Walt- if you're still at 10909, I ave it- will send it . All of it- gives me another empty folder in the cabinet. I hope it is the one you want. Bill-W4BSG
At 12:00 PM 7/14/2006 -0500, you wrote: >Hello Bill, > >WOW!!! > >Yes, I would love to have a copy. I lost my copy years ago...I had it on >tape and then a big floppy and then lost it. I ran the BBS program on a >Radio Shack M100 "laptop" and later on an IBM PC Clone with two 5 1/4" >floppy drives. > >After I started running Linux, I converted the program to run on Linux and >use SMTP. It ran along the lines of the original KA9Q NOS and Bdale Mailer. >I later added more SMTP functions from "sendmail" with the help of Bob >Tracy. > >I have long ago lost all of that material but would love to take a stab and >rewriting it in C++. I am retiring soon and would love to work that project >again. > >The beauty of the idea was that you could make the program identity anything >you wanted to...than came in the RD-232 Port. Of course today you would use >the internal bus...instead of passing the detected data to the screen or >file, pass it to the "BBS" program via the bus. Building routing tables >like some of the JNOS and RLI BBS applications had is easy and dumping >manual inputs to an MTA or automatic inputs to an MTA is simple. > >Do you have my mailing address? > >Walt/K5YFW > > >-----Original Message----- >From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 4:52 PM >To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com >Subject: Re: [digitalradio] BBS Program in Basic > > > >Walt- for what it's worth- I have an actual printed copy of a BBS program >written in IBM basic. It is yours, if you will promise an honest effort to >get it running. I swear to you that the version I have DID WORK when I >printed out this copy. (On an 8-pin,Dot Matrix Printer.) It queried COM1 at >300 baud and participated in two-way communication with a Packet BBS. >(Normally unmanned, at the BBS end) >At this time, I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole. You need to >remember: >Basic was an interpretive language, hence s-l-o-w. Each line of code was >broken up, interpreted for machine language equivalence, and executed. (For >a subroutine, this was repeated each time it was invoked) In order to use a >subroutine, it first had to be found, which BASIC did by starting at the >first line of code, reading the number of the line, to see if it was the >desired one, and continuing until it found the right line. (It did remember >the line number to return to.) >It is a Bulletin-Board-System, not a keyboard-to-keyboard, two-way >exchange, as we have gotten used to. Each message was stored at the BBS >for reading and forwarding. As a BBS, it relies on an infrastructure of >similarly timed and sequenced equipment at the other end. >If you find someone really interested, I will cheer them on, but (in my >eightieth year) not participate much, or very reliably) >Have fun- Bill-W4BSG > >At 09:01 AM 6/29/2006 -0500, you wrote: > > > >A of years ago, there was a BBS program written in Standard Basic that read > >the RS-232 data buss. You could feed it text from a TNC, RTTY or ASCII > >demodulator or even connect a modem to it. > > > >What the system did was recognize the text > >"K5YFW > W5ABC CONNECT W5ABC KN<lf/cr>". > > > >When it saw the text, it opened a session with W5ABC and replied > >"K5YFW > W5ABC CONNECTED W5ABC KN"<lf/cr>. > > > >For Messages, K5YFW sent > >"K5YFW > W5ABC MAIL for WB5WXY KN"<lf/cr>. > >W5ABC sent > >"W5ABC > K5YFW SEND MAIL KN"<lf/cr>. > > > > > >Then K5YFW would send the following... > >"K5YFW > W5ABC <lf/cr> > ><lf/cr> > >DATE: 29 Jul 06/08:46 CDT<lf/cr> > >TO: WB5WXY<lf/cr> > >CC:<lf/cr> > >SUBJ: Test Mail<lf/cr> > ><lf/cr> > >This is a test E-Mail via the W5ABC BBS<lf/cr> > ><lf/cr> > >nnnn<lf/cr> > ><lf/cr> > >.<lf/cr> > >AR > >K5YFW > W5ABC KN" > > > >Then W5ABC would send... > > > >"W5ABC > K5YFW<lf/cr> > >"FINISHED?"<lf/cr> > >W5ABC > K5YFW KN<lf/cr>" > > > >If K5YFW was fisished, it sent... > >"K5YFW > W5ABC<lf/cr> > >CLOSE<lf/cr> > >K5YFW > W5ABC 73 SK<lf/cr> > > > >Then W5ABC would send... > >"W5ABC > K5YFW 73<lf/cr> > > > >And the transmissions were over. > > > >The mail program created the necessary files and put them in a > >folder/directory to be sent out via SMTP or waited to be picked up by >WB5WXY > >connecting or another station for relay to WB5WXY. > > > >There was a router table that looked something like this: > > > >WB5WXY:WB5WXY (meaning that WB5WXY would pick up the message themselves) > >WB5WXY:K5SBU v WA5TRQ (meaning that K5SBU would deliver the message to > >WB5WXT but WA5TRQ would take the message and forward it to K5SBU who would > >deliver it to WB5WXY. > > > >This program allowed for receiving, sending (delivering) E-Mail to the > >addressee or forwarding the E-Mail as shown in the routing table. You >could > >not read you messages on line. > > > >The client only program was less than 300 lines of basic and the server > >application was less than 2000 lines of code. > > > >I feel sure that someone today could pick up the effort and recreate these > >applications for use with PSK31, MFSK16, MT63 and most of the other digital > >modes. > > > >What do you think? > > > >Walt/K5YFW > > > > > > > > > > > > > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > >Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org > > > >Other areas of interest: > > > >The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ > >DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy >discussion) > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > >Bill Aycock - W4BSG >Woodville, Alabama > > > > >Need a Digital mode QSO? 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