• Tiny BBS for DOS?

    From MissChief@21:2/125 to All on Tue Aug 30 06:56:22 2022
    Does anyone know of really small BBS software for DOS? Something
    that can run off a floppy, and maybe even support
    FTN?
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  • From MissChief@21:2/125 to All on Tue Aug 30 08:11:41 2022
    Does anyone know of really small BBS software for DOS? Something
    that can run off a floppy, and maybe even support
    FTN?

    I came across TinyHost which seems to work well, but it's pretty limited. Unzipped it comes in at 15 files and 186K in size.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to MissChief on Tue Aug 30 11:53:44 2022
    Re: Tiny BBS for DOS?
    By: MissChief to All on Tue Aug 30 2022 06:56 am

    Does anyone know of really small BBS software for DOS? Something that can run off a floppy, and maybe even support FTN?

    I don't know, but one thing I thought of was that Telix (terminal emulator) has a small host mode which does something similar to a BBS, though it's not a full BBS packge by any means. I wonder if that would be small enough to run on a floppy disk.

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  • From Zero Reader@21:4/177.1 to Misschief on Tue Aug 30 12:31:11 2022
    Quoting message from Misschief to All
    on 30 Aug 22 06:56:22 ...

    Does anyone know of really small BBS software for DOS? Something
    that can run off a floppy, and maybe even support
    FTN?

    The latest version of Renegade is great and could possibly be squeezed onto a floppy in a very minimal configuration. It would be tough to get a
    mailer on there too though.

    Anyway, great question! I'm curious to learn about this as well.

    -ZR

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to MissChief on Sat Sep 3 10:18:18 2022
    On 30 Aug 2022 at 06:56a, MissChief pondered and said...

    Does anyone know of really small BBS software for DOS? Something
    that can run off a floppy, and maybe even support
    FTN?

    Hi there :)

    Curious to understand what sort of system you're thinking of running it on, does it need to be a floppy?

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  • From MissChief@21:2/108 to Avon on Sun Sep 4 14:11:24 2022
    Does anyone know of really small BBS software for DOS? Something
    that can run off a floppy, and maybe even support
    FTN?

    Hi there :)
    Curious to understand what sort of system you're thinking of running it on, does it need to be a floppy?


    I was thinking of running something off my old Tandy 1000HX. But to be honest it might be more trouble than it's worth, especially with the drives not
    being reliable.

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  • From Commodore Clifford@21:3/171 to MissChief on Wed Aug 31 19:20:56 2022
    On 30 Aug 22 08:11:41 MissChief wrote...

    Does anyone know of really small BBS software for DOS?
    Something that can run off a floppy, and maybe even support
    FTN?

    I came across TinyHost which seems to work well, but it's pretty
    limited. Unzipped it comes in at 15 files and 186K in size.

    ... Running Windows is better than washing them!

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    To which Commodore Clifford replies...

    Does it support FTN?

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  • From MissChief@21:2/108 to Commodore Clifford on Sun Sep 4 17:15:09 2022
    I came across TinyHost which seems to work well, but it's pretty limited. Unzipped it comes in at 15 files and 186K in size.
    Does it support FTN?

    No, in fact it's very very basic for a BBS package. Perfect if I just want to transfer some files from machine to machine, or leave a simple message.

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to MissChief on Mon Sep 5 15:58:33 2022
    On 04 Sep 2022 at 02:11p, MissChief pondered and said...

    I was thinking of running something off my old Tandy 1000HX. But to be honest it might be more trouble than it's worth, especially with the drives not being reliable.

    ah, OK cool... good luck if you opt to try, yes the joys of making stuff talk to each other etc. :)

    Best, Paul

    avon@bbs.nz / bbs.nz / fsxnet.nz

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  • From Bikerbob@21:3/171 to MissChief on Thu Sep 8 23:04:52 2022
    There is at least one CP/M bbs that would run on that with a floppy. I
    know the original Citidel. That could be fun???

    James

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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to MissChief on Tue Sep 13 16:36:35 2022
    Does anyone know of really small BBS software for DOS? Something
    that can run off a floppy, and maybe even support FTN?

    You might like to see this bbS in action, its on a C/PM machine and I know it runs on a disk;

    MicroBBS CB2/QRP.GR qrp.gr:2323



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    |08.........

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  • From MissChief@21:2/108 to paulie420 on Thu Sep 15 02:48:27 2022

    You might like to see this bbS in action, its on a C/PM machine and I
    know it runs on a disk;

    MicroBBS CB2/QRP.GR qrp.gr:2323

    Sweet thanks, I'll check it out.

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  • From fandarel@21:1/222 to MissChief on Thu Oct 13 15:48:26 2022
    know it runs on a disk;

    MicroBBS CB2/QRP.GR qrp.gr:2323

    Sweet thanks, I'll check it out.

    I just ran across this question today, but it's a topic I've thought
    about a lot over the last several years.

    Back in the day, there were FTN-connected systems running from floppy.
    I'm pretty sure they were using an older OPUS-CBCS, maybe 1.03 or 1.14.
    These were 300/1200 baud systems and they were slow but usable. I'm sure
    Fido 10j or 11 would run on floppy too, but that's before my time.

    Speaking of tomj, he also wrote a small BBS called Puppy that's floating around, specifically for this use case. Circular message base, no
    frills, intended for running from floppy. I don't know that anyone
    actually ever ran it, but the binaries are around if you hunt.

    Getting such a beast to talk to the net would be interesting. There is a
    DOS package called rlfossil.zip that allows for a single serial channel
    to be emulated by TCP connection. It is good enough to support
    interactive sessions. I am not sure if it will support an FTN session.
    Again, maybe at 1200 baud FTS-0001 only. Hold the ZedZap.


