Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Robert_Bob_Mulholland From: Robert_Bob_Mulholland@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: SETTING UP A BBS Message-ID: <13483@cup.portal.com> Date: 13 Jan 89 04:31:09 GMT References: Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 15 IBM and Atari ST BBSs can very easily communicate with one another (I call IBM BBSs to acquire IBM software to use with PC Ditto all of the time). Also, I know IBM users who call Atari ST BBSs in a similar fashion. The program ARC is a standard and therefore different computers which use ARC can unARC files from other computer systems. To date I have used ARC521.TTP & ARC Shell 1.97b to unARC Atari ST, IBM and Amiga ARCed files successfully. Even the disk formats for Atari ST and IBM disks are nearly similar enough. Enough that you could stick a 3.5" IBM disk right from the IBM software package into an Atari ST disk drive and have it work with PC Ditto or be able to read text files on that disk. All ASCII codes are the same between the IBM and the Atari ST except for the graphics characters which are different on all systems but won't affect telecommunications at all.