Hello Bob.

30 Jun 04 13:58, you wrote to Rod Gasson:

 BL>  Anyway, it seems to work. Minicom looks a hell of a lot like Telix,
 BL> and I'm tempted to see if I can use Linux on the BBS, even though
 BL> it will be a monumental waste of time.

It's only skin deep with minicom though, no salt scripting :(

 BL>  WINE is a dead loss, but DOSEMU for DOS programs works really well.
 BL> I can even do interrupt calls in dosemu.

That's good.

 BL>  My little network is up and running now, with Samba feeding the
 BL> Win98 machine. I had planned to run the Linux machine as a complete
 BL> PC, and eventually phase Windows out. I actually *like* Windows.
 BL> Apart from the Net and Microsoft's open-door policy, my only problem
 BL> with Windows is the way Gates upgrades every three years, and makes
 BL> the older versions totally obsolete in about six years.

 BL>  I'm still happy to use Win311, but there is no video driver for my
 BL> new card. With Linux, nothing ever goes out of date and if it does,
 BL> you download the latest version free.

The latest version of Xwindows has no driver for my video card... :(
still this old PC is decidedly sluggish with this version of linux...

Jasen


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