Hi Roy,

 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.

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

The existing code at sourceforge, so in someway work pretty good. I did
do a checkout this afternoon, and it did compile, and I did have no problems
my setting it up.

 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.

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

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

Bo

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