BPQ32 is node software which is current and maintained. There are Linux and Windows versions; the Linux version is known as LinBPQ.

LinBPQ is a highly configurable and flexible piece of software - this makes it fairly complex.

A BPQ node offers standard applications for chat and mailbox (BBS) and can be extended to support custom applications. Here is a guide for adding a custom application to a BPQ node.

Our guide to installing a LinBPQ node on a Debian-like OS is here: linbpq-apt-installation

Here are some miscellaneous hints and tips on BPQ configuration.

To help new (packet) users when connecting to your node, you can offer a description of your set-up under the node 'info' command. Likewise a node'help' file can also be quite useful.

Your installation/variant of BPQ may or may not arrive with any of these files. Mine didn't!

Typical contents could be:

A welcome message
Your ID - GB7XXX (+SSID) for your node -Your locator
Other SSIDs accessible on your node
Your ports
Your BPQ version and machine it is hosted on

Create a .txt file into your BPQ host folder and save it as 'INFO.txt'

Like the INFO file, above. Create a .txt file containing virtually anything you wish (but not too long!) into your BPQ host folder called 'NodeHelp.txt'

After all this, restart BPQ. Good luck!

Sometimes you just NEED a log; but be aware that SD cards do not really like to many writes. Using the HTML interface, you will find on the Main Node Page a button marked “View Logs”. Here you are able to view a number of logs by date. The los are:

• BBS Log [disabled by default]
• BBS Debug Log [ disabled by default]
• Telnet Log [enabled by default]
• CMS Log [disabled by default]
• Chat Log [enabled by default]

As I find methods of enabling/disabling these log I will update here.

Enabled/disabled by a command hidden in linmail.cfg - Log_BBS = 0; Change to 1 to enable. You will need to stop the BPQ service before editing linmail.cfg

Anybody?

Anybody?

Anybody?

Anybody ?

Traditionally there has been was for bulletin board (BBS) users to “page the Sysop”. This would alert the BBS owner that someone wanted to chat.
We can set up a command in BPQ to achieve the same goal.
QtTermTCP#Listen
Todo: Gotta Arduino this so an LED gets lit

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