Hello Johannes.

13 Apr 04 08:59, you wrote to me:

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

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

I'm just testing MBSE out to see how far Michiel has come, quite far! :)

Well JAM has header limitations like if you gate newsgroups a "references" 
klugde can only have 100 chars, which very quickly can distrub a newsgroup 
;))

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

 JB> Why not?

Maybe I'm just old fashioned, I begin to see the smart things in it.

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

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

Indeed, maximus is "silting it" :)

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

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

No SILT. It would definately could, the problem is with areas is somebody 
subscribe to a area by a areafix it would be defficult to see if the binary 
config og the plaintext file is "the right one". You would properly not 
understand that, I'm a bad person to write proper sentence.

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

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

SoupGate is pretty good.

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

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

Hihi :)

Bo

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