Some senseless babbling from Larry Evans to Mike Ruskai
on 07-20-97  08:44 about Server questions...
 MR> Vmodem), a  FTP server (using Penguin FTP now - would like to know
 MR> any alternatives  believed to be better), and a HTTP server (Apache
 MR> 1.1.3).
 LE> We run ZFTPD, as I found that PENFTP caused odd hangs and is a bit
 LE> cranky from time to time. ZFTP is much faster and altough a bit of a
 LE> nuisance to work with it still beats penftp hands down for speed and
 LE> durability. 
The thing that I like about Penguin is the way it handles drives in OS/2 - 
it treats them as directories, so that f:\tcpip would be /f/tcpip.  I have 
a copy of ZFTP sitting here, so I'll have a look at it.
 MR> The questions:
 
 MR> 1)  Anyone know of good SMTP/POP3 server software that is free or
 MR> nearly free? My goal is free e-mail for my BBS users.
 LE> Hethmon Brothers mail server.
Have that set up, currently inactive.  The price tag is a bit steep for 
someone who's about to become a poor college student.  Unless I find 
something else, though, I'll bite the bullet, because it's an excellent 
package.
 
 MR> 2)  Anyone know a good newsgroup  fido gating program?  I've
 MR> tried  something called NGATE, but it's ridiculously slow
 MR> retrieving news - only  about 1500-4000 bytes per second, whereas
 MR> my newsreader routinely pulls  120,000 bytes per second out of it.
 LE> Watergate.
Got a source for that in case I can't find it?
 
 MR> 3)  Is there a version of Apache for OS/2 later than 1.1.3?
 LE> Ya got me there, we run a tiny little free web server that seems to do
 LE> the job. I'll try to dig up the name for you. Check the site.
Does it support CGI?
Mike Ruskai [Team OS/2]
thanny@home.com
... BASIC programmers never die, they just GOSUB and never RETURN.
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