Re: Open source front end and tosser for Mystic/Synchronet
  By: Maurice Kinal to Alan Ianson on Fri Sep 16 2005 05:32 pm

Hello Maurice,

 >  AI> I don't know if the 2.x version can be built on linux. That could
 >  AI> be a problem. I know that some folks are running dial up nodes with
 >  AI> Synchronet somehow fakeing it out so Sync will handle the call as
 >  AI> a telnet connection. I have no idea how that is done though.
 > 
 > I would guess pppd so that an ip address can be given to the caller or
 > something simular to that.  That would be the easier, and perhaps the best, 
 > to handle callers via a dialup connection.  Once that is established then it
 > the same as any other tcpip connection.

That sounds like it just might do the trick. Back around '95 or
so I used to dial up to the Vancouver Community Net with any old
terminal program and when I logged in I had a menu that had a few
options on it (Lynx or Pine and a couple others like that). Any
files I downloaded were in my home directory and I would just
download them with zmodem. It must have worked something along
those lines. That was my only internet access at the time!
  

 Ttyl :-),
         Al
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