gerry@dialogic.UUCP (Gerry Lachac) (06/07/89)
We are currently in the market for a UNIX-based BBS system that we can set up in a technical support capacity. Does anyone have any familiarity with such a beast? I know of Picospan(sp?) ala the WELL, but I don't know where to get any info on that software. Requirements would be: o able to run under Interactive ix/386 or AT&T386 o Download and upload capabilities Any pointers to software, Commercial or Public Domain, would be appreciated. -- ( under construction ) ..!uunet!dialogic!gerry <------ OR ------> gerry@dialogic.UUCP
peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) (06/07/89)
We have found that 95% of the capabilities of a BBS can be achieved by ripping certain shell escapes out of the news system, and adding an editor. It's a far better message system than any standard BBS I've ever used. The closest competitor I've seen is the commercial product TBBS. -- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Business: uunet.uu.net!ficc!peter, peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Personal: ...!texbell!sugar!peter, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com.
root@conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera) (06/09/89)
In article <296@dialogic.UUCP> gerry@dialogic.UUCP (Gerry Lachac) writes: >We are currently in the market for a UNIX-based BBS system that we can >set up in a technical support capacity. Does anyone have any familiarity >with such a beast? I know of Picospan(sp?) ala the WELL, but I don't know >where to get any info on that software. > >Requirements would be: > > o able to run under Interactive ix/386 or AT&T386 > o Download and upload capabilities > >Any pointers to software, Commercial or Public Domain, would be >appreciated. You can always get the latest version of XBBS via anonymous UUCP from conexch. Just login as nuucp and request /usr/spool/uucppublic/ALLbbs.tar.Z. There's a Systems entery in the .signature at the end of this followup article. XBBS was placed into the public domain by Sanford Zelkovitz and is distributed in C source code form. It supports mutiple message and file areas, and several file transfer protocols. XBBS is completely openended in that you can make any program or shell script available to XBBS users. There is complete user access permission control with regard to accessable areas and time allotment, as well as all the other features that make for a truely useable BBS. Larry Dighera -- USPS: The Consultants' Exchange, PO Box 12100, Santa Ana, CA 92712 TELE: (714) 842-6348: BBS (N81); (714) 842-5851: Xenix guest account (E71) UUCP: conexch Any ACU 2400 17148425851 ogin:-""-ogin:-""-ogin: nuucp UUCP: ...!uunet!spsd!conexch!root || ...!trwrb!ucla-an!conexch!root