WG> Simply renumbering files under UNIX is a simple matter of  a shell 
 WG> script, but 
 WG> that would screw up users' high water mark.
	thats why we in the opus days used little utilities to fix the
lastread files. the o_renum and its sisters in renumbering took care
of all of that. 
 WG> I'm not familiar with Synchronet at all, but MEX is basically like a 
 WG> cross of 
 WG> Pascal and C++, which runs under a Java-style VM (virtual machine).
	that sounds very similar to what Synchronet does. As I stated,
I don't use that stuff. 
 WG> Also, I'm planning on hatching out the first serial comm module sometime 
 WG> in the 
 WG> next week. No promises, though.
	Cool. let me know where to get the updated alpha or beta
versions when they are ready. 
 WG> Oh! You mentioned that your run BinkleyTerm XE. Do you know how it hands 
 WG> off 
 WG> the serial port to the application?
	Very much like the msdos/Os2 methold of using spawnbbs In
my system the script file has to be in /usr/bin/spawnbbs
Now as it is now this is how I kludged Synchronet to talk to a pots
user

#!/bin/sh
export TERM=ansi.sys
/sbin/agetty -h $1 ttyS1 vt100

that calls agetty which fires the normal unix login. a bbs user gives
the username of bbs (no password needed) to login to synchronet. heres
the script  of the bbs user, this script is called .profile in the bbs
users home directory.

export TERM=ansi.sys
telnet -8 -E pinkrose.local.net
logout


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