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- PRELIMINARY DOCUMENTATION
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- THESE ARE NOTES ONLY, NONE OF THIS IS IMPLEMENTED
- YET!
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- SETTING DNET UP AS A BBS (STANDALONE)
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- (1) Set your modem to auto-answer
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- Make sure that dropping DTR will hangup the modem
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- (2) run dnet -a -8 [-bbaud] -sdbbs
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- (additional options may apply, see DNET.DOC)
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- -on connect, dnet will will interpret the connect message:
- CONNECT default baud
- CONNECT <N> N baud
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- These can be modified by AUTA resource entries in s:dnet.config
- (The defaults will not be used at all if any AUTA entries
- exist).
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- dnet will automatically start the protocol and run 'dbbs'.
- dbbs is the bbs client program which will listen on port
- 8200 for connections. It is assumed the user will run a
- BBSTERM to connect to it. Alternately, the user might
- connect to the email, news, or filetransfer system (or all
- at once).
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- -on carrier lost, the RESM resource entries in s:dnet.config
- will be run a second apart to reset the modem.
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- uploading is done by requesting the bbs to retrieve files via
- the sgcopy server (i.e. ask the BBS to run 'getfiles') The
- user can download material by using the getfiles client
- program. Access rights will determine which directories he
- can download from.
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- (3) Have fun.
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- DBBS PROGRAM
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- The logical device DBBS: must be assigned to the BBS control directory.
- This directory contains the following files:
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- HELLO.MSG -initial hello message
- PASSWD -password file
- USERS/<name> -user information files firstname_lastname (one per user)
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- HELLO.MSG is sent on initial connect to the DBBS. PASSWD contains basic
- name, password, and security access levels. Further information exists
- in USERS/<name> (one file for each user) in a standard format to define
- such things as terminal modes, usage, and other items of interest.
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- NOTE that the mail, news, and file servers will also use the PASSWD file.
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- USERS/<firstname>_<lastname> CONTENTS
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- The database consists of a domain/value heirarchy. Each domain has a
- modify time datestamp.
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- LOGINS <> login history
- LOGIN <time> for every login, # seconds logged in
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- SECTIONS <sections_selected> selected sections
- SECTION <section> usage in a section
- DL <file> downloaded this file
- UL <file> uploaded this file
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- MAIL system mail queued for user/machine
- QUEUED <id> queued waiting for transfer
- SENT <id> sent
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- NEWS <> news groups we are reading
- GROUP <group-name>
- QUEUED <id>
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