On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, John Ackermann wrote:
> Howdy --
>
> A couple of convers questions, please:
>
> 1. What servers are people linking to these days? I have hydra as my
> only link right now, but it seems to be gone more than it's there.
>
> 2. Is there a way to define one or more channels on my local conversd
> server to stay local and not be sent via internet? I'd like to
> establish private channels to be used for emergency comms, and we don't
> want them to be forwarded out of the area.
Jnos handles this local channel implementation, but I have never been able
to do it with TPP 1.14.
> 3. How do folks login using the convers client, and have their
> callsign as their convers login name? Issuing the /NAME command via
> the convers client doesn't seem to do anything, though setting /NAME
> when I'm telnetted into conversd does work. In order to run the
> convers client, do I need to login from an account named for my
> callsign?
convers reads ~/.conversrc if it exists, and acts on those commands in
it. Here is a copy of my .conversrc file, and the commands for channel and
nickname.
# home/w0plw/.conversrc
/c 32767
/ni Ronnie
#
Note that the stock jnos convers client does not 'see' the nicknames. There
is a hack floating around somewhere that makes it show nicknames. Perhaps
Tom n1kio or Barry k2mf has the skinny on that.
There is also a very nice Linux convers client called colorconv, by Edson,
n1vtn which works in a tty, and is a nice upgrade from the TPP convers
client.
>
> Thanks for any help anyone can provide.
>
> 73,
> John N8UR
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
--
73, Ronnie.
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