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

 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...

Does it?  I've been watching the discussion in here for quite some time, 
ever since this echo pretty much died and then came back to life again when
the source to Maximus was finally released.  My immediately accessible
archives go back at least four years and some months,  but I've been in
here a lot longer than that.

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

 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).

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

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

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

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

I have a particular reason for strongly wanting to have this work,  too, 
*if* it will work for me to replace my current setup.  I'm currently one of
only three active systems in NET270.  Both of the other guys are long
distance from me and from each other.  I'm also LD from any possible feed, 
so it's costing people money to move this echomail to and from my system. 
Admittedly not anywhere near as much as it did when fidonet was much
bigger,  but still a situation I'd like to do away with.

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

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