Way ahead of you my friend, log in as user B4BBS of CHIMPY and you get directed to my bulletin board, called B4BBS.
It's even got a working Fidonet feed!
Oh and ANSI backgammon. I LOVE ANSI backgammon.
Sampsa
On 1 Jul 2009, at 17:41, Joshua Benedetto wrote:
Dial in you say? hmmmmm time for some old school BBS :)
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Sampsa Laine<sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
Oh and I'll be moving house soon, upgrading my DSL line to a bonded 40 meg
down / 3 meg up dealie. This will give me two spare BT lines that we could
use for some kind of dial up retro goodness - I'm open to suggestions...
Sampsa
On 1 Jul 2009, at 16:22, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Which I assume is a good thing?
BTW, I'm toying with hacking together a Fidonet - HECnet gateway. How easy
is it to get mail in and out of VMS mail using say DCL?
Sampsa
On 1 Jul 2009, at 16:21, Bob Armstrong wrote:
Or am I misunderstanding something?
There are multiple routes now between Johnny's world and the Multinet
world...
Bob
Got any documentation for this API?
Ideally I'd want to somehow "hook" into the MAIL application in the same way as TCP/IP does, i.e. to send an smtp message you prepend SMTP% to the recipient, I would love to be able to use an address like:
FIDO%"John Q Public at 1:123/4.5"
How painful would this be to do (the hooking into the MAIL part and parsing, I'll worry about the Fidonet encodings etc myself)?
Sampsa
On 1 Jul 2009, at 16:35, Bob Armstrong wrote:
How easy is it to get mail in and out of VMS mail using say DCL?
Sending is pretty easy, but reading it would require you to do some
parsing (which, of course, can be done).
But there is an API for VMS mail and it'd be easier to write a program to
do it instead (unless you really want to prove that you can do it in DCL)...
Bob
Dial in you say? hmmmmm time for some old school BBS :)
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Sampsa Laine<sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
Oh and I'll be moving house soon, upgrading my DSL line to a bonded 40 meg
down / 3 meg up dealie. This will give me two spare BT lines that we could
use for some kind of dial up retro goodness - I'm open to suggestions...
Sampsa
On 1 Jul 2009, at 16:22, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Which I assume is a good thing?
BTW, I'm toying with hacking together a Fidonet - HECnet gateway. How easy
is it to get mail in and out of VMS mail using say DCL?
Sampsa
On 1 Jul 2009, at 16:21, Bob Armstrong wrote:
Or am I misunderstanding something?
There are multiple routes now between Johnny's world and the Multinet
world...
Bob
Yes, it is a good thing. A couple years ago when Chrissie was down for a
while, HECnet was effectivelly split into two segments.
Zane
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Which I assume is a good thing?
BTW, I'm toying with hacking together a Fidonet - HECnet gateway. How easy is it to get mail in and out of VMS mail using say DCL?
Sampsa
On 1 Jul 2009, at 16:21, Bob Armstrong wrote:
Or am I misunderstanding something?
There are multiple routes now between Johnny's world and the Multinet
world...
Bob
How easy is it to get mail in and out of VMS mail using say DCL?
Sending is pretty easy, but reading it would require you to do some
parsing (which, of course, can be done).
But there is an API for VMS mail and it'd be easier to write a program to
do it instead (unless you really want to prove that you can do it in DCL)...
Bob
Oh and I'll be moving house soon, upgrading my DSL line to a bonded 40 meg down / 3 meg up dealie. This will give me two spare BT lines that we could use for some kind of dial up retro goodness - I'm open to suggestions...
Sampsa
On 1 Jul 2009, at 16:22, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Which I assume is a good thing?
BTW, I'm toying with hacking together a Fidonet - HECnet gateway. How easy is it to get mail in and out of VMS mail using say DCL?
Sampsa
On 1 Jul 2009, at 16:21, Bob Armstrong wrote:
Or am I misunderstanding something?
There are multiple routes now between Johnny's world and the Multinet
world...
Bob
Which I assume is a good thing?
BTW, I'm toying with hacking together a Fidonet - HECnet gateway. How easy is it to get mail in and out of VMS mail using say DCL?
Sampsa
On 1 Jul 2009, at 16:21, Bob Armstrong wrote:
Or am I misunderstanding something?
There are multiple routes now between Johnny's world and the Multinet
world...
Bob
At 8:21 AM -0700 7/1/09, Bob Armstrong wrote:
>Or am I misunderstanding something?
There are multiple routes now between Johnny's world and the Multinet
world...
Okay, things are a bit more robust than they were a couple years ago. I'm glad to hear that.
Zane
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| healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
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Well I've got a connection from 2.1 (LEGATO) coming over a MULTINET tunnel to GORVAX which is on Johnny's bridged network.
Or am I misunderstanding something?
Sampsa
On 1 Jul 2009, at 15:17, Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 7:27 AM +0100 7/1/09, Chrissie Caulfield wrote:
I'll be on holiday for a few days, so Zaphod will be offline until at
least Friday 10th July. Maybe a little longer if I forget to switch him
back on again ;-)
Chrissie,
Are you the only routing area between the Multinet segments and the segments using Johnny's bridge at the moment?
We finally got the house about a month and a half ago. So I'm now sitting on a 20/5 "Commercial Grade" FIOS line, but have yet to get any of my servers online. I'm afraid the odds are you'll be back online before I can get any of my servers up. I still have to find all the cables for them, and sort out cooling. :-(
Zane
--
| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
