Re: A2 BBS via Mac serial connection

["Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com>]

Actually, the java applet on the web site was a telnet app.  Your idea 
sounds interesting though.  I'd like to see what that would look like.  So 
you would throw whatever comes back from the BBS out on a web page, have a 
text box & submit button to send instructions back to the BBS...what an 
interesing idea.

I'm currently working on an app in VB 2005 to get the BBS back online again. 
I think that with the new VB (any .NET variety) allowing you to send the 
data through in "byte arrays" instead of text only, I might be able to see 
file transfers directly to/from the BBS to the client... I just gotta figure 
out how to correctly do the SocketListener part of the app (which means 
learning about threading, delegates, callbacks, etc.).  I think that once I 
get the "server" app done, then a "client" app will be pretty 
easy...allowing you to connect your apple to your pc via serial port and 
call out via telnet to a BBS (and even transfer files via X/Y/Zmodem) 
directly between the two apples.


"Simon Williams" <email@DELETE_THIS.luddite.no-ip.com> wrote in message 
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> I've been thinking about the possibility of accessing a BBS program
> running on my IIgs via a serial (null modem) link to my Macintosh web
> server. It seems like a conceptually simple matter to have a cgi script
> that would communicate with the BBS and convert the output to html
> documents. I seem to recall Boycot BBS had something similar going on
> (though the (java?)script was running on a PC)...
>
> anyone have any ideas / suggestions?
>
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