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    From Martin Kazmaier@1:340/1101 to All on Sat Aug 1 21:52:00 2026
    Does anyone run Mystic with a dial-up node or two? I run Ele, but I think it would be about the same. What fossil driver do you use? Can I still use netfoss, or would I need to use ADF, BFU or X00 on that node? Would be easy enough to implement in the netfoss batch file if so. I'd love an answer on this. I've asked many places, but have yet to get an answer.

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  • From Jay Harris@1:229/664 to Martin Kazmaier on Wed Aug 5 07:26:36 2026
    On 01 Aug 2026, Martin Kazmaier said the following...

    Does anyone run Mystic with a dial-up node or two? I run Ele, but I
    think it would be about the same. What fossil driver do you use? Can I still use netfoss, or would I need to use ADF, BFU or X00 on that node? Would be easy enough to implement in the netfoss batch file if so. I'd love an answer on this. I've asked many places, but have yet to get an answer.

    You can use SEXPOTS which would basically answer the modem and connect it to Mystic's telnet.

    Go to:
    https://www.synchro.net/Synchronet/

    Look for sexpots.zip

    Makes for a nice easy setup as everything else stays the same from Mystic's perspective. Same telnet, fossil driver, etc.


    Jay

    ... I've failed math so many times I can't even count

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2024/05/29 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Northern Realms (1:229/664)
  • From IB Joe@1:342/201 to Martin Kazmaier on Wed Aug 5 11:05:54 2026
    On 01 Aug 2026, Martin Kazmaier said the following...


    Does anyone run Mystic with a dial-up node or two? I run Ele, but I
    think it would be about the same. What fossil driver do you use? Can I still use netfoss, or would I need to use ADF, BFU or X00 on that node? Would be easy enough to implement in the netfoss batch file if so. I'd love an answer on this. I've asked many places, but have yet to get an answer.


    Synchronet has an app called dialuptotelnet <---- something like that... It's an telnet app that answers the phone and sends you to an ip address via telnet.

    it doesn't need to be a Synchronet BBS just whatever.

    Good luck!!!

    IB Joe, Pronouns (FJB/LGB)
    AKA Joe Schweier
    SysOp of 4A 6F 65 73 42 42 53
    -=JoesBBS.com=-

    ... There are three kinds of people: Those who can count, and those who can't

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/04/30 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: JoesBBS.Com, Telnet:23 SSH:22 HTTP:80 (1:342/201)
  • From IB Joe@1:342/201 to Jay Harris on Wed Aug 5 12:35:22 2026
    On 05 Aug 2026, Jay Harris said the following...


    You can use SEXPOTS which would basically answer the modem and connect
    it to Mystic's telnet.


    That's the name... You have no idea what I called it.

    IB Joe, Pronouns (FJB/LGB)
    AKA Joe Schweier
    SysOp of 4A 6F 65 73 42 42 53
    -=JoesBBS.com=-

    ... A social life? Where can I download that!?

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2023/04/30 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: JoesBBS.Com, Telnet:23 SSH:22 HTTP:80 (1:342/201)
  • From David Dalton@1:3634/62 to Martin Kazmaier on Wed Aug 5 21:33:11 2026
    On 01 Aug 2026, Martin Kazmaier said the following...

    Does anyone run Mystic with a dial-up node or two?

    I run Mystic with a dial-up node. It's a bit complex, but it's very stable. On an Ubuntu box in my home in North Carolina, Claude Code wrote for me the code that watches and answers the modem. When a caller connects, Claude's code makes a connection to a proxy server on the Ubuntu machine where Mystic is running (that's a VPS server hosted at Hetzner in Germany). The proxy connects to Mystic's telnet port on localhost. The proxy layer also handles ssh connections and passes them to Mystic's telnet port on localhost. The proxy project is at https://github.com/johnsonjh/dps8m-proxy.

    Though I have been using Unix since the 1980s and Linux since the 1990s, Claude Code has saved me an incredible amount of time setting up systems and writing software for me. Claude knows quite a lot about how Mystic works, but a lot of stuff can be done only through the configuration GUI. When Mystic configuration can be done using a shell in the file system, Claude can handle that.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: The Last Telegraph Office (1:3634/62)