Bo Simonsen wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 BS> Hello Roy.

 BS> 07 Apr 04 04:07, you wrote to me:

 RJT>> Rather than mess with that at all,  if I had something
 RJT>> that would work with bink (which I understand compiles
 RJT>> okay under linux),  used squish bases,  let me stick
 RJT>> with a familiar editor like TimED,  and *looked* like
 RJT>> Max to the callers that'd be good enough for me.  If
 RJT>> it'd use some or all of the existing ctl files so much
 RJT>> the better.

 BS>> Mess?! It works...

 RT> Does it?  I've been watching the discussion in here for quite some
 RT> time,  ever since this echo pretty much died and then came back to
 RT> life again when the source to Maximus was finally released.

 BS> Well I did work on Max the whole January month, and I did fix MEX
 BS> and other stuff, and the thing seems to work, I did successfully
 BS> call my BBS by ISDN (Modem or ISDN doesn't matter).

 BS> The only thing I'm not sure of is how to get Binkley working with
 BS> MAX, I did try to use "BBS Exit", but the modem hangoff. So it
 BS> should use BBS Spawn, but I can't test it by a NULL-modem cable,
 BS> binkley is doing mistery things.

So you haven't got that combination working yet.  I wonder if anybody has?

 RT> My immediately accessible archives go back at least four years and 
 RT> some months,  but I've been in here a lot longer than that.

 RT> I've seen problems mentioned,  and have seen some of the resolutions
 RT> to them posted,  but by no means all.

 BS> What problems, I would like if you could be a bit concrete.

I don't recall the specifics offhand,  and don't feel like digging into the
archives just now -- just noting that when I see people in here getting a
hold of a copy there are issues with compiling it,  and getting it to run, 
and I don't recall anyone in here ever saying that they'd been successful
at it,  and had Maximus running under linux.  If that'd been the case I
surely would have pursued doing the same thing myself.  Now it may be that
somebody did post such a message and it never made it here,  fido has been
funny like that in recent times...

 BS>> I don't see you problem, in what way shouldn't max work properly
 BS>> under UNIX. Modem is tested and it works well. (I did
 BS>> successfully do transfering and so on by a NULL-modem cable).

 RT> Yes?  Will I be able to use it under binkley as I'm doing now under
 RT> dos/desqview?  And perhaps use TimED or some sort of a workalike to
 RT> get at those message bases?

 BS> There is a bit of a problem there, In theory it should work, I'm
 BS> just missing the right configuration parameter for binkley.

Ah.

 BS> But it doesn't seems like any of the Binkleyterm maintainers is
 BS> here anymore. :(

I suppose the bink echo might be a good place to try and look into that.  I
do carry that here as well,  even though there hasn't been any traffic in
there in a long time.

 BS>> Sorry Roy, but it seems like you haven't tried it for the last 
 BS>> half of a year.

 RT> I know one thing for sure,  there are posts that are out there in 
 RT> echos that I carry that don't make it here.  I guess you can't 
 RT> expect perfection in fidonet, it bein an amateur network and all,  
 RT> but my understanding of the situation was that things weren't 
 RT> finished yet.

 BS> Aha, but I need some concrete problems...

See above.    I have bink-max-squish-timed running here under
dos/dv.  I'd like to switch the whole setup over to linux,  and have not
yet heard of anyone who has done this or even something close.

We also had a discussion in here about a couple of the bits that I'm
missing, things having to do with building a files list for people to
download and for keeping track of who's downloaded what,  but that's fairly
minor stuff.  If I get the rest of it going I'm sure that can be handled...

 RT> If this is indeed not the case,  and I don't have to worry about such
 RT> silly stuff as paths embedded in the code,  the cases of filenames,
 RT> and some of the other things I've seen mentioned in here then by all
 RT> means pass me a URL and I'll snag a copy and have a go at it.

 BS> Now we are being concrete, the cases of filenames is fixed in QWK
 BS> where it's needed too, I couldn't find any other problems.

What does that mean,  exactly?  Is QWK working?  If so,  good,  because
what few callers I still have these days seem to favor the use of it.  Is
there anything I need to know with regard to it?

 RT> I have a particular reason for strongly wanting to have this work,
 RT> too,  *if* it will work for me to replace my current setup.  I'm
 RT> currently one of only three active systems in NET270.  Both of the
 RT> other guys are long distance from me and from each other.

 BS> Yes I see, but Squish has been stable for a year or so.

 RT> I'm also LD from any possible feed,  so it's costing people money 
 RT> to move this echomail to and from my system.  Admittedly not 
 RT> anywhere near as much as it did when fidonet was much bigger,  but 
 RT> still a situation I'd like to do away with.

 BS> I understand. I'm a leafnode so I can do what I want.

If I can get this working under linux,  I gain a few things right off. 
First is better connectivity,  both with the other nodes in my net,  and
with the ability to go out and get netmail and echomail myself without
having to incur LD charges.  It would also enable me to get networking into
the setup,  so I can build as big of a files section as I want and it
doesn't have to reside within the limitations of DOS,  which it has to at
this point,  nor even on the same machine for that matter...   There are a
few other pluses as well.

 RT> And there are a few more bits that I need to make the transition,  as
 RT> well...

 BS> You might be missing third party tools yes..

See above.  Mostly it's those two things I mention up there,  the files
list generator and the download counter.  I'll bet I could deal with both
of those in c,  or perhaps Perl,  with a good dose of bash scripting thrown
in for good measure.  Once I get the momentum going with having the rest of
the setup up and working,  I'll have enough incentive to work on those
parts and get them going.

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