-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 RJT> The two
 RJT> calls so far today have brought in 275,  and there's one more due at
 RJT> 8pm,  when this will go out.  Admittedly I do carry somewhat more than
 RJT> 30 echos.  

 WC> Can't imagine not using an OLR.

 RJT> I've known sysops who did,  but that never made a whole lot of sense to
 RJT> me,  to pack up messages into bundles that get unpacked somewhere else
 RJT> on the same machine...

Well I don't currently run a BBS though with my current
little phone use...

 RJT> I rather like the idea of an editor that goes right into the same
 RJT> message bases that the bbs uses.

 I rather imagine I'd go that way myself on a BBS if I had
 one. Seems I misinterpreted the original post.
 Actually I _have_ software for 2 different BBS setups but no 
 current space for them.

 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.

It is, I get regular update information from Sourceforge
regarding his OLR. In fact I once mentioned to Mr. McBrine that 
I thought the default on MM should be to save uploaded messages
instead of purging them and the next release that change was
implemented :-) There's a prompt screen on opening MM for both
save messages and read bulletin and all too often I'd hit enter
twice both opening MM and deleting unsent messages :-(
I grew annoyed at having written extensive 
texts, inadvertantly deleted them before uploading only to find
the cluster unrecoverable due to having been overwritten.

 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.

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

 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.

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

 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.

 I suspect I've got that right NOW. I just need to set the correct
 environment setting and place the configured file where
 it's looked for. 
 I looked up the scan rates for this monitor and the old
 Sastoroids game version of "Asteroids" already recognizes
 and uses my video chip and driver rather than the default VGA.
 Exiting the game yields up that bit of information
 AAMOF I need to delete one copy of XF86Config I've saved
 in a second location. So far no 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.

 I'm just snagging it off the net.
 There's a new "Victor" release linked to the Basic Linux
 site that occupies under 350 meg full install for a 486
 with 16 meg RAM. A Canadian offers his particular "Victor" 
 release shipped 15 dollars U.S. with manual.
 Seems a lot of people on the net are hacking minimal installs 
 for both legacy and more modern hardware, most are free.
 Heck I only downloaded Basic Linux 1.7 2 months ago and now
 it's BL 1.8.
 
 WC> Read my old Slackware book and found it
 WC> wanting in many areas but one place it excells and that's the
 WC> explaination of the VI editor which though less comprehensive gets
 WC> me going again far quicker than the book I have on that editor.

 

 RJT> I'm *real* lazy about editors,  am awfully familiar with good old
 RJT> WordStar, Qedit,  and similar stuff,  and under linux tend to use the
 RJT> one that mc gives you.  
 
I've been a bit lazy in that priority too and so am currently using
three editors on two Linux releases, four if you include VIM
which I'm not yet up to speed on.

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

I keep hearing you NEED to know VIM or VI, all but one
extranious command the same, in a rescue situation
as that may be the only editor available on rescue disks.
Fortunately I've retained the ramdrive Basic Linux so I can muck
about with the hard drive version in hda2 or my old release
of Slackware in hda4. I really, short of a total disk failure,
don't see three partitions corrupting or failing at the same time.
Come to think of it I _should_ make another backup of my
current MBR with FIPS as it's been rather radically modified.
My current backup reflects only a single large DOS partition 
while in reality it's now 1/2 DOS with the other half divided
up between 2 Linux native and 1 Linux swap.

 
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