Hello Gerrit.

07 Feb 03 10:17, you wrote to me:

 GK>>> Feel free to report your compiling problems with msged in
 GK>>> FIDOSOFT.HUSKY; we will hopefully be able to help you.

 RT>> From what I remember the current MsgEd, required some updated
 RT>> libraries on
 RT>> the e-smith box, and I have no intention fiddling with and
 RT>> updating the

 GK> Can you tell me which libs caused those problems? I must admit that
 GK> I've nerver heard of e-smith before. :)

Cannot tell you which libs caused the problems, sorry, cannot replicate 
either as I have recently removed all un-needed bits to gain much needed HDD 
space.

e-smith, now called Mitel? is a heavily scripted RedHat system, that results 
in an easy to setup and qyuick to use internet server and gateway system, but 
if you modify or add to it, you risk all you configs of the stuff you added, 
unless your are good at perl and other scripting and e-smith-ify you changes.

 RT>> libraries on that system, rather wait until I can upgade the box
 RT>> (486DX2 66,
 RT>> 630Meg HDD) and find the time to install a standard distro, and
 RT>> configure it
 RT>> to deliver the services the e-smith box currently delivers.

 GK> I see. However, if you have some HD-space to spare, you (or I) could
 GK> try to compile msged with the problematic libs statically linked.

Hmm ... just copied Msged 6.0.0, smapi-2.0.0,huskybse-0.2.0 and 
fidoconf-0.1.0c, and it compiled fine, tho, with my prior attempts, 
smapi-1.6.4 and other husky utils where installed, and a few other programs.

 RT>> Should JAM support be reported to work well in MsgEd, it will
 RT>> provided me
 RT>> some "momentum" towards doing a standard distro install and the
 RT>> hell

 GK> Sorry, I don't use JAM myself, so I cannot tell much about that
 GK> point...

Well on Linux, if you want to run a BBS, it would seem that JAM is the 
msgbase to use, Mystic supports JAM and Squish, but Squish has same status as 
JAM in Husky (MO), EleBBS also support JAM, MBSE support JAM.
Not many other BBS packages worth looking at currently, and no chance of 
Squish for MBSE BBS. so  I use JAM. :-((

Russell

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