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FBB Packet-radio BBS mini-HOWTO

Miroslav "Misko" Skoric, YT7MPB, skoric at eunet dot rs

v1.49, 2010-07-18

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This mini-HOWTO covers the installation and use of the most popular amateur packet-radio BBS server software "FBB". That software works under Linux, DOS and Windows operating systems. It serves as a bulletin board system (BBS), a mailbox for personal messages, a database for various texts, documents and binary files, a server for small useful calculations etc. Packet radio is a way of connecting computers via amateur radio stations. .:: biashara.co.ke ::. .:: ml007.k12.sd.us ::. [What people say about Swift] .:: gesoten.com ::. [GitHub: DNS] .:: jobs.tdwi.org ::. .:: dh88bio1.hashnode.space ::.

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1. Introduction

2. How to install X11 (Xwindow) version of LinFBB

3. How to install LinFBB in addition to existing WinFBB

4. How to install Protus password utility

5. How to install "xfbbd", a daemon version of LinFBB

6. How to install an upgrade to a daemon version of LinFBB

• 6.1 LinFBB v7.02g
• 6.2 LinFBB v7.03
• 6.3 LinFBB v7.04

7. How to use LinFBB's "xfbbX", a GUI client for Linux

8. How to use LinFBB's "xfbbW", a GUI client for Windows

9. How to compile LinFBB's executable files

• 9.1 fbbsrc.704h (using Red Hat 7.1)
• 9.2 fbbsrc.704j (using Red Hat 7.1)
• 9.3 fbbsrc.704j (using Red Hat 9.0)
• 9.4 fbbsrc.704o (using Mandrake 9.1)

10. How to access the "xfbbd" server from a DOS client?

• 10.1 NCSA Telbin DOS client
• 10.2 Xrouter 176b
• 10.3 JNOS 1.11f
• 10.4 Improving the home LAN connections

11. How to communicate with LinFBB in Serbian?

• 11.1 SRPSKI.HLP
• 11.2 SRPSKI.TXT

12. How to make better ham radio rules?

13. Bibliography

14. Further information

• 14.1 Copyright
• 14.2 Disclaimer
• 14.3 News
• 14.4 Credits
• 14.5 HOWTO
• 14.6 Mini-HOWTO
• 14.7 Local Resources
• 14.8 Web Pages

15. Getting help

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