Re: A2 BBS via Mac serial connection

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

Can you telnet to the BBS?  What's the address?


"Smohn Jith" <khorster@optonline.net> wrote in message 
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>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 
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>> 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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