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From: schansen@amc.com (Scott Hansen)
Subject: Interfacing Wildcat! to the Internet?
Organization: Applied Microsystems, Redmond, WA
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:02:02 GMT


I have a simple question, and I don't want to start an OS or bbs
software religous war.  Has anyone came up with a method for 
interfacing Wildcat! bi-directionally to the Internet (email
and Usenet)?

-Scott       
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Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: rob@sound.demon.co.uk (Robert J Barth)
Subject: BBS with VAX server + PC nodes ???
Reply-To: rob@sound.demon.co.uk
Distribution: world
X-Mailer: cppnews $Revision: 1.20 $
Organization: Sound & Vision BBS (UK) 0932 252323
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:13:01 +0000

Does anyone have any experience of running a DEC-VAX as a fileserver for a
3+ line BBS ?
At the moment I'm running netware lite with a 486 server, and 3 286 nodes,
and logic tells me to move onto netware 3.11 etc
But using a VAX box seems like a good idea, as I can get hold of one fairly
cheaply...
I have 3 lines now, and intend to upgrade to anything up to 10/20 or more..

I would appreciate comments on the following, and more if you can help :
- What sort of machine should I be looking for ?
  (model, CPU, memory, connections, size, power, age, etc..)
  How many 14400bps (38400bps) can one drive, depending on model ?
- software
  (VMS, Ultrix, Pathworks, Server/Node modes?)
- Setup
  VAX only i.e. directly connect modems to it
  PC nodes - how fast do these need to be - overhead ?

thanks in advance
-rob-

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Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: grant@bluemoon.use.com (Grant DeLorean)
Subject: Re: MUD for TBBS?
Organization: Blue Moon
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 04:53:41 GMT

dinn@ug.cs.dal.ca (Michael 'Moose' Dinn) writes:

>In article <1992Dec14.160640.16530@bluemoon.use.com> grant@bluemoon.use.com (Grant DeLorean) writes:
>>moose@swamp.alt.ns.ca (Michael Dinn) writes:
>> I should have made that more clear, you will need a box on the net to
>>be able to FTP so that system has to be considered. No need to buy
>>wuarchive or export or simtel. But how you are reaching them is
>>important, not everyone has access to an FTP account out there. Some

>Use FTPmail. It lets you FTP by mail. And if you're reading this group, you
>probably have mail access.

 You will not be popular with sites between you and there when many
megabytes of mail come through just for you...

>>time explaining why they are taking home many many floppies or several
>>tapes (or even one 2 gig 8mm tape), may even get fired for it (no matter

>Then it's probably not worth working there.

 Any agency with security clearance is out for you then, eh?
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        Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.

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Newsgroups: alt.bbs,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Info Wanted! x.25 software
From: jonc@status.gen.nz (Jon Clarke)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 18:08:04 GMT
Organization: The Z*NET Global News Gateway in Parnell New Zealand.

koga@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Arthur Koga) writes:

> Aloha!
> 
> I would like to know if anyone has information or recommendations on software
> that has the following specifications and functions.  It must also run on
> the platform described.
> 
> OS:  MS-DOS or UNIX
> X.25 Capability, supports 32 concurrent users (virtual circuits)
> 386 Machine, 25 MHz
> IBM Compatible
> 
 
 Having set many of these up for various machines, I would suggest you
 you simply get a multi node BBS system that supports LC type 
 connections, ie Major BBS, RBBS and many other MS_DOS based systems.
 
 Call (0)530197000057 on connect (COM) press the "1" key about 5 times
 and you will see an example of "waffle" on x25.


