Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!tronix!rwm
From: rwm@tronix.UUCP (Russell McOrmond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: DOSgates and BBS's
Message-ID: <0105.AA0105@tronix>
Date: 2 Jun 89 17:01:24 GMT
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  ---- Original Posting ----
From: bmacintyre@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: I wanna have a DOSGate!
Message-ID: <10018@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 1 Jun 89 13:36:59 GMT
References: <16317@gryphon.COM>
Reply-To: bmacintyre@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre)
Organization: UofW Computer Graphics Lab

In article <16317@gryphon.COM> ddave@pnet02.cts.com (David Donley) writes:
>peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>In article <1989May28.171344.4525@ziebmef.uucp>, mcp@ziebmef.uucp (Marc Plumb) writes:
>>> In article <16031@gryphon.COM> ddave@pnet02.cts.com (David Donley) writes:
>>> >How can I fake normal standard programs into sending their stdio into
>>> >my BBS code?
>>> Write a DOS handler.
>>What's wrong with using a PIPE: type of device?
>I can't use a pipe, the BBS must handle many events, it can't just wait for
>data to come from a file.


Well being as this is a multitasking computer ( you remember, we brag about
it all the time! ) why not write a little program that reads a file and
sends the appropriate message ( whatever that is ) to your BBS.

Then, you just redirect your output to a pipe: and read the pipe: with
that program.  I'm assuming that you know what kind of messages it is
you want to send, so this should be trivial ...

A DOS handler seems a bit extreme in this case.  I'm personally into the
"use existing tools" mentality that Peter ( I assume ) is into too, judging 
by his suggestion to use a pipe:

Blair

--- End of re-hashing ---

  I now begin to wonder what is going to happen with the new generations of
Multi-line BBS's, and the like. I think a dos handler is the best way to go
because it may eventually have to handle Unit numbers as well. (IE:  
bbs.device with unit #x that is passed to the external program when called,
or something along the lines of BBSx: where the x is again passed from the
calling program.

  With some of the newer buffered multi-serial ports, this type of Multi-line
type of setup is something we should all be looking into.  I've heard bits
and pieces of a card that ASDG is working on.  This is exactly the type of
card that I will need on my system (I currently run 2 lines, one of which
must be on a Bridgeboard (How Embarasing ;) because the software and hardware
just isn't here yet.

:Later

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