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. 

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

Thanks, I'm not a C programmer and all I could help with is reporting bugs
and making suggestions. I'll help test but not just yet.  

BTW do you (or anyone reading) have an answer for my question shown above?
That's really important for me and if I can't do that I'd rather stick with
the Windows version.


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

Really? Which version of OS/2 are you using and how did you get it on a
TCP/IP LAN? I used to run my board on OS/2 Warp 3 way back when, single
node using a modem. I still have my boxed copy here, I installed it on a
computer and couldn't find anything to use a TCP/IP LAN. IBM Internet
Connection or whatever it waws called works for dialup PPP Internet access
only. 

Then a friend lended me an OS/2 Warp 4 cd. He says it worked on his 486
just fine. I tried installing it on a p166 with a 2 GB hard drive and every
time I load the setup program it totally corrupts the partition table. Even
if there are no partitions on it. win98 fdisk, partition magic 5 and 7, and
a couple other utils I tried couldn't touch the drive after OS/2 Warp 4
messed it up. I had to use linux fdisk to rebuild a new partition table. 

I tried this on 3 different computers and it wrecked every one of them!
That's why I'm not using OS/2 right now. I remember it was excellent at
multitasking DOS doors and SIO/VMODEM was free I think? 

Thanks,
Ryan


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