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From: dawson@hobbes.bsan.bls.com (Willard Dawson)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Re: Virtual BBS
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:36:21 GMT
Organization: BellSouth Systems Integration

fsjes3@ix.acf-lab.alaska.edu  writes:

>In article <1992Dec10.195136.1042@hypnos.bssi.bls.com>  
>dawson@hobbes.bsan.bls.com (Willard Dawson) writes:
>> genetex@apres.UUCP (Jonathan Nowak) writes:
>> 
>> <speaking of VBBS...>
>> 
>> >It also has built-in support for 4 network types. VirtualNET (It's native
>> >network and also the most advanced!), FidoNET, WWIVnet/WWIVlink, and UUCP.
>> >Of these 4 network types, you can run up to 999 networks simultaneously!
>> >I'm not kidding!  And the software allows automatic gating of one 
>> >conference to another.  So I could, for example gate the UseNet alt.bbs 
>> >forum into the WWIVnet forum on bbs's.  It automatically handles all the
>> >conversions and updating.
>> 
>> Do you mean to say that you can ONLY have 999 conferences?  Geeze, that's
>> just too limiting for me.
>
>Actually, no, it means 999 NETWORKS, transparently...at once.

I still don't know what you're talking about.  What does it mean to say:
"You can run up to 999 networks simultaneously." If you're not equating
"conferences" with "newsgroups," how do you define "network?"  Note that
the current active file on my news server has more than 900 newsgroups
for the Usenet alone... and it would likely be more than twice that size
if we had most of the alt groups defined.

Are you perhaps refering to "message header standards?"  Do you mean to
say that each network, with its different set of standard headers, may
have an unlimited number of newsgroups?

>> How about comparing 600 "nodes" with the number of sites that can post
>> or read the Usenet netnews?  That's "what is!"

>But it is very easy to get connected to usenet when you have a feed.

The only point was that combining references to the size of the support
network with statements of praise for the quality of the software is of
little use.  You'll never win in a size comparison against the Internet,
much less against the Usenet.
--
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 Atlanta, GA  30342, Voice: +1 404 303 2343, UUCP: gatech!vdbsan!hobbes!dawson
 Internet -> X.400:  /G=W/S=DAWSON/O=BSAN/ADMD=BELLSOUTH/C=US/@sprint.com
 Percent hack:  dawson%vdbsan@gatech.edu   ::    Standard disclaimer applies.
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: pizzi@nervous.com (Riccardo Pizzi)
Subject: Re: Comment about Larry
Organization: The Nervous XTC Unix BBS +39-541-27135 HST/PEP/V32b
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 00:31:29 GMT

In article <1992Dec12.231143.935@blurt.oswego.edu> ch_ind05@blurt.oswego.edu (Greg Fuller (SUNY Oswego, Oswego New York)) writes:

>Well..If it was up to me, I would not listen to Larry (how ever you spell his
>last name).  I had a bad deal with him a while back.  I bought a hard drive
>with a controller card from him.  He said that it was in perfect condition. 
>When I got it, I looked it over and everything seemed to be OK, but I put it in
>my machine, and it BLEW the whole motherboard!  Thanks to him, I had to buy a
>whole new hard drive, wasted my $100 on the one that I bought from him, and had
>to buy a new motherboard.

Come on, Greg, how could you even think to put Larry's good faith in
discussion?? It could be that you was just out of luck that day :-)
Couldn't be that YOUR motherboard blew up for some circumstances and the
controller card died with it?

Rick
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Newsgroups: alt.bbs,comp.sys.ibm.pc
From: cblaise@moose.uvm.edu.UUCP (Chris Blaise)
Subject: Re: Info Wanted! x.25 software
Originator: cblaise@moose.uvm.edu
Organization: University of Vermont -- Division of EMBA Computer Facility
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:30:12 GMT

From article <BzBE2q.Hv2@news.rn.com>, by larry@news.rn.com (Larry Snyder):
> cblaise@moose.uvm.edu.UUCP (Chris Blaise) writes:
>>experience with hooking it into an x.25 Pad, it is supported by the software
> 
> Actually, you could have a front end to the TBBS machine which rlogins
> into the TBBS machine -- or connects via serial lines into a TBBS system
> using a dumb terminal emulater..

	When we were looking at the possibility of getting such a beast,
from the information I had gathered, we could buy sort of an "intermediate"
box (like the dumb terminal servers we're currently using) that would allow
one to hook their serial cables into it, with the other end connecting
to the PAD.  Unfortunately, I never went beyond that stage, so I can't
really comment on it any more, but it sounds somewhat like your second
suggestion.

