Hello Alan!   
      
   16 Oct 2018 14:00, Alan Ianson wrote to Janis Kracht:   
      
    AI> 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   
      
   move that line outside of while do ... done   
      
   it will not need to be done every time after /bin/sh its should work   
      
    >> ./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   
      
   can this 2 if not be combined ?   
      
    >> reset   
    >> done   
    >> ==========cut here=====   
      
    AI> Thanks, I'm going to borrow your script.. :)   
      
   i dont need it, but i can share opensource aswell   
      
    AI> I don't have a modem here so I can't use /dev/ttyS1 here. When I tried    
    AI> running BBBS it tries and fails to initialize the modem then quits so I   
   need a    
    AI> way to start BBBS without a modem.   
      
   i gave op with modems under linux long time ago, it was to complicated compared   
    to how simple it was in amiga os   
      
   is this echomail a z1 echomail only, sorry then :)   
      
      
    Regards Benny   
      
   ... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)   
      
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