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to: ANDREAS KOHLBACH
from: PAYTON BYRD
date: 2016-06-26 12:33:00
subject: Re: WorldBankBBS Update

On Monday, June 13, 2016 at 5:33:16 PM UTC-5, Andreas Kohlbach wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jun 2016 20:32:34 -0700 (PDT), Payton Byrd wrote:
> >
> > Just pushed the first update to WorldBankBBS in 18 months!  I've
> > written a new full screen text editor from scratch and it's a beaut!
> > Call today with PETSCII at bbs.paytonbyrd.com:6400
>
> I was just (check date stamp here against your logs if interested) trying
> to log in PETASCII doesn't work (no surprise with my terminal). ASCII
> give me what looks like a local echo, so I cannot type "GUEST". While
> ANSI allows to type "GUEST" but then doesn't log me in as guest and asks
> for a password. I also see some odd characters there.
>
> I used the Linux telnet client on various ports you provide. TERM here is
> set to "linux". That usually works with other BBS.
> --
> Andreas
> You know you're a redneck if
> 17. You can't get married to your sweetheart because there's a law against
> it.

Please try things now.  I've made a lot of changes.  Your flavor of GNU/Linux
may or may not swap DEL and BS (thank emacs).  If it does, there is an article
on stack exchange's serverfault site for remapping the keyboard for a single
process.

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