Subj : Re: BBS client of choice
To   : paulie420
From : Weatherman
Date : Wed Aug 19 2020 01:50:00

-=> paulie420 wrote to Weatherman <=-

 We> (believe it or don't) PETSCII in 40 and 80 column modes!

 pa> Great point... I use this feature, by calling ImageBBS boards and they
 pa> almost like... HAVE to be viewed in 40col. They are an awesome
 pa> experience if you didn't use them back in the day, too. (Or, if you
 pa> DID. Lol.)

My roots lie with the VIC-20, the C64 and the C128D.  As a matter of fact, I've
been playing with the concept of adding a C64 BBS to the mix, but have run into
some really miserable issues.  Mainly my problem is that I don't have any way
of moving files from my Linux box to the C128.  Anything I can download FOR the
C64/C128 is in a .d64 format which I have no problem downloading to my PC, but
once it's there I have no way to move it to the Commodore stuff.  One would
suggest "just make a network connection and transfer it that way."  Yeah, that
doesn't work well at all.  Seems that while I have a WiModem device, which
allows my Commodore computer to utilize telnet BBSes. None of the file transfer
protocols that the PC and the Commodore have in common (and I'm specifically
talking about XModem and Ymodem) seem to want to work worth a shit.  It's been
a real headache, I'm  telling you. 

 pa> I like Paradroyd's install instructions if you have any ubuntu flavor,
 pa> or raspberry pi... Just remember to
 pa> sudo apt install build-essential libncurses-dev libncursesw5-dev
 pa> and follow Paradroyd's install @

Anyway, I figured I'd post the script for installing SyncTerm.  Here's the one
I use and it seems to work on just about any decent distro of Linux...  This is
strictly for Linux and right now I can't remember who wrote it, but they did a
hell of a good job on it...

#!/bin/bash

# To Install apps/libraries used to compile
echo "Preparing to install relevant libraries..."
sudo apt-get install wget libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev gcc libsdl1.2-dev

# To Pull source
echo "About to download the syncterm application source..."
wget http://syncterm.bbsdev.net/syncterm-src.tgz

# To extract tgz file
echo "Extracting the source now..."
tar xvzf syncterm-src.tgz

# Change directory to
echo "Change into the 'make' folder"
cd syncterm-$(date +%Y%m%d)/src/syncterm

# To get full path src
echo "Set st_path variable for the SRC_ROOT path..."
st_path=$(pwd | sed 's/\/syncterm$//g')

# Time to compile!
echo "Make SRC_ROOT with path: $st_path"
sudo make SRC_ROOT=$st_path

# Install SyncTerm
echo "Install SyncTERM..."
sudo make install

# Find out where Syncterm was installed
echo "Find out where SyncTERM installed"
which syncterm



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