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 Message 2108 
 Robert Wolfe to Janis Kracht 
 BBS waiting for caller 
 23 Oct 18 21:52:14 
 
> Hi Benny,
>>> I don't have a modem here so I can't use /dev/ttyS1 here. When I tried
>>> running BBBS it tries and fails to initialize the modem then quits so I
>>> need a way to start BBBS without a modem.
>>i gave op with modems under linux long time ago, it was to complicated compar
>> to how simple it was in amiga os

>It's easy under Linux. Over here, my modem is owned by bbbs:dialout with prope
>permissions.  For Alan's question, it was a matter of using this line for BBBS
> since he is not using a modem :)
> ./bbbs 2 2 TCPIP
> for node 2, for example.

Kinda like what I have here:  

{0}[c:\bbbs] type tcpnode.cmd
@echo off
cd \bbbs
bbbs.exe 1 1 TCPIP

But for the OS/2 version :)

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