Wayne Chirnside wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

WC>  Actually I _have_ software for 2 different BBS setups but no  
WC> current space for them.

You don't need that much if you don't intend to have big piles of files for
download.  I may end up putting some stuff on cd here,  we'll see.  I have
this vague recollection of Matt sending me drivers for those 4x4 drives
that'd work under _dos_ (!) and if so,  I may put one or both of them in
this box, and free up a bunch of HD space for use elsewhere.  We'll see...

WC> Can't wait to setup the OLR in Linux, I've downloaded two, ATP and
WC> my familiar MultiMail.

RJT> Multimail seems to be very well supported.  And the author hangs out in
RJT> the LINUX echo,  among other places.

WC> It is, I get regular update information from Sourceforge regarding 
WC> his OLR. In fact I once mentioned to Mr. McBrine that  I thought 
WC> the default on MM should be to save uploaded messages instead of 
WC> purging them and the next release that change was implemented :-)

He also comes across as really knowing what he's talking about.

WC> There's a prompt screen on opening MM for both save messages and 
WC> read bulletin and all too often I'd hit enter twice both opening MM 
WC> and deleting unsent messages :-( I grew annoyed at having written 
WC> extensive texts, inadvertantly deleted them before uploading only 
WC> to find the cluster unrecoverable due to having been overwritten.

Hmm.

WC> My Linux project is moving forward in spurts due to poor health. 
WC> I'll work at it for a few days at a time than need a break. Much
WC> progress made but much more to go.

RJT> I have made hardly any progress on computer stuff here,  but at least
RJT> am making some slight progress on vehicular matters.

WC> Due to my slow progress on saving funds I'm thinking about swapping 
WC> the A and C drive from this machine into the Pentium, slaving the 
WC> large damaged drive, mapping out the bad sectors with Linux and 
WC> going that way. Else I must wait until March to proceed.

You'll get there,  one way or another.

WC> Still haven't figured out what Verizon mail wants for
WC> authentication in SMTP despite many attempts. I've got to figure
WC> out what file defines what is in the mail.conf file and what
WC> Verizon's SMTP wants for authemtication.

RJT> Somebody in the echo probably uses them.

WC> I've made two fido inquiries so far, no joy. Need to inquire in the
WC> alt.os.slackware.linux newsgroup.

There ya go.

Me,  the very thought of using them for that stuff puts a bad taste in my
mouth.  The phone company!  Yuck!  :-)

WC> One I get past that I may very well move to Linux as my primary 
WC> O.S. Still haven't got X-Windows running but haven't put much 
WC> effort in lately but think I'm *very* close to making that one 
WC> happen.

RJT> The hardest part of that is picking the right config lines to support
RJT> what hardware you have.

WC>  I suspect I've got that right NOW. I just need to set the correct 
WC> environment setting and place the configured file where
WC>  it's looked for.

That usually helps.  

WC>  I looked up the scan rates for this monitor and the old  
WC> Sastoroids game version of "Asteroids" already recognizes  and uses 
WC> my video chip and driver rather than the default VGA. Exiting the 
WC> game yields up that bit of information  AAMOF I need to delete one 
WC> copy of XF86Config I've saved in a second location. So far no 
WC> clutter in Linux and all my alterations have .backup file copies.

WC> Soon as X-Windows flies I'm nuking the old Slackware release and
WC> upgrading to 8.1

RJT> I have an 8.1 cd here but haven't thought much about doing the upgrade
RJT> just yet.

WC>  I'm just snagging it off the net.
WC>  There's a new "Victor" release linked to the Basic Linux
WC>  site that occupies under 350 meg full install for a 486
WC>  with 16 meg RAM. A Canadian offers his particular "Victor"  
WC> release shipped 15 dollars U.S. with manual.
WC>  Seems a lot of people on the net are hacking minimal installs  
WC> for both legacy and more modern hardware, most are free.
WC>  Heck I only downloaded Basic Linux 1.7 2 months ago and now  it's
WC> BL 1.8.

I'm going to have to get a hold of some of these mini-installs one of these days...



RJT> Maybe one of these days I'll have a go at learning one or more of 
RJT> the other ones that are on there.

WC> I keep hearing you NEED to know VIM or VI, all but one extranious 
WC> command the same, in a rescue situation as that may be the only 
WC> editor available on rescue disks.

I remember reading that it's available on darn near *any* linux/unix
system, in one form or another.  There's that...

WC> Fortunately I've retained the ramdrive Basic Linux so I can muck 
WC> about with the hard drive version in hda2 or my old release of 
WC> Slackware in hda4. I really, short of a total disk failure, don't 
WC> see three partitions corrupting or failing at the same time. Come 
WC> to think of it I _should_ make another backup of my current MBR 
WC> with FIPS as it's been rather radically modified. My current backup 
WC> reflects only a single large DOS partition  while in reality it's 
WC> now 1/2 DOS with the other half divided up between 2 Linux native 
WC> and 1 Linux swap.

Backups are good.  Hopefully I'll be able to make some progress in that
regard fairly soon...

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