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Re: BBS Select-type program wanted

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From: Robert Novak
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:17
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rmccown@world.std.com (Bob McCown) writes:

>I'm looking for a program a'la BBS SELECT to allow my users to choose
>between 2 different BBS's.  Ive tried BBSMENU from garbo, but it wont do
>exactly what I want.  Any other ideas?

There are features that will allow this in two popular front-end mailer
packages, FrontDoor (FD202.*) and BinkleyTerm (various archives
available). Frontdoor calls it external mail (I think), and allows a
character input to select batch files. I don't know about BinkleyTerm, but
it might also have similar functions with similar ease. 

It would be selected from the ever-popular Press Escape Or Wait screen, so
you would list your BBSes in your banner file.

You might take a look at those two packages (FD only requires one big
archive, FD202.ARJ or FD202.LZH or FD202.ZIP, about 600K; BT comes in
separate executable and documentation archives)

Let me know what you find out, please... I might be amused by trying this
kind of setup.

Rob
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