TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: locsysop
to: Alan Whitemore
from: Roy Mcneill
date: 1993-10-19 23:13:00
subject: point

Hi Alan
 
 PE> Hello Alan, I reckon if you really wanted to, you could get all the stuff
 PE> you REALLY needed to do pointing with genuine software onto a single
 PE> floppy.  Would you be interested in attempting to do so, so that we can
 PE> give it to others to try (hard disk space seems to be their major beef).
 PE> BFN.

 AW> In compressed form, or as a configuration ready to run directly off
 AW> floppy?

 AW> A minimal install on hard drive with the nodelist right cut down
 AW> should run to about 2-3 meg. It all depends on what can be pared, such
 AW> as the FD editor, all of the docs, and the golded nodelist compiler.
 AW> Even with all of that, it still runs to over 1.4 meg. Even without any
 AW> msgbase. I tried it this morning.

But to run as a point off a single bbs, you shouldn't need a
nodelist and all its support stuff, should you? That's how I run my
Bink setup at home...

Cheers
___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12

SOURCE: echomail via fidonet.ozzmosis.com

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.