Linux-Hams archive - November 1997: Re: Prompt in Linux-node ?

Re: Prompt in Linux-node ?

Tomi Manninen (mso.kxyaxorrp@itlnet.net)
Mon, 10 Nov 1997 13:31:52 +0200 (EET)


On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Mike Bilow wrote:

> TM> In NOS and in Linux this is now solved with different SSID's
> TM> and LinuxNode already has a welcome text so this is no reason
> TM> for not having a prompt.
>
> This is how most people use the system, and distinguishing by SSID is the
> recommended configuration for BPQ. The problem with BPQ is that it only
> supports two SSIDs internally, one for the node and one for the default
> application. If you want more than one application, you need to educate users
> to connect to the node and issue the necessary command without a prompt.

BTW it is possible to configure BPQ to support only one application and no
node (NODE=0 and BBS=1 in the config file). I had one system working like
that for some time. I guess BPQ then does the same kind of heuristics as
the NOS "mbox jumpstart" kludge used to do to distinguish between users
and other nodes.

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