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TCP-Group Digest            Wed,  9 Mar 94       Volume 94 : Issue   63

Today's Topics:
                 Food For Thought -- The BBS Network

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Date: Tue, 8 Mar 94 9:42:17 CST
From: andyw@aspen.cray.com (Andy Warner)
Subject: Food For Thought -- The BBS Network
To: tcp-group@ucsd.edu (TCP Group)

Brian wrote:
> [...]
> To that end, I've developed a set of patches to Anders' mailbox code
> that simply opens a telnet session to a pre-defined host and port when
> you connect to NOS with AX.25 or Net/rom.  Presumably that telnet
> destination is a BBS-like object running on a Lunix or BSDI or Sun or
> some other multi-tasking system box.  Phil has those patches; I guess I
> can make them available as soon as I remember where I stored them.
> [...]

We've been running a similar set of patches here locally for over 18
months or so now (developed by N0BEL). His stuff maybe went a bit
further, by allowing outgoing connections to have arbitrary callsigns
(used by a KA-Node emulator). If anyone wants the code, just ask.

-- 
andyw. N0REN/G1XRL

andyw@aspen.cray.com Andy Warner, Cray Research, Inc. (612) 683-5835

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