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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to fandarel on Fri Oct 14 07:25:00 2022
    Getting such a beast to talk to the net would be interesting. There is a DOS package called rlfossil.zip that allows for a single serial channel
    to be emulated by TCP connection. It is good enough to support interactive sessions. I am not sure if it will support an FTN session. Again, maybe at 1200 baud FTS-0001 only. Hold the ZedZap.

    I'm using RLFOSSIL at tlp. It can be configured to report any speed, but I don't believe it actually has any effect on throughput. I've got FrontDoor running on top of it reliably talking to 21:3/100. Within the BBS though I cannot get any file transfer to work reliably. It appears to be related to latency, the further away you are the worse it gets. Over LAN I can get X/Y modem to function reasonably. I guess the other thing to note is I'm using
    it in a VM and real hardware might well produce a better result. The last
    and in some ways more catastrophic problem is it tends to go deaf. If the
    port you assign it to gets hit by the script kiddies, RLFOSSIL will
    eventually start ignoring the connects, don't have any good reason for this.

    Spec


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  • From sPINOZa@21:1/116 to Spectre on Fri Oct 14 10:57:02 2022
    I'm using RLFOSSIL at tlp. It can be configured to report any speed,

    Hi,

    Are you able to connect to frontdoor and load the bbs up in combination with RLFOSSIL ? At my site it drops the carrier, which I think is logical, but I just would like to know for sure.

    Gtx!
    sPI!

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to sPINOZa on Sat Oct 15 07:05:00 2022
    Are you able to connect to frontdoor and load the bbs up in combination with RLFOSSIL ? At my site it drops the carrier, which I think is
    logical, but I just would like to know for sure.

    I'm not sure what you're getting at. However if it answers your question I'll have a go anyways. I found rlfossil to be a bit pedantic on how it will run.

    I actually have a seperate VM running FrontDoor, so that's its only job, its not actually accepting incoming "calls". I left the BBS nodes to handle the incoming connects.

    Originally I had trouble getting FD to work at all. It'd load report no
    fossil and shut up shop. I ended up loading rlfossil from autoexec and
    having to call the appropriate batch file from the command line otherwise it seems to unload itself. I suspect it I rewrote the batch files at this point so each node had an FD install at the front it'd probably be workable. But given it works the way it is, I'm not in a hurry to try it the other way around.

    I don't know what BBS software you're using, but for FD to work as the front end you need to tell the BBS that the fossil is hot and online when you load it. For me with SuperBBS this is... bbs.exe -B 19200 or whatever other speed its configured for. Whatever yours may be will vary. If you just try and run the BBS as a normal startup first thing it'll try and do is initialise the fossil again and hang it up.

    Spec


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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to sPINOZa on Sat Oct 15 07:16:00 2022
    Are you able to connect to frontdoor and load the bbs up in combination

    Just an extra note...

    The last thing my autoexec.bat loads is rlfossil.

    c:\rlfossil\rlfossil 0 1 "f:\fd.bat"

    If you never exit fd.bat it'll work as expected. So loading your BBS
    afterwards should be fine so long as its passed the already connected parameter.

    All other variations of this command line failed for me. I had to run
    rlfossil full path, and I had to run the batch file out of the root directory on the target volume. Call whatever you like from the first batch file,
    fd.bat in this example, but never exit it, or rlfossil will unload.

    Spec


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  • From sPINOZa@21:1/116 to Spectre on Wed Oct 19 13:37:53 2022
    Are you able to connect to frontdoor and load the bbs up in combinati
    Just an extra note...

    I was/am a bit busy/ill this week, but wanted to let you know that I will have a look at it this weekend. Thanks for the reply!!

    gTx!
    sPI

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to sPINOZa on Sat Oct 22 03:12:00 2022
    I was/am a bit busy/ill this week, but wanted to let you know that I will have a look at it this weekend. Thanks for the reply!!

    In your own time, have at it! :)

    Spec


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  • From sPINOZa@21:1/116 to Spectre on Sat Oct 29 12:11:25 2022
    Are you able to connect to frontdoor and load the bbs up in combinati
    Just an extra note...
    c:\rlfossil\rlfossil 0 1 "f:\fd.bat"

    Yeah, this works perfectly !!

    I am loading up Telegard, but at random moments the BBS doesnt receive the input from the caller. After a while it works again, sometimes when locally input is given or when I go into config mode of the terminal program. I am using Netrunner.

    Anyone recognizes these problems ?

    I already tried the config options in Netrunner like mouse off, local echo off etc. But that doesn't seem to help.

    gTX!
    SPi

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to sPINOZa on Sun Oct 30 07:06:00 2022

    I am loading up Telegard, but at random moments the BBS doesnt receive the input from the caller. After a while it works again, sometimes when locally input is given or when I go into config mode of the terminal program. I am using Netrunner.

    Can't say I've run into that. Might be worth looking at the wattcp.cfg file though and try forcing the handshake to telnet. HANDSHAKE=2

    Spec


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  • From bbsing@21:1/172 to Nightfox on Tue Aug 22 01:03:00 2023
    On 30 Aug 2022, Nightfox said the following...

    Re: Tiny BBS for DOS?
    By: MissChief to All on Tue Aug 30 2022 06:56 am

    Does anyone know of really small BBS software for DOS? Something that run off a floppy, and maybe even support FTN?

    I don't know, but one thing I thought of was that Telix (terminal emulator) has a small host mode which does something similar to a BBS, though it's not a full BBS packge by any means. I wonder if that would
    be small enough to run on a floppy disk.


    That is write Telix has a bbs mode. I think procom also does. Not sure about telemate.
    But I think you will need the full version of Telix.

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