Outpost Packet Message Manager

BBS and PBBS Information
 

JNOS BBS

General Information:

22-Apr-07: JNOS is based on Phil KA9Q's ‘Network Operating System’ (NOS) for packet radio that was originally written back in the late 80’s.  JNOS is one of many variations of NOS that provides the amateur packet community with a BBS application environment with a strong emphasis on networking.  JNOS supports both the AX25 and TCP/IP protocols thereby making it an excellent test bed for understanding networking.

While JNOS was originally written to run on DOS PC’s, a JNOS 2.0 version has been created and released for Linux, Windows, OS/2, and MacOS X.

There are plenty of references for JNOS on the internet; search for "JNOS BBS".  The links below are excellent sources of JNOS information from Maiko VE4KLM (1st link), John KF8KK (first 2nd and 3rd links) and Karl KA1FSB (4th  link).
References:

http://www.langelaar.net/projects/jnos2/

http://www.legitimate.org/iook/packet/jnos/whetting/whetting.htm

http://www.legitimate.org/iook/packet/jnos/jnos-ops-1.htm

http://ka1fsb.home.att.net/jnos.html

Listing:

The following is an incomplete listing of a JNOS session as captured by a user.

 

cmd:c ve3zda-1

cmd:*** CONNECTED to VE3ZDA-1

[JNOS-2.0e-BFHIM$]

You have 1 message - 1 new.

ONB105:VE3ZDA-7 Area: ve3trj Current msg# 1.

KYZ,CVCNET,?,A,B,C,CONV,D,E,F,H,I,IH,IP,J,K,L,M,N,NR,O,P,PI,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Z

>

lm

Mail area: ve3trj

1 message - 1 new

St.  #  TO            FROM     DATE   SIZE SUBJECT

> N   1 kd6cmv        va3og    Apr 21  444 Greatings from down town

N   2 w6tdm         va3og    Apr 21  444 JNOS test message

ONB105:VE3ZDA-7 Area: kd6cmv Current msg# 1.

KYZ,CVCNET,?,A,B,C,CONV,D,E,F,H,I,IH,IP,J,K,L,M,N,NR,O,P,PI,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Z

>

rm

Message #2

Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 18:44:38 UTC

From: va3og@ve3zda.ampr.org

To: kd6cmv

Subject: jnos test message

test of message via JNOS

This is a test message.

abcdefghijk, etc.

 

ONB105:VE3ZDA-7 Area: kd6cmv Current msg# 1.

KYZ,CVCNET,?,A,B,C,CONV,D,E,F,H,I,IH,IP,J,K,L,M,N,NR,O,P,PI,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Z

>

km

1 message killed!

ONB105:VE3ZDA-7 Area: kd6cmv Current msg# 1.

KYZ,CVCNET,?,A,B,C,CONV,D,E,F,H,I,IH,IP,J,K,L,M,N,NR,O,P,PI,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Z

>

Outpost Notes:

IMPLEMENTATION
SID = [JNOS-2.0e-BFHIM$]
 Outpost looks for the "[JNOS" phrase of the SID as the means for identifying this BBS.

CONFIRMATION
Confirmed operational and released with the v2.2.1 distribution.

CONSIDERATIONS
none. 
BBS Notes:

SPECIAL CONFIGURATIONS, SETTINGS

There are some specific setups that need to be performed as part of the JNOS configuration as well as by the user.

 

1. Autoexec.nos file

Problems with specific JNOS settings have been reported and recommendations for their settings are made here.  This listing is not complete, and will be updated as new problems are identified and resolved.

mbox sendquery off

Typically located in the MBOX command group.  If ON, users will be queried if they really want to send the message after they have typed the ^Z or /ex when sending a message.  'N' or 'n' will abort, anything else will send the message.  

Outpost does not expect this prompt and will stop processing.  This setting should be set to OFF.

User Settings:

Outpost users of JNOS BBSs should be set up as EXPERTS.  The following JNOS commands should be executed during a manual BBS session before using Outpost.

 

XPERT BBS Commands

The Xpert command toggles the prompts that the system gives.  Three X commands should be set as follows:

  1. X : toggles between long and short prompts.  Set to Short Prompts.

  2. XA : toggles the 'current area' indication on or off; 
    Set to "XA OFF".

  3. XM : shows or sets the number of lines before -more- prompting occurs in lists.  Set "XM 0" to disable the -more- prompt from occurring. 

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updated:  April 26, 2008