In a message dated 01-27-04, Herbert Bushong said to Holger Granholm:

HB>No, but that's because there wasn't a native windows version of
HB>PCBoard.

Just as well. I wouldn't have trusted Windows to run a BBS 24/7 ;-)
There is however instructions in the manual how to install to Windows.

HB>It would have been a nightmare to port it too. It would
HB>probably have had to be completely re-written.

Maybe not as long as Windows ran on top of DOS but probably now.

HB>What I meant was, if you could find the commandline parameters, you
HB>could probably figure out what needed to go where (i.e. the ULP
HB>variables for the command line).

Well it ain't that important now when I found that COMMENT.TPL was the
culprit for the growth.

HB>Personally, a zip is a zip. I used registered pkz204 when I was in
HB>dos, but used InfoZip when I switched to OS/2 (ulp2 and pcb2).

That's exactly what I have done too although the switch to pkz250
crossed my mind when I contemplated why the zip files grew almost 1 kb
after having ran through ULP.

HB>But I still kept pkz204 around for program archives to AV stamp them.

I have kept the entire PCDOS setup intact and can switch the BBS to
DOS/DV just by booting to DOS and changing the active event files.

I'll probably never do it but it was nice to have that possibility
until I new how PCBoard2 worked under OS/2. It has now been running
24/7 for over 390 days.

It will have to start over again when I can get myself to change the
mobo to a slightly faster (AMD K6-233 instead of 486DX2/80). Also all
the expansion cards have to be changed from VLB to PCI except the
modem and sound cards as there are still 3 ISA expansion slots on that
old mobo.

I do in fact have everything needed except the energy .

Actually the only reason for the change is to allow me to use more
than 16 Mb RAM. When I go above that with this mobo it's like pulling
the handbrake on Netscape. I have only tested it with that program.

Have a nice day,

Holger

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