• HELP!

    From Philip Rambaran@1:275/156 to All on Thu Feb 20 10:07:01 2014
    I've never used a BBS before! Can somebody teach me the basics?
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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Philip Rambaran on Thu Feb 20 11:48:31 2014

    On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, Philip Rambaran wrote to All:

    I've never used a BBS before! Can somebody teach me the basics?

    there's not a lot to teach, really... you have menus that you make your selection from using the keyboard... some systems are message oriented, others are file oriented and some are game oriented... some systems have all three... pretty much everything is done the old-fashioned way with the keyboard unless the system has a HTML web interface...

    probably the toughest aspect is transfering files when using telnet or ssh... your terminal has to support the transfer protocols that the BBS has available... the most common protocol will be zmodem because of its ease of use... you select the file and zmodem transfers the name to the other end when it sends the data... other protocols, xmodem for instance, require that you type the name twice... once on one end to tell it what file you are sending/receiving and once on the other end to send or receive it...

    that's it for a quick response... what other questions do you have? maybe some others will chime in with additional responses ;)

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  • From Nancy Backus@1:261/1381 to Philip Rambaran on Fri Feb 21 15:18:36 2014
    Quoting Philip Rambaran to All on 20 Feb 14 10:07:01 <=-

    I've never used a BBS before! Can somebody teach me the basics?

    You seem to have at least stumbled on the most basic... getting on.. ;)
    And you also managed to write a message, so you've figured out the text
    editor, and how to send a message... another basic. :) Many of us use
    bbses for sending messages to people all over... the different message
    bases give us different types of things to talk about. If you are
    interested in cooking or eating, for instance, you might want to look at
    the COOKING echo. Read some of the messages, feel free to jump in and
    answer something that looks interesting to you. If you read an area for
    a little while, you'll get a flavor of what the place is like, and what
    to expect from those who regularly use that area. Often rules are
    posted, sometimes monthly, sometimes more or less often... :)

    If you really get into messaging, you'll want to see about getting some
    way of reading and writing messages offline...

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    ... and I see that you are a user on Noel's board, so you can ask him
    if he can give you some guidance there. There might be files available
    on the bbs to get you started... like an offline reader... :)

    If you are into playing games, that's another thing that bbses offer...
    The only ones I tend to play are Scrabble and King of the Board, maybe
    another word game or two... but there are all sorts of games available.

    You can always ask more specific questions, and there probably will be
    someone at hand to answer... :)

    ttyl neb

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  • From DONALD MEEK@1:116/18 to Philip Rambaran on Fri Dec 19 16:23:24 2014
    it seems each bbs is a bit different with different software but
    sometimes the commands are the same or simular

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  • From ROBERT WOLFE@1:116/18 to DONALD MEEK on Fri Dec 19 17:18:08 2014
    it seems each bbs is a bit different with different software but
    sometimes the commands are the same or simular

    This is true. And having a BBS package that has a scripting language helps, too :)



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