G'Day Sean,

14 Jul 03 00:18, you wrote to me:

 RVR>> Welcome...

 SD> Thanks!

 RVR>> Ahh well that should take all of 5 minutes :-)

 SD> I'll be dropping about nine networks (that will help some).

You know thats exactly what I did when I changed over. It was more fear of
the unknown and the fact I hadn't really touched my OS/2 ftn for ages.

Guess what, I made a mistake, I should have done all the networks first time!
MBSE is rather easy if you take your time, don't try and set it all up in a
single sitting or a day. Start from the top of the mbsetup program and go
through every entry while viewing the html docs for explanations. It will
take some time doing it all but you won't miss bits and later wonder why
something is hard to change or why is not working.

 SD> Question I have: whenever I log into the board, I see the ANSI color,
 SD> but nothing but garbage for the high-ASCII characters in the ANSI files.
 SD> Do you or anyone else know how to fix that?

Hmm thats something to do with your terminal character set in linux. Do you
have TERM=linux in your .profile? Most default to this. Or are you talking
logging in remotely?

 SD> I'm running Mandrake 9.1.  If you want to see the board in action
 SD> (it's
 SD> still being worked on), SSH (not telnet-you'll get my OS/2 board) to
 SD> midnightshour.org and take a peek.

Umm tried that.. didn't get the mblogin screen :-) Are you sending the
request to mblogin?

 SD> Any and all help is appreciated.  This is rather exciting for me.  I
 SD> looked at all of the other Linux-based BBSes (to include the new
 SD> Maximus/Linux) and just decided MBSE was the one for me. :)

Well, rather then use ssh if you are doing stuff remotely, i would suggest
just assigning a different port to telnet in your /etc/services file and thus
allowing your inetd.conf to retain correct information for telnet and
mblogin.

I couldn't login at all under ssh, not even using "bbs" which is
the default
new user account creation for mbse.

I used to use Maximus OS/2, MBSE is a better setup then Max/Squish/whatever.
It may lack a few things because it doesn't include its own language to write
screens etc in, but mbse is overall far simpler and more sysop friendly.

Oh and don't forget your dosemu for the dos doors :-)

Cheers,
                Rick

... New computer? But I like my vacuum tubes... They keep me warm.
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