mgetty.

I realize this is a late reply, but SexPOTS compiles and runs on Linux systems 
too (and does provide some advantages to mgetty). If you're not getting your 
fido mail over dial-up, then there's really no reason to have D'Bridge deal 
with your modem/phone line (cept maybe really desparate crash mailers?).

                                            digital man

Synchronet "Real Fact" #1:
Synchronet version 2 for DOS and OS/2 was released to the public domain in 1997.
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