If you dont use BBS software that doesnt talk tcpip then there is NO way
to interface the PM with the bbs.
On Sun, 1 Dec 1996, DamienT wrote:
> 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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