Maurice Kinal wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 MK> Hey Roy!

 MK> Apr 04 12:05 04, Roy J. Tellason wrote to Janis Kracht:

 RJT> Yes,  I'd like to see max/linux finished,  some time while I still 
 RJT> *have* a bbs up and running!

 MK> According to the Sourceforge page there hasn't been any Linux
 MK> development going on.  No mention of Linux as far as the supported
 MK> OS's go.  They do list it as released under the GNU public license
 MK> though so if that is all the concern is then it is covered.  I
 MK> would hazard a guess that it will stay that way since Linux is far
 MK> too different from the currently supported OS's for a straight port
 MK> of the existing code to be a trivial matter.  It would be far
 MK> easier to just start from scratch.

 MK> That's my slant on it for what it's worth.

I've watched some of the horror stories with regard to the existing code go
by in here over time since the source code was released.

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

I don't need anywhere *near* all of what's in Max,  not even all of what
was in 2.x,  never mind 3.x.  For example I may have been the one to
suggest the hierarchal file and message areas,  I don't recall.  But I
didn't wait for it and don't do it the way Max does,  I got handed
something that somebody was using for their file areas and adapted it to my
message areas,  using keys,  and had it going under 2.x,  doing the job
just fine.  Written in mecca.

I have a couple of fancied-up menus that I could probably live without, 
and a number of callers that _need_ QWK downloading because that's what
they use -- never mind that it's always made much more sense to me to set
up as a point (what I did,  I never used an offline reader).  The rest of
the setup is pretty much stock,  except for the .ctl files... 

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