• FSXNet Global Oneliners?

    From Shurato@21:2/148 to All on Friday, November 17, 2023 10:14:00
    Is there a door for this that will work on all DOS/Win32 BBSes? I'm looking
    to install an IBBS Oneliners door and was pointed to this option on FSXNet.
    I was hoping this would be the proper place to ask.

    ---
    Shurato, Sysop Shurato's Heavenly Sphere (ssh, telnet, pop3, ftp,nntp)
    (ports 22, 23, 110, 21, 119) (ssh: login bbs password shsbbs)


    *** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]
    ---
    * Origin: Shurato's Heavenly Sphere telnet://shsbbs.net (21:2/148)
  • From Atreyu@21:1/176 to Shurato on Friday, November 17, 2023 15:04:40
    On 17 Nov 23 10:14:00, Shurato said the following to All:

    Is there a door for this that will work on all DOS/Win32 BBSes? I'm looking to install an IBBS Oneliners door and was pointed to this option on FSXNet. I was hoping this would be the proper place to ask.

    I would love to write a simple one if there's not a decent one around...

    Atreyu

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (21:1/176)
  • From Shurato@21:2/148 to Atreyu on Saturday, November 18, 2023 18:39:00

    On 17 Nov 23 10:14:00, Shurato said the following to All:

    Is there a door for this that will work on all DOS/Win32 BBSes? I'm
    looking
    to install an IBBS Oneliners door and was pointed to this option on
    FSXNet.
    I was hoping this would be the proper place to ask.

    I would love to write a simple one if there's not a decent one around...

    I wouldnt' know where to look. All of my resources are ancient, and this is something relatively new. What is available for non-specific BBS software? Atreyu, if you're willing to write one that would be great!

    ---
    Shurato, Sysop Shurato's Heavenly Sphere (ssh, telnet, pop3, ftp,nntp)
    (ports 22, 23, 110, 21, 119) (ssh: login bbs password shsbbs)


    *** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]
    ---
    * Origin: Shurato's Heavenly Sphere telnet://shsbbs.net (21:2/148)
  • From Apam@21:1/182 to Shurato on Sunday, November 19, 2023 12:32:27
    BY: Shurato (21:2/148)

    |11S|09> |10Is there a door for this that will work on all DOS/Win32 BBSes? I'm|07
    |11S|09> |10looking|07
    |11S|09> |10to install an IBBS Oneliners door and was pointed to this option on|07
    |11S|09> |10FSXNet.|07
    |11S|09> |10I was hoping this would be the proper place to ask.|07

    There is not, the reason is it uses message bases to pass messages between the BBS systems. Originally it was mystic only, then some have written mods for other bbses.

    As different BBS systems use different message base formats it makes writing a generic door a bit difficult. I suppose you could focus on Squish and JAM, but that leaves out quiet a few as well.

    Andrew

    --- WWIV 5.9.0.development[NetBSD]
    * Origin: Cabinet of Curiosities - WWIV on NetBSD! (21:1/182)
  • From Tiny@21:1/222 to Apam on Sunday, November 19, 2023 07:56:03
    writing a generic door a bit difficult. I suppose you could focus on
    Squish and JAM, but that leaves out quiet a few as well.

    I think Squish, Jam and *.MSG would be the way to go. Heck maybe even
    *.MSG only as most of the old DOS BBSes would support that. I miss the
    old one that ran on the internet somehow. I wrote a generic door for
    that as it just had to connect to the internet grab the info and dispaly
    it.

    Shawn

    --- Talisman v0.47-dev (Windows/x86)
    * Origin: Tiny's BBS - tinysbbs.com:4323/ssh:4322 (21:1/222)
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Apam on Sunday, November 19, 2023 07:11:00
    Apam wrote to Shurato <=-

    As different BBS systems use different message base formats it makes writing a generic door a bit difficult. I suppose you could focus on Squish and JAM, but that leaves out quiet a few as well.

