vicka@ftp.COM (Vicka Corey) (01/18/90)
I'm trying to set up a dial-in bulletin board for my company -- we want
to open up access to bug-fixes and various other helpful stuff to those
of our users without Internet access -- and I'd like to find out about
what such software is available. I'd really like to get one running
over Xenix rather than DOS, which I think would simplify the task of
keeping the same info available through anonymous FTP, and I just got a
286 box to dedicate to the task.
The only such beast I've heard of so far is Sandy Zelkovitz's XBBS:
1) Is XBBS public domain? Can it be run on a 286 machine?
2) Can it be run along with processes like an FTP daemon? Can files
be accessed both through XBBS and ftp? Does it support, or can it
coexist with, XYorZmodem?
3) How does one get this stuff? I couldn't get "nuucp" to work; it
seemed to want a password from me. Any ideas on what I could be
doing wrong? Or (cross fingers) is it available through the internet?
Anybody know of any other BBS software for Xenix/286?
A thousand thanks for any help,
--Vicka Corey vicka@ftp.com
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