Subj : BBS waiting for caller
To   : Janis Kracht
From : Alan Ianson
Date : Tue Oct 16 2018 02:00 pm

Hi Janis,

>>I am setting up BBBS and I can't remember how to access the waiting for calle
>> mode for use with tcpip. I read in the sysop.txt to run BBBS with the TCPIP
>> device but ./bbbs TCPIP doesn't seem to work.

> Ok, for TCPIP on my
> node 2, I use this in my scripts:
> ==============cut here===========
> #!/bin/sh
> while :
> do
> cd /home/bbbs
> ./bbbs 1 2 /dev/ttyS1 "uid":bbs
> # see note below about above line
> RC=$?
> echo BBBS RC: $RC
> if [ $RC = 137 ]; then
> exit
> fi
> if [ $RC = 0 ]; then
> exit
> fi
> reset
> done
> ==========cut here=====

Thanks, I'm going to borrow your script.. :)

I don't have a modem here so I can't use /dev/ttyS1 here. When I tried running
BBBS it tries and fails to initialize the modem then quits so I need a way to
start BBBS without a modem.

--- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-3
 * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757.1)

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