    Yeah, the only regret I have with Synchronet is the lack of third party support. When I ran Maximus and Squish, there were numerous utilities
    out there to do reporting, mail munging, and online message editors like
    MSGED and TIMED. No such support for Synchronet's format.

    Then again, traffic is low now. I don't rightly need to have some of the
    tools I needed when I was getting 70-80 calls a day.





    ... What is the simplest solution?
    --- MultiMail/Win v0.52
    * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122)
  • From Shurato@21:2/148 to Apam on Monday, November 20, 2023 04:51:00

    BY: Shurato (21:2/148)

    Is there a door for this that will work on all DOS/Win32
    BBSes? I'm
    looking to install an IBBS Oneliners door and was pointed
    to this
    option on
    FSXNet. I was hoping this would be the proper place to
    ask.

    There is not, the reason is it uses message bases to pass messages between the BBS systems. Originally it was mystic only, then some have written mods for other bbses.

    As different BBS systems use different message base formats it makes writing a generic door a bit difficult. I suppose you could focus on Squish and JAM, but that leaves out quiet a few as well.

    Ok, thanks! Yeah, I use EleBBS/Win32 which supports Hudson, JAM and Squish
    as well as *.MSG. What about bbslink's 1liner? Does that use a web site and curl, or message bases as well?

    ---
    Shurato, Sysop Shurato's Heavenly Sphere (ssh, telnet, pop3, ftp,nntp)
    (ports 22, 23, 110, 21, 119) (ssh: login bbs password shsbbs)


    *** THE READER V4.50 [freeware]
    ---
    * Origin: Shurato's Heavenly Sphere telnet://shsbbs.net (21:2/148)
  • From Roon@21:4/148 to poindexter FORTRAN on Tuesday, November 21, 2023 00:09:22
    Hello poindexter,

    19 Nov 23 07:11, you wrote to Apam:

    As different BBS systems use different message base formats it
    makes writing a generic door a bit difficult. I suppose you could
    focus on Squish and JAM, but that leaves out quiet a few as well.

    Yeah, the only regret I have with Synchronet is the lack of third
    party support. When I ran Maximus and Squish, there were numerous utilities out there to do reporting, mail munging, and online message editors like MSGED and TIMED. No such support for Synchronet's format.

    Then again, traffic is low now. I don't rightly need to have some of
    the tools I needed when I was getting 70-80 calls a day.

    i've wrote myself a fsxnet oneliner/lastcaller door under os/2 for my maximus.

    Maximus' MEX and under the hood it's a big mess of spaghetti code of php, batch files, with gnu utilities like sed, cat, ls, etc.. plus utilities like SendMSG/2 and MX (a message extraction util for Squish).

    it would be much authentic to write it in REXX instead of php+gnu utils, but my REXX knowledge is small for this.

    Regards,
    --
    dp

    telnet://bbs.roonsbbs.hu:1212 <<=-

    ... Uptime: 0d 12h 37m 38s
    --- GoldED/2 1.1.4.7+EMX
    * Origin: Roon's BBS - Budapest, HUNGARY (21:4/148)
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Roon on Tuesday, November 21, 2023 07:20:00
    Roon wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    it would be much authentic to write it in REXX instead of php+gnu
    utils, but my REXX knowledge is small for this.

    REXX was/is pretty powerful. My first gig was working at a retail/mail
    order shop with 120 stores. We used an OS/2 dial-up WAN with DOS and
    OS/2 cash registers. They'd call into the hub, transfer sales and
    payroll information, and be sent new PLU files and information. It was
    total deja vu, feeling very much like Fido technology - I'd just started
    my BBS at the time.

    At night, the stores would shut down, and a REXX script running the registers would do all of the maintenance, poll corporate, and process the files
    it'd received - again, very much like a DOS BBS.

    The DOS batch file was huge, the REXX file less than half the size.




    ... All of my certifications are self-signed.
    --- MultiMail/Win v0.52
    * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122)