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- The following text instructs you on how to connect a remote computer via
- null-modem cable to another computer running TRIBBS and successfully connect
- and log-in to a node.
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- Maybe this info. is obvious, but it took me a while to come up with it.
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- TRIBBS is a very nice, small BBS system. I got it working fairly easily using
- a MODEM, but I wanted to test it frequently, and since I have several computers
- scattered about, I decided to try connecting two with a serial cable. Testing
- the system this way is useful because the remotely-connected computer behaves
- as if you had dialed into the system with a MODEM. This is different than
- logging on locally. When you log on locally, you lose the TriBBS node menu
- screen and you can't do (as a SYSOP) what you normally could do from this
- screen. By logging on with the null-modem, you still have the node console...
- ... pretty slick.
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- For testing purposes, you can use another computer connected via a null-modem
- cable to a node. To log into TRIBBS with such a set-up, do the following:
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- 1. You must first make the proper hardware connection via null-modem cable.
- You can make such a cable yourself with two DB-9's and some wire. The
- RING-DETECT line should not be connected at all.
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- 2. Configure the TRIBBS node to answer after 1 RING and use RTS/CTS flow.
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- 3. Bring up a telecom program on the remote computer (e.g. TELIX) with the
- port baud rate set to MATCH EXACTLY the default baud rate of the TRIBBS
- node. This is necessary for TRIBBS to recognize the strings you must send.
- With TELIX you can start up with a command line option (TELIX /O) that will
- fool TELIX into thinking it's already connected so it won't send a modem
- init. string, but this isn't totally necessary, just convenient.
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- 4. Type (or otherwise have the telecom program send) the following two strings:
- RING
- CONNECT xxxxx (where xxxxx is the baud rate 2400, 14400, etc)
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- TRIBBS now thinks it's talking to a MODEM!
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- TRIBBS will acknowledge on the mini-status line that a RING was detected.
- after the CONNECT xxxxx string, TRIBBS will start the log-on procedure
- and you are in business!
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- Now you can see exactly how your system behaves and appears to callers, you
- can page the SYSOP, and do anything an ON-LINE caller can do. This is extra-
- useful if you have only 1 line. If you have two or more lines, you could just
- call-in from the second line.
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- ENJOY
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- courtesy of Nick Kollat
- The Lost Planet Archive BBS
- Boardman, OH
- Voice phone: 216-726-8592
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- P.S.
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- A note on some more TRIBBS info. that wasn't immediately obvious to me from the
- documentation:
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- 1. To answer a SYSOP page from a caller, press ALT-C for chat mode.
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- 2. I have successfully brought up TRIBBS with multiple nodes on a LANtastic
- network as suggested in the TRIBBS documentation. The docs. are somewhat
- vague and fuzzy on how to do this. If you would like more info., contact
- me.
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