Has anyone here tried using any of the current crop of BBS software (Synchronet/Mystic/???) as a packet radio BBS? I'm currently trying to figure out how much it's possible to strip down mystic to make it work
at 1200bps (on a good day) w/o any ANSI (or other screen control code) support.
Avon wrote to Lars Kellogg-Stedman <=-
I also think doing work on a BBS theme that is ASCII only menus and stripped down to the main things you would want to access over the air (main menu, message menu, login, logoff) would be the way to go.
Avon wrote to Lars Kellogg-Stedman <=-
I also think doing work on a BBS theme that is ASCII only menus and stripped down to the main things you would want to access over the air (main menu, message menu, login, logoff) would be the way to go.
One of the limitations I'm running into is that BBS software really
likes "hotkeys" (e.g, prompt responses that don't require a
carriage return). This is particularly problematic with Synchronet's backspace detection; using a typical ax.25 terminal session, there's no way to respond appropriately because text isn't sent to the remote until
after pressing "return", and things like backspace/delete are never
sent.
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