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DamienT (damient@livewire.digicity.net)
Sun, 01 Dec 1996 21:51:35 -0800

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At 10:43 PM 12/2/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Is anyone out there using a PM2 to act as a dial-in modem pool for a Wildcat
>BBS or any other BBS for that matter? Specifically, what I'm wondering is
>how could we allow a user to call into the PM2 and go to the BBS rather than
>the Internet.
>Obviously you can have them go to a UNIX host, but what about a DOS or
>Windows based host running BBS software.

We did this for another company quite some time ago. The company was
running MajorBBS and a TCP/IP add-on. We created a generic account in
the PortMaster that performed an rlogin call (so the connection would
be 8-bit and z-modem transfers would work...didn't work with telnet for
some reason) to the BBS. It worked great.

If the BBS in question can't be accessed via TCP/IP, I'm not sure how you
could aggregate the calls to the PM and forward them on to the BBS.

Damien

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