LogLevel = INFO set display/log output levelĭebug = FALSE enable debug logging (overrides LogLevel) ini files are just a plain text files that you can edit with any plain text/ ASCII file editor (e.g. I recently discovered a couple of unrelated Win32 programs by the name of COM2TCP which do fundamentally the same thing as SEXPOTS, but SEXPOTS is more robust/reliable, and has some niceties and cool BBS and Synchronet-specific features you'll like: While SEXPOTS was designed with Synchronet-Win32 sysops in mind, it should work with any TCP Server (e.g. I had to buy an analog modem (I'd thrown-out or donated all my modems years ago) and get a second phone line installed to test it, but finally, here it is: SEXPOTS (the name pays homage to SEXYZ). I knew exactly what was required to write a Serial↔ TCP tunneling program and blogged on the web-site way back in 2002 that I planned on writing just such a program to give dial-up capabilities to Synchronet v3 Win32 sysops.īetter late than never (?), I finally started writing this a program a few months ago (early 2007).
Though I'm pretty sure there isn't much demand for dial-up BBSes today (30Kbps!), there has been enough interest from sysops to at least justify some effort (in my mind) to attempt to relive the BBS days of old, using actual *gasp* modems! I wanted to provide something easier, more seamless. But these solutions all seemed insufficient in some ways or excessively complex or inconvenient. running Synchronet v2.3 for DOS concurrently with v3, using *getty on Linux/Unix, using Manning's Dialup-to-Telnet Win32 gateway program with a front-end application, etc.). I've resisted this idea (for a few significant reasons I won't go into here), and have instead, suggested alternative methods of supporting dial-up users (e.g. Over the 7 years since Synchronet v3's release, I've received occasional (but persistent) inquiries about the possibility or likelihood of adding modem support back into Synchronet to support direct analog dial-up users of the old BBS days before the Internet/broadband boom.
Synchronet BBS Software version 3 was designed for client connections over TCP/ IP protocols only (predominantly, Telnet).