I was searching through some old Dovenet threads and found many mentions of sysops who ran Synchronet inside of Qemu.
Is there anyone out there who runs Synchronet on their normal OS but uses Qemu
for DOS doors (similar to how linux Sync works with dosemu)?
If so, how do you launch/configure it to work with the BBS?
i think that the hard part must be to dynamic mount the "door"
filesystem into qemu, maybe via network share, but increase the startup
door time
i think that the hard part must be to dynamic mount the "door"
filesystem into qemu, maybe via network share, but increase the startup door time
Thanks, Ragnarok. Do you use qemu with your BBS?
Nop, i run Sync native on Debian, but i have several VM's on kvm/qemu
can you not use dosemu?
I’m trying to run Synchronet on my Mac. Right now dosemu doesn’t
I’m trying to run Synchronet on my Mac. Right now dosemu doesn’t
It seems your apostrophe characters are probably using a different
Re: Re: Qemu for DOS doors?
By: Nightfox to Kirkman on Wed Dec 05 2018 05:43 pm
I’m trying to run Synchronet on my Mac. Right now dosemu doesn’t
It seems your apostrophe characters are probably using a different
Yeah, that's me typing on a Mac web browser into the ecweb interface. Hopefully the world won't end.
It'd be cool if ecweb could do some unicode->ASCII conversion though.
Re: Re: Qemu for DOS doors?
By: Digital Man to Kirkman on Fri Dec 07 2018 13:42:57
It'd be cool if ecweb could do some unicode->ASCII conversion though.
I've tried to stay away from mangling the original message prior to storage, but it could be done. If I can find a vanilla JS iconv that will work on the server side, sure.
Re: Re: Qemu for DOS doors?
By: Nightfox to Kirkman on Wed Dec 05 2018 05:43 pm
I’m trying to run Synchronet on my Mac. Right now dosemu doesn’t
It seems your apostrophe characters are probably using a different
Yeah, that's me typing on a Mac web browser into the ecweb interface. Hopefully the world won't end.
We don't (officially, anyway) support unicode in the message bases, yet, so it'd be a good idea to sanitize the input. Or maybe there's someway in the input forms to tell the browser to send ASCII chars only?
Yeah, that's me typing on a Mac web browser into the ecwebinterface. Hopefully the world won't end.
It'd be cool if ecweb could do some unicode->ASCII conversion though.
Re: Re: Qemu for DOS doors?
By: Digital Man to Kirkman on Fri Dec 07 2018 01:42 pm
Yeah, that's me typing on a Mac web browser into the ecwebinterface. Hopefully the world won't end.
It'd be cool if ecweb could do some unicode->ASCII conversion though.
I don't know if it will help anyone, but I had this problem on my web interface too, it turns out Macs use 'smart quotes' rather than ordinary quotes - iconv choked on them until I learned about the TRANSLIT switch.
It seems your apostrophe characters are probably using a different encoding that's causing them to not be displayed well in a text terminal.
I noticed something similar from my messages when I did a few backreads via the BBS. It was obviously the text editor that was the culprit. As far as I recall, my text editor was using Unicode. I thought Unicode was backwards compatible with ASCII. As long as you're using an English keyboard, the codes are supposed to be identical?
Re: Re: Qemu for DOS doors?
By: Nightfox to Kirkman on Wed Dec 05 2018 05:43 pm
It seems your apostrophe characters are probably using a different encoding that's causing them to not be displayed well in a text terminal.
I noticed something similar from my messages when I did a few backreads via the BBS. It was obviously the text editor that was the culprit. As far as I recall, my text editor was using Unicode. I thought Unicode was backwards compatible with ASCII. As long as you're using an English keyboard, the codes are supposed to be identical? Obviously, I must be wrong on this, but
I'm not sure. I know ASCII uses 8-bit (or 7-bit?) values, and Unicode uses 16-bit values. I'm not sure the Unicode values for English characters are the same as the ASCII values.
MRO wrote to Chai <=-
i'm surprised someone is even using the web browser for regular msg
base use. the web interface msg system is pretty limited, i thought. i havent looked in a year or so.
Nightfox wrote to Chai <=-
I'm not sure. I know ASCII uses 8-bit (or 7-bit?) values, and Unicode uses 16-bit values. I'm not sure the Unicode values for English characters are the same as the ASCII values.
In this case a Mac was using some fancy apostrophes or something which were encoded into two or more bytes. Terminals expecting CP437 showed several characters in place of the intended one.
i'm surprised someone is even using the web browser for regular msg base use. the web interface msg system is pretty limited, i thought. i havent looked in a year or so.
Re: Encoding
By: Chai to Nightfox on Fri Dec 07 2018 11:33 pm
I noticed something similar from my messages when I did a few backreads via the BBS. It was obviously the text editor that was the culprit. As far as I recall, my text editor was using Unicode. I thought Unicode was backwards compatible with ASCII. As long as you're using an English keyboard, the codes are supposed to be identical?
I'm not sure. I know ASCII uses 8-bit (or 7-bit?) values, and Unicode uses 16-bit values.
I'm not sure the Unicode values for English characters are
the same as the ASCII values.
Re: Encoding
By: MRO to Chai on Sat Dec 08 2018 11:53 am
i'm surprised someone is even using the web browser for regular msg base use. the web interface msg system is pretty limited, i thought. i havent looked in a year or so.
ecweb v4 is pretty decent, IMO. It looks somewhat similar to other web message forum software packages.
I’m trying to run Synchronet on my Mac. Right now dosemu doesn’t
It seems your apostrophe characters are probably using a different encoding that's causing them to not be displayed well in a text
terminal.
Re: Re: Qemu for DOS doors?
By: Apam to Digital Man on Sat Dec 08 2018 10:16 am
people just shouldnt use macs!
Re: Encoding
By: Chai to Nightfox on Fri Dec 07 2018 11:33 pm
Re: Re: Qemu for DOS doors?
By: Nightfox to Kirkman on Wed Dec 05 2018 05:43 pm
i'm surprised someone is even using the web browser for regular msg base use. the web interface msg system is pretty limited, i thought. i havent looked in a year or so.
Nop, i run Sync native on Debian, but i have several VM's on kvm/qemu
can you not use dosemu?
I'm trying to run Synchronet on my Mac. Right now dosemu doesn't support MacOS, so I'm exploring alternatives.
(However the dosemu2 guy is being responsive and I plan to help trying to
get it to run on the Mac. But that may take quite a while.)
My BBS already lives in a Linux VM, and has since I launched it years ago. But I think I'd get a big speed boost hosting it directly on my Mac, so that's why I'm exploring this stuff. With Nelgin's help, we managed to compile SBBS on the Mac, and it does run. The main thing I lack is a way to run DOS doors.
Neat. Even without DOS door support, Synchronet on a Mac might be a very desireable thing for some folks. Do you have a how-to or could add one to wiki.synchro.net?
My BBS already lives in a Linux VM, and has since I launched it years ago. But
I think I'd get a big speed boost hosting it directly on my Mac, so that's why
I'm exploring this stuff. With Nelgin's help, we managed to compile SBBS on the
Mac, and it does run. The main thing I lack is a way to run DOS doors.
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