 TTYL
 Chris
From: dinn@ug.cs.dal.ca (Michael 'Moose' Dinn)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Re: MUD for TBBS?
Date: 14 Dec 92 18:34:04 GMT
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

In article <1992Dec14.160640.16530@bluemoon.use.com> grant@bluemoon.use.com (Grant DeLorean) writes:
>moose@swamp.alt.ns.ca (Michael Dinn) writes:
> I should have made that more clear, you will need a box on the net to
>be able to FTP so that system has to be considered. No need to buy
>wuarchive or export or simtel. But how you are reaching them is
>important, not everyone has access to an FTP account out there. Some

Use FTPmail. It lets you FTP by mail. And if you're reading this group, you
probably have mail access.

>time explaining why they are taking home many many floppies or several
>tapes (or even one 2 gig 8mm tape), may even get fired for it (no matter

Then it's probably not worth working there.

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From: Marg_Meikle@mindlink.bc.ca (Marg Meikle)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Toronto: best bet??
Date: 20 Dec 92 21:54:25 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada

In your collective humble opinions,  is Canada Remote Systems the best way to
go for folks in Toronto who aren't part of a university or a business with
e-mail and want to  get onto the Internet and use e-mail?  I boasted about
the services of Mindlink here in B.C. and now my pals in the east want me to
help them get with it too.  Thanks.
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: fsjes3@ix.acf-lab.alaska.edu 
Subject: Re: Virtual BBS
Reply-To: fsjes3@camelot.acf-lab.alaska.edu
Organization: University of Alaska Computer Network
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:35:15 GMT

In article <1992Dec10.195136.1042@hypnos.bssi.bls.com>  
dawson@hobbes.bsan.bls.com (Willard Dawson) writes:
> genetex@apres.UUCP (Jonathan Nowak) writes:
> 
> <speaking of VBBS...>
> 
> >It also has built-in support for 4 network types. VirtualNET (It's native
> >network and also the most advanced!), FidoNET, WWIVnet/WWIVlink, and UUCP.
> >Of these 4 network types, you can run up to 999 networks simultaneously!
> >I'm not kidding!  And the software allows automatic gating of one 
> >conference to another.  So I could, for example gate the UseNet alt.bbs 
> >forum into the WWIVnet forum on bbs's.  It automatically handles all the
> >conversions and updating.
> 
> Do you mean to say that you can ONLY have 999 conferences?  Geeze, that's
> just too limiting for me.

Actually, no, it means 999 NETWORKS, transparently...at once.

> 
> >This revolutionary program is written completely by Roland DeGraaf, who is 
> >legally blind (But can see well enough to type), has audiographic, and 
> >photographic memories.  Although VBBS has been around only 2 years, the
> >VirtualNET includes more than 600 nodes worldwide and is expanding at 5%
> >per week.  If that alone isn't enough for you I don't know what is!
> 
> How about comparing 600 "nodes" with the number of sites that can post
> or read the Usenet netnews?  That's "what is!"

But it is very easy to get connected to usenet when you have a feed.

> 
> >--
> >genetex@apres.UUCP (Jonathan Nowak)
> >Applied Research (cryptography & security BBS)  1 708 639 8853
> --
>  Willard Dawson, BellSouth Advanced Networks, 1100 Johnson Ferry Road, Ste. 880
>  Atlanta, GA  30342, Voice: +1 404 303 2343, UUCP: gatech!vdbsan!hobbes!dawson
>  Internet -> X.400:  /G=W/S=DAWSON/O=BSAN/ADMD=BELLSOUTH/C=US/@sprint.com
>  Percent hack:  dawson%vdbsan@gatech.edu   ::    Standard disclaimer applies.program is written completely by Roland DeGraaf, who is 
> >legally blind (But can see well enough to type), has audiographic, and 
> >photographic memories.  Although VBBS has been around only 2 years, the
> >VirtualNET includes more than 600 nodes worldwide and is expanding at 5%
> >per week.  If that alone isn't enough for you I don't know what is!
> 
> How about comparing 600 "nodes" with the n
From: kjv@exucom.com (Karl J. Vesterling)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: XBBS on SGI Irix
Date: 14 Dec 92 05:13:18 GMT
Organization: ExuCom MultiMedia Inc.


