{"id":933,"date":"2024-02-20T10:52:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T15:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/?p=933"},"modified":"2024-02-20T11:10:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T16:10:12","slug":"subtext-bbs-version-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/2024\/02\/20\/subtext-bbs-version-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Subtext BBS version 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Subtext is an amazing, modern, retro application for System 6 (and 7.1) Macs. It is written and maintained by Joshua Stein. It implements a full BBS with telnet, serial (modem), fsxNet (fidoMail\/Boards), uploads\/downloads, IP geolookup and now as of version 4, syslog.<\/p>\n

You can download Subtext 4 at Joshua’s site: https:\/\/jcs.org\/2024\/02\/19\/subtext4<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve been running SubText since I stumbled upon it a few years ago. My BBS is up at:<\/p>\n

telnet bbs.diller.org<\/pre>\n
And it’s been very fun to setup and maintain. I’m connected up to some fsxNodes and so there is always some new messages on the system. <\/p>\n
With syslog support I’ve added on a rsyslog server on my Pi that also serves as Appleshare server and it works great.<\/p>\n
You can find some easy directions here: https:\/\/pimylifeup.com\/raspberry-pi-syslog-server\/<\/a><\/p>\n
\"Screen<\/p>\n
pi@rascsi1:\/var\/log$ tail -f subtextbbs.log\nFeb 20 10:43:20 192.168.3.9 subtext: [modem] Read: OK\nFeb 20 10:43:20 192.168.3.9 subtext: [modem] Sending: ATV1S0=2&D2#015\nFeb 20 10:43:21 192.168.3.9 subtext: [modem] Read: OK\nFeb 20 10:43:21 192.168.3.9 subtext: [telnet] Listening on 192.168.3.9:23\nFeb 20 10:43:21 192.168.3.9 subtext: [db] Pruning session logs older than 180 days\nFeb 20 10:43:27 192.168.3.9 subtext: [board] Pruned 6 posts in FSX_STA older than 33 days\nFeb 20 10:43:27 192.168.3.9 subtext: [binkp] Connecting to n3.z21.bbs.dege.au (115.70.188.114) port 24554\nFeb 20 10:43:29 192.168.3.9 subtext: [binkp] Connected to Clearing Houz\nFeb 20 10:43:30 192.168.3.9 subtext: [binkp] Logged in successfully as 21:3\/178\nFeb 20 10:43:30 192.168.3.9 subtext: [binkp] Finished polling in 3 secs\nFeb 20 10:43:57 192.168.3.9 subtext: [ttyw0] New telnet connection from 192.168.3.33 (via trusted proxy)\nFeb 20 10:43:57 192.168.3.9 subtext: [ttyw0] [-] IAC NAWS 132, 74\nFeb 20 10:43:57 192.168.3.9 subtext: [ttyw0] [-] IAC TTYPE IS VT100\nFeb 20 10:43:57 192.168.3.9 subtext: [ttyw0] [-] Activating vt100 ANSI support for matching vt100\nFeb 20 10:43:57 192.168.3.9 subtext: [ttyw0] [-] IAC TSPEED IS 38400,38400\nFeb 20 10:43:57 192.168.3.9 subtext: [ttyw0] [-] NEWENV \"DISPLAY\" = \"\/private\/tmp\/com.apple.launchd.g7bfd9ngJM\/org.xquartz:0\"\nFeb 20 10:43:57 192.168.3.9 subtext: [ttyw0] [-] NEWENV \"USER\" = \"dillera\"\nFeb 20 10:44:03 192.168.3.9 subtext: [ttyw0] [-] Successful password login for user massive<\/pre>\n
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Subtext is an amazing, modern, retro application for System 6 (and 7.1) Macs. It is written and maintained by Joshua Stein. It implements a full BBS with telnet, serial (modem), fsxNet (fidoMail\/Boards), uploads\/downloads, IP geolookup and now as of version 4, syslog. You can download Subtext 4 at Joshua’s site: https:\/\/jcs.org\/2024\/02\/19\/subtext4 I’ve been running SubText […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac","category-subtext"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3PE01-f3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":911,"url":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/2023\/05\/14\/mactcp-system-6-error-codes\/","url_meta":{"origin":933,"position":0},"title":"MacTCP System 6 Error Codes","author":"dillera","date":"May 14, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"With my new project (running a BBS on my Macintosh SE in System 6) using SubText an amazing modern BBS software server from JCS (Joshua Stein) I've encountered some System Errors- and like most things on the Internet today they are hard to google for (it seems like the world\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Apple"","block_context":{"text":"Apple","link":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/category\/apple\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Screen Shot 2023 05 14 at 12 28 47 PM","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dillernet.com\/apple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Screen-Shot-2023-05-14-at-12.28.47-PM.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1055,"url":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/2024\/11\/14\/mactcp-done-right\/","url_meta":{"origin":933,"position":1},"title":"MacTCP Done Right","author":"dillera","date":"November 14, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"After many months of dancing with MacTCP again (first round was decades ago of course) I decided to do it Right and get to the latest most patchiest version to see if it would help with some issues I\u2019m having. 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