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|    Charles Stephenson to Mike Powell    |
|    Linux & Modems    |
|    26 May 19 07:22:18    |
      TZUTC: -0400       MSGID: 8.fidonetlinux@1:226/17 214facf2       REPLY: 6480.fi-linux@1:2320/105 214d564c       PID: Synchronet 3.17c-Linux May 18 2019 GCC 8.3.0       TID: SBBSecho 3.07-Linux r3.114 May 18 2019 GCC 8.3.0        Re: Linux & Modems        By: Mike Powell to CHARLES STEPHENSON on Fri May 24 2019 10:54 am               MP> I did not have to do anything to my kernel. I did have to hook up a USB to        MP> serial conversion cable to get my USR Sportster to work. Then all I had to        MP> do was tell sexpots which device to listen to. Sexpots answers the modem        MP> and then makes the telnet connection to the board, connecting the modem        MP> call to my dosemu session that runs my DOS bbs.               MP> I set the device in the sexpots.ini file. For my system, it        MP> is /dev/ttyUSB0.              I have sexpots configured, I have my VOIP configured with a phone number (from       my Google voice), I'll have to ad that /dev/ttyUSB0 as the dev that points to       my modem. I can't remember how to redirect it to /dev/modem. I'll have to       google that....       Regards,        KrUpTiOn       --- SBBSecho 3.07-Linux        * Origin: The New Frontier ][ BBS(frontierbbs.net) - [Ohio] (1:226/17)       SEEN-BY: 1/17 123 2/105 15/2 100/22 109 226/17 229/275 354 426 452       SEEN-BY: 229/616 1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400 280/464 292/854 300/0       SEEN-BY: 300/1 317/3 322/757 342/200 393/68 411/38 500/13 633/280       SEEN-BY: 3828/7       PATH: 226/17 229/426           |
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