	Can anyone tell me where I can obtain something like a manual
that would explain how to set up XBBS 7.2?

	Apparently there is a suite of files in the distribution
called:

	MAKE_?????.bbs


	I've gotten it to function, and accept new users, etc...  But,
just about anything that would make it usefull doesn't work.

	BTW, I've sucessfully compiled it on an SGI Iris Indigo using
gcc.  If anyone is interested, send me E-Mail and I'll send you the
diffs.  Considering that it was meant *ENIX, it brought back some
headaches, errr memories...  In short, it's compiled, functional, but
lacking configuration.

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From: carlos@carlos
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Re: Community News Service
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 21:51:04 -0500
Reply-To: carlos@infoserv.com
Organization: Dominguez UseNet, Brooklyn NY, USA

In <BzIpnv.8L4@cscns.com> klaus@cscns.com (Klaus Dimmler) writes:

> - 800 service from all 50 states available 
> 
> To sign up: telnet to cscns.com, log in as "new", passwd "newuser", or
>             call the CNS offices at 719-592-1240
> 

Klaus:

What are your rates?  Enquiring minds would like to know..


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From: roise@sumax.seattleu.edu (Linda Roise)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Re: Prodigy at 9600 baud from Macintosh (San Jose, CA)?
Date: 15 Dec 92 01:00:23 GMT
	<1992Dec9.053119.25884@adobe.com>
Organization: Seattle University
In-reply-to: cjackson@adobe.com's message of 9 Dec 92 05:31:19 GMT

In article <1992Dec9.053119.25884@adobe.com> cjackson@adobe.com (Curtis Jackson) writes:

   I have heard that there is a patch to the PC Prodigy binary that will
   allow one to access Prodigy at 9600 baud in most areas. Is there any
   mechanism for doing so from the Mac version of the software?

If you have a Prodigy account, JUMP 9600 and you will get the
information you need, I think.  

The change is not in the software at your end, but in the software at
Prodigy's end.  If there is a change to your end's software, it's done
by Prodigy when the account is being reconfigured.  

It will cost you about $2/mo more for 9600 baud access.

The only problem I had with my PC was that I had to set the modem init
string properly, which, in the case of my Gateway 2000 TelePath
FaxModem, had to be done manually, and I needed to consult with
Prodigy by voicephone, after I'd had the account reconfigured at their
end, to determine the proper strings.

It seems well worth the $2/mo more.  Speed's beginning to be not only
acceptable, but confortable to this unix-spoiled user.

--
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Seattle, WA, USA
roise@sumax.seattleu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: isr@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Michael S. Schechter - ISR group account)
Subject: 415 BBS's ?
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 11:50:20 EST

IS there a list of 415 BBS's somewhere? one of my users has moved out
to SF for 6 months and wants to know about local BBSs out there..
please email or respond since I usually dont re thgis group..
thanks
From: abolins%visavis.uucp@nyongwa.cam.org (August Abolins)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: bbslist uuencoded
Date: 17 Dec 92 15:54:30 GMT
Organization: Vis-a-Vis Communications [Ontario+Quebec]


//From: lchang@uoft02.utoledo.edu
//Subject: THE BBS List v1, #9 uuencoded (1/1)
//Date: 14 Dec 92 17:50:17 EST
//Lines: 1415

//        This is a uuencoded to save some people the trouble of e-mail
//request. If you think this is a total waste of bandwidth, please let me
//know. 1 of 1.
//
//begin 644 BBSv1n9.txt
//M5$A%($)"4R!,:7-T("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@
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//M;VYY82!#:&%N9R`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("`@("!$96-E...

Hello Sonya,

Having the file uuencoded was sort of inefficient:

        BBSLIST  UUE     88102 12-17-92  10:22a
        BBSV1N9  TXT     62869 12-17-92  10:23a

The plain text version was smaller.



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Newsgroups: alt.bbs
From: eng20204@nusunix1.nus.sg (LEE MUH HWA)
Subject: fido-compatible mail processors for UltraBBS
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 03:24:37 GMT

Can anyone recommend a fido-compatible mail processor for UltraBBS that
will work with Binkleyterm or Frontdoor?

