Subj : Re: Tiny BBS for DOS?
To   : sPINOZa
From : Spectre
Date : Sat Oct 15 2022 07:05:00

 sP> Are you able to connect to frontdoor and load the bbs up in combination
 sP> with RLFOSSIL ? At my site it drops the carrier, which I think is
 sP> logical, but I just would like to know for sure.

I'm not sure what you're getting at. However if it answers your question I'll
have a go anyways.  I found rlfossil to be a bit pedantic on how it will run.

I actually have a seperate VM running FrontDoor, so that's its only job, its
not actually accepting incoming "calls".  I left the BBS nodes to handle the
incoming connects.

Originally I had trouble getting FD to work at all. It'd load report no
fossil and shut up shop.  I ended up loading rlfossil from autoexec and
having to call the appropriate batch file from the command line otherwise it
seems to unload itself.  I suspect it I rewrote the batch files at this point
so each node had an FD install at the front it'd probably be workable.  But
given it works the way it is, I'm not in a hurry to try it the other way
around.

I don't know what BBS software you're using, but for FD to work as the front
end you need to tell the BBS that the fossil is hot and online when you load
it.  For me with SuperBBS this is... bbs.exe -B 19200 or whatever other speed
its configured for. Whatever yours may be will vary.  If you just try and run
the BBS as a normal startup first thing it'll try and do is initialise the
fossil again and hang it up.

Spec


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