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to: Scott Little
from: mark lewis
date: 2015-05-19 10:08:24
subject: What BBS Software Runs on Linux?

On Tue, 19 May 2015, Scott Little wrote to mark lewis:

 SL>  [ On 2015-05-09 at 22:12:44, mark lewis wrote to Shawn Highfield ]

 ml> if it were elebbs, the pascal source is definitely available... it 
 ml> is also FPC compatible, i think... maybe not... it may have been VP

 SL> Definitely VP compatible and more or less FPC compatible (I seem 
 SL> to remember an issue with serial ports on particular versions of 
 SL> FPC).

yeah, i haven't done anything with it, yet... if/when i do, it will be with FPC...

 ml> compatible... i don't recall but i have it here from its github 
 ml> repository ;)

 SL> Don't know how recent those are... I haven't done any work for a 
 SL> few years and I don't remember the last time Maarten did.

what's in maarten's github is v1.0 with a request to send him updates so he
can apply them... there have been no additions or updates since maarten
created that repo...

 ml> do you know if scott has a public accessible repo for his builds 
 ml> of ele??

 SL> It's been so long since I've touched the source I don't remember 
 SL> what state it's in.

i can understand that :) 

 SL> Recompiled binaries from the current source tree, unsure if this 
 SL> revision has been tested though.

 SL> Source: http://sysgod.org/temp/20130208/elebbs-20130208_src.zip
 SL> OS/2 VirtualPascal:
 SL> http://sysgod.org/temp/20130208/elebbs-20130208_os2vp.zip Win32
 SL> VirtualPascal:
 SL> http://sysgod.org/temp/20130208/elebbs-20130208_w32vp.zip Win32
 SL> FreePascal:
 SL> http://sysgod.org/temp/20130208/elebbs-20130208_w32fp.zip 

 SL> The ones on my BBS are from 2008 (!!), except for EleServ which is
 SL> more current since that what I was working on mostly.  Those old
 SL> binaries are still on PCMicro:
 SL> http://pcmicro.com/elebbs/binaries.htm

thanks... i'll take a look :) 

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