• RIP

    From GREG YOUNGBLOOD@VERT/SPACESST to All on Fri Feb 1 00:12:00 2019
    Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 12:33:42 -0400
    From: GREG YOUNGBLOOD
    To: MICHAEL PURDY
    Subject: RIP
    Newsgroups: win.server.program
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    Hello Michael

    Could you tell me if WinServer still supports RIP?

    Thanks


    Greg


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  • From MICHAEL PURDY@VERT/SPACESST to All on Fri Feb 1 00:12:00 2019
    Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 21:58:20 -0400
    From: MICHAEL PURDY
    To: all
    Subject: RE: RIP
    Newsgroups: win.server.program
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    In light of the obsolete status of 16 bit centric BBS RIP I doubt this
    thread will attract a great deal of attention. However, as it may assist someone in the future I will make a couple of observations.

    The capacity to detect RIP exists in Wildcat! v5 to v7, but it is not implemented by default in MAIN.WCC.

    The code to display an alternate set of *.RIP or dispR.BBS files does not currently exist at all in the relevant ANSI Side modules.

    You can implement the ability to detect RIP and its associated Version

    Connected with Telnet. Ansi detected. - Detected RIP Version: 030001

    As you will see above I am successfully detecting RIP Version 3. I do not
    have a working RIP v1 or v2 emulator so I cannot test backwards
    compatibility. However, my testing was based on the RIPv1 Specification so
    it should work with v1 to v3.

    Once you have detected RIP you can set a global session variable for the
    user and then display an alternate set of RIP files. I tested the concept
    of HELLOR1-HELLOR9.BBS and it worked fine.


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