*** Answering a msg posted in area CarbonArea (Private Received Netmail).

Hello Bob Jones!

19 Apr 06 08:12, you wrote to me:

 GKA>> I have try to getting it working for some months ago
 GKA>> where it first was my meaning on begun to run linux
 GKA>> for systems but dropped again as I have my msgbase on
 GKA>> one pc and files on another pc, so now it has been
 GKA>> moved to be on same mashine it all and my fdo system
 GKA>> and other mail system is changed over to run by linux
 GKA>> is it time to getting linux max ready to use for
 GKA>> filebase and find some linux programs there can work
 GKA>> with maximus for filelist doing.
 GKA>> I have used several bbs system in the times, started
 GKA>> with Wildcat for the first use then gone to Opus and
 GKA>> from Opus to Maximus (the time before windows comes in
 GKA>> real doing and it was good old DOS system), after some
 GKA>> times running Maximus I change to ru RemoteAccess BBS
 GKA>> and then it was now by 3 mashines with each ow mailer
 GKA>> on it and then to elebbs system and then last to
 GKA>> Maximus + some other BBs system for windows 98/2000/xp
 GKA>> doing.
 GKA>> It is my mind to starting to find a way to by linux
 GKA>> used maxius for user whenready in linux to telnet to
 GKA>> maximus as I have husky soft for mail and file
 GKA>> processing.

 BJ> Ok.  So I assume you have the message areas working the way you want.

Maximus Squish and Husky hpt can work together as hpt is Sq doing so husky
software of hpt and htick + nltools + fastlst do the work so maximus have
only to use the msgbase.

 GKA>> All my directories and paths in linux is in lovercase.

 BJ> Ok.  Just be consistant in all the control files.  The original
 BJ> examples used a mixed case in a case insensitive enviornment -- and
 BJ> not all the control files were consistent....  Sounds like you have
 BJ> this issue handled.

Yes i have find it out, so i for oldfiles have to change the path from
using windows direction as \\ and \ to be as /home/kofo/ftp/ for newfiles
and /home/ftp/pub/fido/ for oldfiles.
Then maybe starting to change the way it doing it so the numbers from
before is change with 1-5000 is x10 more so new files will have the first
number of 1 to 1000

 GKA>> By getting maximus to show and use oldfiles and new
 GKA>> files is just how to do it, it can maybe in some doc
 GKA>> and manual for maximus.

 BJ> The easiest way will be to have seperate file areas for the old and
 BJ> new file locations.  Each directory would contain it's own files.bbs
 BJ> file for maximus to use.

Yes this is I know about is maybe the best the doing it then can it be
changed on the way later on. But there is lot of files directories to work
on for oldfiles.

 BJ> The other method I need to look up.  From memory, the other option
 BJ> would allow one directory to be the main directory for the file area.
 BJ> File in any other directory then need the full path specified in the
 BJ> files.bbs.  There may be an option in a control file that needs to be
 BJ> turned on to make this work.

 BJ> Do you have atleast one file area show files from one directory
 BJ> working?

I haven't setup the file directory yet, as I have some other things to do,
but i will look on it.
I can put in a file area as my ftp server using for new files ....
it can be like this /home/kofo/ftp/avdat/
and by ftp server is it ftp://gen2ghz.kofobbs.net/ftp/avdat/
A path for oldfiles is /home/ftp/pub/fido/nodelist/
and the ftp is ftp://gen2ghz.kofobbs.net/pub/fido/nodelist/

             Take care
        Gert Andersen

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