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WWIVnet

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 14:41:59 -0600

From: jahmas @1410000 *1
To: All @ *0
Subject: WWIVnet

In as much as WWIVnet has been changed over to BinkD / FTN type network, how
difficult would it be to configure for Virtual Advanced? I could use Radius /
Argus as a mailer and VNet for the tosser?

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Which OS for VA BBS

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 05:47:01 -0500

From: jahmas @1410000 *1
To: Steve Winn @1 *1
Subject: Which OS for VA BBS

Re: Which OS for VA BBS

> Re: Which OS for VA BBS
> Easiest is to use the 32-bit version of Windows 10. Of course that is becomin
> unsupported this fall. To use a 64-bit OS, you'll have to install NTVDMx64. I
> haven't written any instructions on doing that, but you'll find information
> about it if you search.
> Steve

There will be lot's of upset about Windows 10 being unsupported. I think
we've been through this before. Is anyone ported to Linux?

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Which OS for VA BBS

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 15:53:13 -0500

From: Steve Winn @1 *1
To: neo67 @1 *1
Subject: Which OS for VA BBS

Re: Which OS for VA BBS

> Hi,
>
> I aks me, which OS I can use for AVBBS?

Easiest is to use the 32-bit version of Windows 10. Of course that is becoming
unsupported this fall. To use a 64-bit OS, you'll have to install NTVDMx64. I
haven't written any instructions on doing that, but you'll find information
about it if you search.

Steve

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Which OS for VA BBS

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:28:34 -0500

From: neo67 @1 *1
To: All @ *0
Subject: Which OS for VA BBS

Hi,

I aks me, which OS I can use for AVBBS?

Greetz & THX
neo67

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Micronet tossing

Sun, 17 Nov 2024 17:50:56 -0600

From: Steve Winn @1 *1
To: Jahmas @1 *1
Subject: Micronet tossing

Re: Micronet tossing

> Are you using QWK or FTN for Micronet?

FIDO

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Micronet tossing

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 10:45:47 -0600

From: Jahmas @1 *1
To: All @ *0
Subject: Micronet tossing

Are you using QWK or FTN for Micronet?

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Using 7zip with VADV

Sat, 23 Nov 2019 07:31:34 -0600

From: jahmas @1410000 *1
To: Steve Winn @1 *1
Subject: Using 7zip with VADV

Re: Using 7zip with VADV

> Re: Using 7zip with VADV
> And I broke the network with 7zip.. ignore that post. It was not correctly
> overwriting existing files even with the -aoa parameter.

Thought tossing went down a bit :O

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Using 7zip with VADV

Thu, 21 Nov 2019 16:01:03 -0600

From: Havok @1352000 *1
To: Steve Winn @1 *1
Subject: Using 7zip with VADV

Re: Using 7zip with VADV

> And I broke the network with 7zip.. ignore that post. It was not correctly
> overwriting existing files even with the -aoa parameter.

One word, opps!

Using 7zip with VADV

Wed, 20 Nov 2019 18:48:45 -0600

From: Steve Winn @1 *1
To: Steve Winn @1 *1
Subject: Using 7zip with VADV

Re: Using 7zip with VADV

And I broke the network with 7zip.. ignore that post. It was not correctly
overwriting existing files even with the -aoa parameter.

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Using 7zip with VADV

Thu, 14 Nov 2019 22:13:03 -0600

From: Steve Winn @1 *1
To: All @ *0
Subject: Using 7zip with VADV

Tonight I was looking to use 7zip for all archiving needs. Here are the strings
I came up with. These are generic but are generally the same for all formats.
<format> is the file type (zip, arj, 7z, gz, bzip2, ...)

Add: 7z.exe a -t<format> %1 %2 >NUL
Move: 7z.exe a -t<format> -sdel %1 %2 >NUL
Extract: 7z.exe e -o%3 -y %1 %2 >NUL
View: 7z.exe l %1 >%2
Test: 7z.exe t %1 >%2
Comment: rem (unsupported)

Here are the formats I currently have configured here plus their hex ids:
- supports add/move -
zip 504b
7z 377ABCAF271C
gzip 1F8B
bzip2 425A68

- only supports extract, view and test -
arj 60EA
cab 4D534346
lzh 002D6C68
rar 526172211A07

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Next question

Thu, 18 Apr 2019 04:22:47 -0500

From: Havok @1352000 *1
To: All @ *0
Subject: Next question

Hello Steve

I have never tried this with VBBS or VA so how do you copy ansi art on the
telent side and the web side.

Also I see in TAGS [img] image.gif [/img] but don't see a upload or a url
option.

Thanks again.

-Havok

upload ansi

Sat, 13 Apr 2019 07:13:22 -0500

From: Havok @1352000 *1
To: jahmas @1410000 *1
Subject: upload ansi

> Ok, my feeble brain forgot how to upload an ansi or text file into a message
> base. I remember now. Let me try this in another sub.

So did you figure it out?

-=Havok

-Havok

Uploads and Protocols

Tue, 15 Jan 2019 13:57:33 -0600

From: jahmas @1410000 *1
To: All @ *0
Subject: Uploads and Protocols

I tried to upload an ansi into the BBS Ads section of Vnet. This was never
an issue for me but now it is not happening. I have the file available in the
host pc and it just doesn't want to upload. I haven't changed anything with
this board in years so I am missing something simple I am sure.

Mysteria Majicka BBS: Cape Cod Massachusetts. Running Virtual Advanced BBS on
10 Nodes. VirtualNet / AspectNet,telnet://majicka.at2k.org or majicka,no-ip.org

upload ansi

Sat, 15 Dec 2018 06:20:33 -0600

From: jahmas @1410000 *1
To: All @ *0
Subject: upload ansi

Ok, my feeble brain forgot how to upload an ansi or text file into a message
base. I remember now. Let me try this in another sub.

Mysteria Majicka BBS: Cape Cod Massachusetts. Running Virtual Advanced BBS on
10 Nodes. VirtualNet / AspectNet,telnet://majicka.at2k.org or majicka,no-ip.org

VADV 2.10 User Editor

Mon, 03 Sep 2018 19:44:14 -0500

From: Steve Winn @1931000 *1
To: Brian @1931000 *1
Subject: VADV 2.10 User Editor

Re: VADV 2.10 User Editor

> I am trying to figure out the user editor, it's says in the docs to press ! t
> delete a user, I did that nothing appeared to happen, so I tried to log in
> locally, but couldn't as the user did in fact delete, but how would I remove
> from the waiting for calls user editor?

The user record (user number) will still exist. A new user will take over that
record number. In VADV32, those records will be marked as "available".

Steve

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