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echo: muffin
to: Wes Garland
from: Michele Marie Dalene
date: 2003-07-04 02:15:00
subject: Bink XE Hand-off

-=> Wes Garland wrote to Michele Marie Dalene <=-
 WG> Thanks -- looks like Bink XE handles and passes off a plain serial port 
 WG> (this 
 WG> is good) and Synchronet uses a TTY.
	Actually Synchronet uses a socket. its a telnet application. 
 WG> curses, which talks to the  controlling pseudo tty (long story short, 
 WG> max can't 
 WG> tell the sysop from the user under a getty right now).
 WG>  
 WG> So, handing off to max should be pretty straightforward from Bink XE 
 WG> once I get 
 WG> the serial module running -- something like this would need to run from 
 WG> the 
 WG> mailer:
 WG>  
 WG> cd /var/max && bin/max -b38400 -n1 -pserial:/dev/ttyS1 -xc
	Should be.  Considering the old MSDOS/OS2 Binkleyterm did
explain how to interact with spawnbbs.bat .
					Michele Marie Dalene


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