Is there an ftp site for such a software?

Thanks

Lee Muh Hwa
eng20204@nusunix1.nus.sg
From: pozar@kumr.lns.com (Tim Pozar)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Re: InterNet Feed
Date: 13 Dec 92 07:16:35 GMT
Organization: Late Night Software (San Francisco)

larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
>carlos@infoserv.com (Carlos Dominguez) writes:
>>A few very gracious people have set themselves up as gateways, ie: transfer
>>points between FIDO and Internet for News and EMail..
>
>And usenet usually absorbs the results of these gates in the form of
>duplicates with different ID's and the wrong conference in the wrong
>newsgroup
 
   You should see how many newsgroup dupes I get from Internet and UUCP 
sites.  Sheesh!  

                 Tim

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Xref: sparky alt.bbs:7586 comp.sys.ibm.pc:989
From: aris@lasernet.co.za (Aris Stathakis)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Info Wanted! x.25 software
Date: 16 Dec 92 21:23:09 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Lasernet (Pty) Ltd.

In <1992Dec15.193012.8169@uvm.edu> cblaise@moose.uvm.edu.UUCP (Chris Blaise) writes:

>From article <BzBE2q.Hv2@news.rn.com>, by larry@news.rn.com (Larry Snyder):
>> cblaise@moose.uvm.edu.UUCP (Chris Blaise) writes:
>>>experience with hooking it into an x.25 Pad, it is supported by the software
>> 
>> Actually, you could have a front end to the TBBS machine which rlogins
>> into the TBBS machine -- or connects via serial lines into a TBBS system
>> using a dumb terminal emulater..

>	When we were looking at the possibility of getting such a beast,
>from the information I had gathered, we could buy sort of an "intermediate"
>box (like the dumb terminal servers we're currently using) that would allow
>one to hook their serial cables into it, with the other end connecting
>to the PAD.  Unfortunately, I never went beyond that stage, so I can't
>really comment on it any more, but it sounds somewhat like your second
>suggestion.


We're running such a beast now under SCO UNIX.  Our PAD is an internal
EICON X.25 card running their drivers (*REAL* Nice I might add).  

Everything is transparent to the user and _VERY_ reliable.  I wouldn't
touch an external standalone pad with a 10-foot-anything after using
an internal pad.

Our BBS software is UNIXBBS, but that could be anything really.  The
X.25 connection is treated as any other tty login.

By the way, the EICON card an route IP over X.25 at the same time as being
a dialout/dialin pad, all transparently.  I am truly impressed with this
card.

No connection of course :-)  Just a happy customer.

Aris

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From: pix@cumquat.apana.org.au (Steven Pickles)
Newsgroups: alt.bbs
Subject: Re: BBS DOOR PROTOCOLS (what kind of?)
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 07:47:04 +1030
Organization: Beyond Oblivion

ckerr@nucleus.cuc.ab.ca (Chris Kerr) writes:

>         I'm just starting to get into creating bbs doors for IBM based BBS
> systems.  I've run into a problem with door protocol!  I need to know how BBS
> commonly pass parameters on to doors and in which ways. (i.e. when the door w

Well from my (possibly) limited experience .. that is - RA, TeleGard and 
some other obscure BBS packages (no tomatoes please), most of those I 
have used make a file containing the relevant information. For instance, 
DOOR.SYS is becoming a standard generic door file, whereas RBBS/QBBS and 
RA use DORINFOx.DAT (where x is the nodenumber - so helpful for 
multi-node operation). Also, whem passing user info to a program via the 
command line, the manner in which they are passed is usually configurable 
within the package .. for instance, you enter the command line, including 
special characters that are then substituted for relevant information 
(telegard used the @x format, where x was a letter such as F for first 
name, T for time etc etc).
 
The formats for these files are usually included in the documentation for 
the BBS Software. I would say to use DOOR.SYS if it is not a multi-line 
BBS as most BBS systems can either produce a DOOR.SYS file, or they have 
the appropriate converters to convert between doorfiles.

Hope this was of help, if you need help getting the doorfile structures 
tell me and I may be able to track them down ...

Pix.

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