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Skriven 2006-08-21 09:25:00 av Bob Jones (1:343/41.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Nathan Prugh
Ärende: Binkley front end
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 NP> hello everyone...

Hello, Nathan...

 NP> I would like some help how to get binkley front end work along with irex 
 NP> and how can i get it to pass to the bbs if a person 
 NP> press escape twice and I am using searchlight bbs and 
 NP> for tosser, I use squish yeah... I also have my own 
 NP> import.bat and export.bat set up already and I do run 
 NP> irex... and how can I route the files betwen the 2, 
 NP> irex and binkley to go out? and other stuff, can yall 
 NP> help me and do all in steps or something... :-) and I 
 NP> would like to get it working... so can yall email at 
 NP> inetk@internetking.com.mx or via netmail @ 1:138/392.

I belive Paul Casey used to run Searchlight under dbridge.....  Unfortunately,
he recently passed on so, I can't ask him questions.

I run Maximus under Binkley and use Binkd to handle BinkP protocol, and squish
to process the mail.  Since I'm running OS/2 using Ray Gwin's SIO package
VMODEM suport, I have Binkley / Maximus supporting Telnet and Vmodem telnet
connections.....  As I understand things, Irex will handle the binkp protocol,
along with some others.....

Since it sounds like you already have all but Binkley working, and since Paul
had searchlight running under dbrige, I assume the main issue you need solved
at this time is getting search light to run under a front end.  From memory of
seeing some of Paul's scripts in the past, this should be reasonable to do
under Binkley.  The main things I need from you are:

(A)  What operating system is your BBS running under?

(B)  What version of Binkley are you trying to use?  I'm still using Binkley
2.60, which was the last "official" release by the orignal team.  There are one
or two off shoot branches of the Binkley code that have additional features.  I
might be able to get you running with version 2.60 and then leave it as an
exercise to then upgrade to the later Binkley versions if that is what you want
to run.

(C)  Is this being run with a live modem on a serial port, on a virtual modem
setup (for telnet support) or both?  If telnet support, what are you using for
the virtual modem support?

(D)  Based on the above answers, this will limit the recommenations for the
three options Binkley supports for starting the BBS.  Under DOS (very old DOS),
I used to use the method where Binkley exited with a error level that defined
the connection speed and then used the Binkley batch file to startup my BBS. 
Under OS/2 (my current setup), I believe I'm using the SPAWN BBS method, where
binkley starts up the BBS as a sub-process.....

 NP> I have several networks besides fidonet


 NP> I apprecate all your help...

 NP> btw, if any of you live in the king county in 
 NP> washington, I apprecate the help in person if possible...

There are very few of us left in King County, WA, USA....  I would expect that
you can dial my system (1:343/41) as a local call if you are using dialup.  If
you are using TCP protocols, use tophat.darktech.org for the address and
Vmodem, Telnet or BinkP protocols.  If you want to setup direct Fidonet links
with me, please send a private netmail with a session password.  Please note
that for Binkley, the session password is case insensitive, but it is case
sensitive for BinkP protocol (using BinkD on my end).  Without a session
password, I do not accept compressed mail packets for automatic processing.


 NP> Thanks!!!

You're welcome.

Bob Jones, 1:343/41


 NP> PATH: 138/392 106/1 2000 140/1 138/146 343/41

Interesting route.....

I'm going to forward a copy of this in netmail.  Normally, that would go
directly from my machine to your NC's machine.  Since the nodelist shows you
supporting IBN protocol, I will attempt a direct delivery to you.  Please
establish a session passord if you want to keep the direct communications up.

Bob Jones, NEC and NC for Net 343......

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