Hello Gerry.
23 Nov 97 19:37, Gerry Ellison wrote to Maurice Kinal:
 GE> Hello Maurice!
 GE>       Yes I have run Bink - Max - Squish for a long time. Bink will
 GE>       talk with almost everyone. Squish is good and Max v3.01 is the
 GE>       most versatile BBS I have tried. The price is RIGHT. all free
 GE>       for noncommercial use.
 GE>       Some tricky Bat,s that worked with Dos v6.22 will not work with
 GE>       QpenDos v7.01. &.02 broke all but the most simple Bats.
I am headed back to the Island for a couple of days on Wed. and will be 
getting rid of Win95 off this laptop.  It was a gift from a geophysicist 
friend of mine in Texas and he got suckered into that ideology that you have 
to learn Windows to stay competitve.  What's to learn?  Don't answer that 
since this discussion is for another echo... 
I will be installing OpenDos 7.01 on here as well as Binkley and Maximus.  I 
already have Squish (I love it!!!) installed so that is not a problem.  This 
way I can mirror ZOLTAN (my BBS btw) on my laptop and be able to configure 
Maximus on it and thus track any errors that may occur.  Since I have been 
away (almost 2 months now) ZOLTAN only hung once and I had to get one of my 
neices to reboot it.  The error on the screen was "Can't locate RUN.BAT" or 
something like that.  It sounded to me like somehow it got caught up in a 
wrong directory when Maximus exited.  I can't really understand how this 
happened but perhaps it is as simple as some secondary bat file has it 
pointing to a wrong directory but who knows???  Maybe I will put a daily 
event in Binkley to do a warm reboot at midnight so as to start afresh 
everyday.  ??????  I really hate to monkey around with it too much when I 
will be away from it for so long (probably till the new year) but the laptop 
affords me to monkey around here and if I screw it up I can always start anew 
without causing any interference with the board.
The point to my long winded response you ask?  I want to test all my MS DOS 
6.22 bat files with OpenDos 7.01 and see where problems might occur.  So far 
I have had only one and I am not 100% sure why.
And yes...Maximus is a great system.  I have been using it since v2.0 and am 
not likely to change, unless of course I install Linux on the 486.  Hmmmmm... 
maybe there should be a Linux version of Maximus!!!
Maurice
... Flatlanders --- "There can be only fun!"
--- GoldED 2.50+
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