Hallo Bo,

Op 10 Apr 04 schreef Bo Simonsen aan Hans Beekhuizen:

 BS> There are fundemental things I doesn't like about MBSE:
 BS> 1. It's using JAM, anyhow I could live with that.

There's not anything wrong with JAM, is there?

 BS> 2. It's using UNIX accounts for users (I can't live with that).

Why not?

 BS> 3. It's uses Binary configuration files (I can't live with that).

I agree that that's sometimes a bit annoying.  Although one gets more er less 
used to it after a while.

 BS> - Maximus is more smart it's "compiles" a plain ASCII configuration
 BS> file and take it from there.

Oh yes, the famous mecca :)  I wonder if mbse couldn't use something like 
that as well.  I'll ask Michiel...

 HB>> been running Maximus and Squish under MS-Dos since March 1992!
 BS> Okay. :) It's good and very stable software even on UNIX! :)

When I chenged to Linux, it didn't exist yet...  And if somebody would be 
kind enough to port GIGO [for the Fidonet  Internet gating] I might go 
back to them.

 BS> I allways wanted to learn Fortran but I'm not studying a place where
 BS> they are using that.

I don't think that would be very useful.  Nobody uses it any more.  The last 
two years I've not seen one single vacancy that asked for Fortran.  Om the 
other hand: *if* there would be one, the chance that you would get the job is 
quite big.

Groetjes,

           Hans.

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