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echo: fidosoft.husky
to: Maurice Kinal
from: Russell Tiedt
date: 2004-09-12 21:47:38
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Hello Maurice.

12 Sep 04 09:46, you wrote to me:

 RT>> Well, let me conceed, there might be a few who don't ...

 MK> It certainly appears that way.  In my particular case and situation
 MK> nodelist diff's would be less meaningful then it is for you.  I've
 MK> used them in the past but haven't in over a decade.  I don't even have
 MK> a compiler.  What for?

You are, shal I say, fortunate, ... 

 RT>> Maybe, it was in a change.log somewhere, but when installing a
 RT>> package I
 RT>> always read the INSTALL file for install instructions.

 MK> To be quite honest I don't remember where I read it or even that I
 MK> compiled areafix seperately.  I was and am distracted at the moment by
 MK> other issues.

Not that it matters now, seems to be working, am having fun, re-doing my 
makenl installation, sorting out a very messy install. Hopefully with out 
breaking anything. 

 RT>> It has worked fine after fixing the areafix thing, hpt, htick and
 RT> RT>> sqpack are installed, fastlst is busy compiling, msged next,
 RT>> then BinkD & binkley term, then I have a complete system, albeit,
 RT>> lacking a BBS, but as a test point, more than adequate.

 MK> For a point that is overkill.  A test hub seems more appropriate.
 MK> Even a node doesn't need all that.  Like I said I don't need msged on
 MK> the node, only on the point.  I seem to have gotten away with just hpt
 MK> and all the libs on the node.  Looks to be doing it's job so far.

All that is left, now is Binkley Term, but seeing as that box will have to 
wait awhile before it gets a modem, that does not need imidiate attention.

Russell

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