Hello Robert!

Wednesday October 17 2018 18:38, you wrote to me:

 >> I have never tried bbbs as it is paid for software and as I am
 >> retired do not have funds to spend on such when there are more than
 >> enough FOC products.

 > Yeah, you know that the two node version of BBBS is available, right?
 > The only limitations to it that I know of are a 2 node max and a 30
 > minute hard time limit for users.

The minimum service as you say is two nodes although I do not run any modems 
is still a paid
for function.

Even with internet based connections with mbse/web/ftp services I often can 
have 5 - 10
connections at the same time although rare and 2 - 4 is more likely.

Mbse has a max of two but that is to help with nodes downloading as my upload 
speed is only
18Mb and helps to minimise time connection times.

The Web or ftp connections is mostly robots and these are only connected for a 
max of 10
seconds.

So a 2 port bbbs is not practical on a cost or function basis.

How ever that said the main gain for mbse is that the sources are freely 
available so minir
fixes are done by the users (experienced in C) since the programmer quit the 
scene.

The only feature missing that I could make use of is a file description editor 
for the entries
that have poor comments or too many non textual comments anyway.
Here the only way around using a internal database for each function is to 
convert it to say
MySQL to allow better record updating. Then I could just use the code of 
another bbs editor to
work with mbse but my current time is spent on updating a publishing my Cobol 
tools and
applications on SF.



Vince

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