Subj : Re: Current MS-DOS
To   : Jikey
From : Dennisk
Date : Sat May 23 2020 11:04:00

-=> Jikey wrote to Dennisk <=-

 Ji> Hi!

 Ji> In addition to MTCP and Telnet, I was using RLFossil to take incoming
 Ji> calls to some test DOS BBS setups and it worked great. I never thought
 Ji> I would find ANYTHING that would provide inbound telnet for DOS BBSing
 Ji> but there it was, waiting for me to find it :-)

 Ji> I agree with you, running an older version of Linux doesn't feel like
 Ji> anything special, but DOS certainly does.

 Ji> Looking back at the older versions of some of the BBS software out
 Ji> there, it seems the prime year for addons/doors was around 1993. While
 Ji> it is difficult to
 Ji>  license the older stuff these days, it's still out there.

 Ji> Thanks,
 Ji> Dean.

A DOS BBS sounds interesting, but the single tasking nature of DOS kills off
the idea for me.  I'm toying with the idea of a private BBS, but I would only
use Linux for that.  I only wanted mTCP because I couldn't get the MS
Networking Client to connect to Samaba.  Apparently it is supposed to work, but
no configuration I tried got it working.  I didn't want to use floppies to
transfer, because they are unreliable now and I found read errors where it
seemed to write on the other machine OK.  I tried LapLink over serial, but its
slow, and I forgot how to use it.

mTCP solved the problem, I could FTP files across.  Works decently, but
requires you to transfer an archive over then, unpack, which isn't always
desirable of feasible, especially when backing a system up.  EtherDFS came to
the rescue here.

The fact I could telnet into BBS's from DOS was a nice bonus, but apart from
the experience of seeing them on an old 14 inch CRT again, hmm.

I've been playing with Mystic, and it seems that any program you write can be a
"door".

.... Dennis Katsonis
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