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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.ultranet.com!bigboote.WPI.EDU!daver From: daver@res.WPI.EDU (Dave Costantino) Newsgroups: alt.bbs.unixbbs,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Check out new Linux/FreeBSD BBS... Date: 25 Mar 1996 00:10:41 GMT Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute Lines: 36 Message-ID: <slrn44lbp40.lc4.daver@res.WPI.EDU> References: <slrn44lb4e8.843.daver@res.WPI.EDU> <Pine.LNX.3.91.960324173154.4691C-100000@the-eye.res.wpi.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: res.wpi.edu X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.4) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.bbs.unixbbs:602 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15850 comp.os.linux.development.apps:13552 comp.os.linux.misc:93739 In article <Pine.LNX.3.91.960324173154.4691C-100000@the-eye.res.wpi.edu>, George Caswell wrote: >Not that I'm not already -somewhat- familiar with Tmok's system, but >could you provide the official specs? IE does it use one system account >for all users, or one for each, (that's the big one) how does menuing There's one account for each user... If you want to lock users into the BBS menu system, you just make their shell nvbbs. >work (Do you write plaintext menus which the BBS displays, or do you put >in ASCII and ANSI files as in Renegade, does it use internal systems for Menus are all set up via ASCII files. One file defines the commands valid on that menu (security levels, options, etc.) There's also another file for ANSI, for text, etc. that gets displayed to the user. >news and mail or system ones (very connected to first question..), is >there a package, included or available, to allow it to network messages >with DOS bbses, offline mail support, etc. etc. etc...) It calls sendmail to send out email. There's an internal email system. There's no NNTP support as of yet. Message bases are done via client/server (there's one message server running, the BBS acts as a client... in other words, message bases aren't news based.) No offline reader support as of yet... -Dave PS: I deleted your acct on tmok. Make another one and I'll tell you how to be an early beta tester... -- Dave Costantino = WPI = Telnet tmok2.tmok.com daver@tmok.com = CS = for a Linux BBS/chat site daver@wpi.edu = '98 = http://www.tmok.com/