Re: Boycot BBS support request :)

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

What was going on when the BBS crashed?


"Simon Williams" <email@DELETE_THIS.luddite.no-ip.com> wrote in message 
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> Terry Olsen <tolsen64@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm not familiar with anything on a Mac.  The first thing I'd try is to 
>> set
>> the emulation to TTY, get rid of all the extraneous stuff and see how you
>> fare.  Once you have a stable way of getting on, then you can play with 
>> the
>> other stuff.
>
> Okay, I finally managed to get it going. The problem (apparently) is
> that ProTerm for Macintosh doesn't like the ":9999" as part of the host
> address (neither does the Terminal in OSX). I tried the ancient NCSA
> Telnet app, which does allow you to set the port number seperately from
> the host name and it worked fine... until the BBS crashed [sorry!]
>
> Anyway, nice to see that HANGMAN is still there :)
>
> -s