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|    Message 9,288 of 10,398    |
|    Marceline Jones to NICK ANDRE    |
|    Re: Net2BBS    |
|    14 Mar 21 17:09:00    |
      TZUTC: -0800       MSGID: 17450.dbridge@1:103/705 24b32b55       REPLY: 1:229/426 DAAD8F63       PID: Synchronet 3.19a-Win32 new_file_base/cea997c50 Mar 13 2021 MSC 1928       TID: SBBSecho 3.13-Linux new_file_base/824e987d3 Mar 13 2021 GCC 8.3.0       BBSID: VERT       CHRS: ASCII 1        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 ?              ___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30       --- SBBSecho 3.13-Linux        * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 103/705 105/81 114/709 120/340 123/131 124/5016       SEEN-BY: 129/305 154/10 203/0 218/700 221/0 226/30 227/114 702 229/101       SEEN-BY: 229/424 426 428 550 664 1016 1017 240/1120 5138 5411 5824       SEEN-BY: 240/5832 5853 249/1 206 317 400 280/464 5003 282/1038 292/854       SEEN-BY: 292/8125 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 423/120 633/280       SEEN-BY: 2452/250 2454/119       PATH: 103/705 280/464 240/5832 229/426           |
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