Subj : Re: Net2BBS
To   : NICK ANDRE
From : Marceline Jones
Date : Sun Mar 14 2021 05:09 pm

 NA> D'Bridge must first be told that when it runs to assume that a caller
 NA> is "on the line" and to exit when the call completes. So you create a
 NA> dummy semaphore file called LINE1.OTL in the DB directory.

Ah ok. 

You are running D'Bridge like a door. 

That is cheating :)

 NA> Start Net2BBS, test by telnetting locally. Net2BBS should spawn
 NA> DBRUN.CMD  which loads D'Bridge. In your telnet session you see the
 NA> D'Bridge logo followed by "Press ESC twice to access the BBS". Doing so
 NA> will swap the mailer out to execute whatever commands you specified.
 NA> When the BBS terminates, the  session returns to the mailer which at
 NA> this point has sensed "dropped carrier" and thus terminates back to
 NA> DBRUN... which exits.

Why cannot Net2BBS just pass the raw connection to D'Bridge WFC mode ? is it because the author wants to sell NetSerial instead ?

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