[nos-bbs] nos-bbs Digest, Vol 236, Issue 17

[maiko at pcsinternet.ca]

If you google "texnet wb5bbw" early 1990s Tex Net packet networks,
never heard of that before, before 'my time' in any amateur radio
packet networking. The "*** LINKED" handled by the dostars() func
in mailbox.c was written for that. This is Hank and Brabham days,
you know W0RLI if I am not mistaken, I came in long after that.

That bit could probably be reused now for something else, you can
remove it or just leave it alone (will never get used I think).

Funny seeing Charles Brabham in there, quite the character N5PVL,
his famous 'land line lid' squabbles are legendary on forums :)

Not sure he is alive anymore, I got to know him briefly during my
time playing around with flexnet and xnet and stuff ...

Maiko

On 2024-12-31 11:55, Boudewijn (Bob) Tenty wrote:
> That is a though message to answer Charles as this was a long time ago.
> Somebody who was not a BBS  could make a link with you and forward
> messages to you and so to the network.
> I believe that was made through JNOS what could be accessed from
> Internet and I believe that so a lot of CB BBS
> messages appeared on the Ham radio network at the time.  It was
> described some where at a site. I simulated it
> over my local area network and a message appeared in JNOS called
> ***LINKED***.  The exact how-to I don't
> remember anymore, maybe Maiko can answer that. It was anyhow not good!
> 
> Bob (Boudewijn) VE3TOK
> 
> 
> On 12/31/24 08:43, Charles J. Hargrove wrote:
>> Bob, I see that your number is derived from 1+2+8+16+32+8192+262144.
>> What does 262144 (disable 'linked to') do/not do on your system?
>> 
>> What I have been using on my system for years is 
>> 1+2+8+16+32+8192+16384.
>> I set an expert prompt for the partner bbs that some systems can 
>> handle.
>> 
>> On 12/31/2024 1:28 AM, nos-bbs-request at lists.tapr.org wrote:
>>> For normal user access +  = BBS  I set it to 270395
>>> 
>>> 73,
>>> Bob VE3TOK
>>