RdL>         Back in June or July I tried the linux port 
 ...
 RdL> - On my windows computer each node runs in a seperate 
 RdL> window. I can easily see who's doing what. If someone 
 RdL> pages me, I can answer the page and chat with a user.. 
 RdL> I can take over the keyboard and control the bbs etc.. 
 RdL> On linux, it seems that maximus runs as as a hidden 
 RdL> process. Is there a way I can see what people are 
 RdL> doing on the BBS, answer pages, etc...? "Snoop mode"  
 RdL> I'll be honest, I didn't spend much time playing with 
 RdL> Maximus for linux and nor am I a linux expert. 

You are welcome to help us get Maximus fully ported to Linux.  There are a
number of items still needing to be worked on....

 RdL> - Are you preserving modem support? It would be 
 RdL> nice... eventually I'd like to get a dialup node if 
 RdL> users say they'd use it. 

Modem support is what Wes was working on before real life (work and family
issues) got in the way.....

 RdL> BTW can someone tell me why when I use the win32 
 RdL> version of Maximus 3.1, doors don't work? I've noticed 
 RdL> that it doesn't output the right COM port to the 
 RdL> dropfile .. but I've tried hardcoding the proper com 
 RdL> port into the doorsys.mec and doors still wouldn't 
 RdL> work. That's why I'm using the DOS maximus on windows. 

It's been a while since I've seen the documentation on this issue. 
Basically, if you are running COMMAND.COM to run a DOS door from the Win32
version of Maximus, you can get screwed with DTR being dropped by
COMMAND.COM on initialization, which can hang up the phone....

As to port numbers, I believe the Win32 version is like the OS/2 version,
and passes a handle instead of a comm port number, while the DOS version
passes a comm port number.  One way around this is to tie your task number
to your port number, and then use the task number to determine port number.
 That's one work around for this in some situations.

WARNING:  I do not use the Win32 version of Maximus.  I runn Maximus/2
under OS/2, and am helping get Maximus running under Linux when time
permits.

Take care.....

Bob Jones, 1:343/41



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