> I just started looking at Adept BBS..
Good Choice, a man with taste.. 
 > First question, is there a way to install to a directory other then 
EPT??
There is but the base install is built around a home dir of \adept on any 
hpfs 
drive, it would take quite a bit of work to change all the files that depend 
on the home dir being called \adept. Why mess with it ??
 > Also, do multi nodes operate fine from 1 directory??  I'm use to TAG 
 > running each node in sep dir's & pointing to common files & such..
Adept is true multi-node, you fire up *ONE* copy of adept, and it handles 
however many nodes you want to run. Ie typing Adept /Nodes 5 at any os/2 
prompt in the adept home directory would fire up adept as a 5 node bbs. But 
you'll want to do a Adept /Nodes 5 /Setup first so you can point your 5 nodes 
to the proper com ports, pipes or set em up as telnet nodes. The /setup is 
essential as that's the only way to configure your nodes. Once you're 
configured choose shutdown from the pull down menus (don't just close it by 
clicking on the upper left corner icon) so adept will save your 
configuration. 
Then adept /nodes 5 will bring up all 5 nodes of your newly configured bbs. 
You monitor the nodes from one main PM window.. each node is a thread started 
by adept. Adept handles all the nodes itself. No need for multiple copies of 
tyhe exe, like you would have to do with tag. And no need for any more than 
one directory of anything adept needs, it's smart enough to know what to do 
with the files it needs to run.
 > When I ran the install .CMD I got several 'already exists' messages..  Not 
 > sure if it was referring to files or dir's..  Is this normal??
Haven't run install in a *LONG* time, don't remember if those messages were 
normal or not. Way to find out is to cd\adept and type adept /nodes 1 /setup, 
if it comes up and lets you configure the only node you started, chances are 
it's ok. Hint the \adept\logfiles can tell you a lot, in there you will find 
the main adept logfile (adept.log) and the logfiles for each node you 
started, 
(Line1.log,line2.log etc) these log files can help you a lot during initial 
setup and configuring, especially if your having a problem.
 > Lastly, I want to get ver 1.08 working first, then upgrade to the latest 
 > when I'm ready to go on line..  Does anyone see a prob with this, or 
should 
Get a basic 1.08f setup working first then upgrade, will be less confusing if 
something if something goes wrong.
 > I update as I set up..  It seems there's a lot of updates coming 
out..
A lot of good things are happening with adeptxbbs,thats why the barrage of 
updates. Heck it has been almost a year since the first update to 107f came 
out, I'm not gonna complain about a new build every day.. it'll slow down 
some 
as the major "things to do list" gets shorter and shorter.
Btw if u have 108f you have an install program to run, if you would rather 
not 
mess with the install program, there is an alternative, the file adpt109.zip 
contains a full \adept directory structure with a working basic 2 node bbs 
already setup, all you have to do is create an \adept dir on any hpfs drive, 
put adpt109.zip in it, use infozip's unzip to unzip that file in the \adept 
dir and then type adept /nodes 2 /setup, configure your com ports for each 
node, select shutdown, then in the \adept dir type adept /nodes 2 and you 
will 
be online with a 2 node bbs all your own. And the adpt109.zip is updated 
daily 
with any new builds I put out so you'll have the latest build running.
Hope you enjoy being an adeptxbbs sysop, i hang out in irc chat #adept if you 
have internet access. If not I read this echo regularly too.
... Hagar   :-)
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