Hello, Maurice.

On 09 Apr 04 at 18:45, Maurice Kinal wrote to Sean Dennis:

I'd first read your message at 3:25 AM CDT (-5 GMT) and I was gonna
respond, but I was so out of it... stayed up until well past midnight and
then had to get up to go to work! ;)

 MK> Speaking as a potential Linux BBS sysop I really don't see the need
 MK> for the BBS package to have to concern itself with the connection or
 MK> any hardware, such as a modem.  That is the kernel's job and any
 MK> networking daemon associated with it.  How any other OS deals with it,
 MK> if it even bothers, is that OS's concern.  Right?

Yep, I agree.  I don't see why, if someone was motivated, they could rip
all of that out of the Maximus code.  Right now, I am desperately trying to
find out how to write BBS doors in Linux (I am using Virtual Pascal/2,
which has a Linux plugin to create Linux programs).  I'd love to port all
of my doors to work with Linux... from what I remember, I just rip out the
doorkit I use for DOS stuff and just write to stdin/out.

 MK> Yep.  I certainly don't have a problem with that and if the truth be
 MK> told wouldn't have it any other way.  ;-)

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

Later,
Sean

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