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Anonymous
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2001-12-05
Thank you.
As a former sysop, using the DOS based Frontdoor mailer, Fmail Tosser and SuperBBS (SBBS) software, my thoughts, on the subject of a modern-day counterpoint to the previous BBS system, are to maintain compatibility with the FTN standards on the one hand and to add the ability to work with x-terminals and the tcp/ip suite of protocols.
There exists software that enables Windoze boxes to emulate an x-terminal. This would permit the user a level of graphics above that of ASCII/ANSI or RIP of the DOS boxes.
The ability to use a web browser interface and ppp should also be integrated.
Most of what I would see in a bbs is already available in pieces and snippets here and there. A suite of managers to co-ordinate and enhance those existing programs is the way I would proceed if my talents in programming were up to the task.
As there is little else of a description on this project, I thought that some comments of this nature might open the ball.
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ppp service could be provided by the standard pppd. Web browsers could be in the form of lynx or w3m.
I was also thinking of a Mozilla/Firefox addon as an interface in order to provide a view that has a system-native appearance. (Looks like XP under XP, looks like GTK under Linux, etc.)
Under the Linux console, the choice between ANSI or xterm (or VT100 or VT320) is typically handled by by the curses library. A set of instructions including text placement and coloring is provided that is automatically translated to whatever the connecting terminal supports.
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Thank you.
As a former sysop, using the DOS based Frontdoor mailer, Fmail Tosser and SuperBBS (SBBS) software, my thoughts, on the subject of a modern-day counterpoint to the previous BBS system, are to maintain compatibility with the FTN standards on the one hand and to add the ability to work with x-terminals and the tcp/ip suite of protocols.
There exists software that enables Windoze boxes to emulate an x-terminal. This would permit the user a level of graphics above that of ASCII/ANSI or RIP of the DOS boxes.
The ability to use a web browser interface and ppp should also be integrated.
Most of what I would see in a bbs is already available in pieces and snippets here and there. A suite of managers to co-ordinate and enhance those existing programs is the way I would proceed if my talents in programming were up to the task.
As there is little else of a description on this project, I thought that some comments of this nature might open the ball.
ppp service could be provided by the standard pppd. Web browsers could be in the form of lynx or w3m.
I was also thinking of a Mozilla/Firefox addon as an interface in order to provide a view that has a system-native appearance. (Looks like XP under XP, looks like GTK under Linux, etc.)
Under the Linux console, the choice between ANSI or xterm (or VT100 or VT320) is typically handled by by the curses library. A set of instructions including text placement and coloring is provided that is automatically translated to whatever the connecting terminal supports.
Quick question. What's FTN?