Hey Sean!

Apr 10 17:43 04, Sean Dennis wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 SD> Yep, I agree.  I don't see why, if someone was motivated, they could 
 SD> rip all of that out of the Maximus code.

Actually that isn't really the main problem.  From what I have seen thus
far the bigger issue is how it interfaces with whatever terminal the user
is using and I think if the native ncurses, which I think initially was a
BSD thing, that might clear up some major issues as far as Linux is
concerned.  Also the keyboard.  What I've noticed from logging into a
native OS/2 BBS from the Linux console, using the native telnet, was that
this isn't even an issue and everything works great.  So it seems to me
that a big chunk of a native Linux Maximus would be to take care of this
issue before worrying about the rest.  The ability to login locally from a
Linux console and concentrating on that - my guess the libmax needs
heavy-duty tweaking.

 SD>  I'd love to port all of my doors to work with Linux... from what I 
 SD> remember, I just rip out the doorkit I use for DOS stuff and just 
 SD> write to stdin/out.

Interesting.  Does the source belong to you?

 SD> BBSing is getting to be too small of a hobby to pick fights with all 
 SD> the other sysops. 

They love it though.  ;-)

Life is good,
Maurice

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