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# FBB Packet-radio BBS mini-HOWTO

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

v1.49, 2010-07-18

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.

## 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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