OT? - How to run a DOS BBS directly attached to a Terminal Server

From: Maxwell K. Froedge <keith_at_saracom.com>
Date: Tue Sep 9 14:41:01 2003

Hello,

This may be OFF TOPIC but I did run WWIV more than 10 years ago.

My question is how to run a DOS BBS directly attached to a Terminal Server.
That is without a modem. I have a PicoWeb server which basically allows one
to connect a serial device directly to ethernet and comunicates via TCP/IP.

It works and I can talk with it via Telnet. However I want to run a classic
BBS such as WWIV. I have tried my backup copy from circa 1992 and
it really wants a modem. I have tried the current version too without luck.

So is there any old style BBSes which will work with a direct connection to
a terminal (in my case a serial to ethernet convertor)? I would want
chains.txt
support so I could run the great online games.

I could run WWIV with my two V.everything modems back to back but that
IS overkill. Is there any other solution? Has anyone tried this?

Thanks
Max
Received on Tue Sep 09 2003 - 14:41:01 BST