Yup, Fidonet is still around, still some traffic on the echos even. I get my feed from http://www.easternstar.info/ (I LOVE that website, so 1994).
Until then you can of course get echo/netmail through my BBS :)
Sampsa
On 21 Aug 2008, at 16:21, Bob Armstrong wrote:
I've added a second guest account, B4BBS, that connects to my bulletin
board.
Some games (main menu option X) and Fidonet echos are available :)
I'm kinda out of touch here - is Fidonet still alive? I thought that
disappeared ages ago.
My wife used to administer a Fidonet node; if Fidonet is still around
she'll really want to try it out.
Bob
I've added a second guest account, B4BBS, that connects to my bulletin
board.
Some games (main menu option X) and Fidonet echos are available :)
I'm kinda out of touch here - is Fidonet still alive? I thought that
disappeared ages ago.
My wife used to administer a Fidonet node; if Fidonet is still around
she'll really want to try it out.
Bob
Well the ANSI backgammon is pretty kick ass..
Sampsa
On 21 Aug 2008, at 16:13, Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 1:01 PM +0100 8/21/08, Sampsa Laine wrote:
I've added a second guest account, B4BBS, that connects to my bulletin board.
Some games (main menu option X) and Fidonet echos are available :)
You're trying to convince me to get my DECnet router back up and running aren't you...
Zane
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| 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/ |
At 1:01 PM +0100 8/21/08, Sampsa Laine wrote:
I've added a second guest account, B4BBS, that connects to my bulletin board.
Some games (main menu option X) and Fidonet echos are available :)
You're trying to convince me to get my DECnet router back up and running aren't you...
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/ |
Yeah, did that earlier, Chrissie suggested it over the IRC, it works now.
Sampsa
On 21 Aug 2008, at 15:22, Marc Chametzky wrote:
I'm also trying to add a gateway (i.e. TELNET out) to my BBS via a captive account, but keep getting the following error:
%SYSTEM-W-NODEVAVL, no device available
%SMG-F-INVPAS_ID, invalid pasteboard-id
I'm not positive, but I bet that one of your logicals isn't quite right inside a command procedure.
I *think* what you want is, before you run the command that's giving that error:
$ DEFINE/USER SYS$INPUT SYS$COMMAND
By default, SYS$INPUT refers to the command procedure itself, and that's not a valid source for SMG$ operations. This would redirect the input for the next run program to SYS$COMMAND which should be the controlling terminal.
--Marc
I'm also trying to add a gateway (i.e. TELNET out) to my BBS via a captive account, but keep getting the following error:
%SYSTEM-W-NODEVAVL, no device available
%SMG-F-INVPAS_ID, invalid pasteboard-id
I'm not positive, but I bet that one of your logicals isn't quite right inside a command procedure.
I *think* what you want is, before you run the command that's giving that error:
$ DEFINE/USER SYS$INPUT SYS$COMMAND
By default, SYS$INPUT refers to the command procedure itself, and that's not a valid source for SMG$ operations. This would redirect the input for the next run program to SYS$COMMAND which should be the controlling terminal.
--Marc
Hi again,
I've added a second guest account, B4BBS, that connects to my bulletin board.
Some games (main menu option X) and Fidonet echos are available :)
Sampsa
I'm also trying to add a gateway (i.e. TELNET out) to my BBS via a captive account, but keep getting the following error:
%SYSTEM-W-NODEVAVL, no device available
%SMG-F-INVPAS_ID, invalid pasteboard-id
Any ideas?
Sampsa
On 21 Aug 2008, at 12:25, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Sampsa Laine wrote:
Guys,
I've added a captive account to run a Tetris clone on CHIMPY, login TETRIS, no password needed.
Well, I don't think I have any TETRIS around, but MIM::SYS$GAMES: contains several fun programs, such as PACMAN (PAC.TSK), EMPIRE, ADVENTURE and DUNGEON.
There are some other fun programs there as well...
Johnny
Sampsa Laine wrote:
Guys,
I've added a captive account to run a Tetris clone on CHIMPY, login TETRIS, no password needed.
Well, I don't think I have any TETRIS around, but MIM::SYS$GAMES: contains several fun programs, such as PACMAN (PAC.TSK), EMPIRE, ADVENTURE and DUNGEON.
There are some other fun programs there as well...
Johnny
