Re: A2 BBS via Mac serial connection

["Smohn Jith" <khorster@optonline.net>]

I currently have my //gs connected to the internet via an old Cisco Router. 
You can reverse telnet to it directly through a port.  Works flawlessly.  I 
also don't have to have 2 computers running at once.  The router has a 
serial port and an RJ45 so it's basically, plug and then configure, which is 
a little tricky....

Transfer have worked, although transfers through telnet depend on timeouts 
and if you have a bad connection Xmodem/Ymodem don't work.  Kermit is 
supposed to be better, but I'm running a test METAL based BBS which doesn't 
have Kermit.

"Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
2u70alF26kemqU1@uni-berlin.de">news:2u70alF26kemqU1@uni-berlin.de...
> 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 
> news:1gm821o.92oysqbzparkN%email@DELETE_THIS.luddite.no-ip.com...
>> 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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