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I hadn't worked on the BBS much after that last post.
I am finally back setting it up and now have it running on a real DOS machine with TCP/IP running.

I made a quick mod of the BBS.BAT file to do what I wanted.

if I start the bbs with "bbs.bat go exit" it will autostart and then exit to DOS ...

I don't think an Exit can work - The main BBS screen is still running as an EXE and it does not look like its exiting one exe and opening another but I suppose its possible. The BAT file is kind of a big one and I have not walked thru every part of it yet.

I wrote a small app so I can start monitor and and stop my MBBS via scheduled job or windows service easily.

This works well only I have one remaining issue...

I would love to figure out how to exit to DOS automatically when shutting down MBBS via the console or remotely.

I am getting ready to ...

I wrote a small app so I can start monitor and and stop my MBBS via scheduled job or windows service easily.

This works well only I have one remaining issue...

I would love to figure out how to exit to DOS automatically when shutting down MBBS via the console or remotely.

I am getting ready to ...

I have been trying to find someone willing to give or sell this for some time now. Is there none in existence anymore?
If anyone can provide any info on where best to look for this or better yet, has it, please let me know. I would be interested in add-ons as well if available.

I was a sysop(one of ...