Hello Maxim.

15 Oct 08 16:00, you wrote to me:

 RT>> In the VBS script for setup, add constants for;

 RT>> Zone, Net, Node, Pointnumber

 MS> i think these constants are not needed for us. Consts. yourFTNAddress,
 MS> yourUplinkName, uplinkFTNAddress fully cover all essential info
 MS> regarding the fido-addresses for configuration of fido-points.

I am thinking a little broader than that, to include setup for Nodes as well 
...

 RT>> Origin

 MS> yes, this is reasonable, i may add this constant, no problem

 RT>> In GoldEdcfg, there are also some "cryllic" lines
 RT>> Goldhelp.cfg is also not English ...
 RT>> Parts of Goldlang.cfg are not english
 RT>> Also a few other GoldEd related files have a little "crillic"
 RT>> included
 RT>> ...

 MS> this's not very big problem. As i mention before all cyrillic symbols
 MS> will be wiped out by scripts i'll write.

That is how I thought I understood you ... , just making sure ...

 RT>> An English Quick Start file ...

 RT>> Having installed the win32 version and givern it a look, it seems
 RT>> you have done an extremely good job of making the setup of a
 RT>> point system very easy, using the Husky Project tools. I am
 RT>> impresssed ... , to say the least ...

 MS> i invented unix part of fidoip, and done this basically from zero.
 MS> After one year ago when i tired of vista bugs and wiped out windows
 MS> from my hdd and migrated to linux. Then i faced the challenge with
 MS> complexity of fido software installation for this OS. So fistly i
 MS> wrote slackbuild for slackware which automate installation, then i
 MS> tried other disros ans so on, wrote script to automate installation on
 MS> them, and so on...

 MS> for basis of windows part of fidoip i used software package of by
 MS> fido-boss Kirill Temnenkov, 2:5020/828, and i suppose he created this
 MS> package for his points to simplify their life. This package(FTN.rar)
 MS> is avalaible at http://temnenkov.narod.ru/fido/

Thanks,

 MS> i just modified this package - changed names of directories of
 MS> fido-bases(for matching unix ones) to simplify migration from windows
 MS> to unix and from unix to windows. Also this allowed to use USB-flash
 MS> memory as storage of fido-bases and to use this flash on different PC
 MS> and different OSs. Other modification i done - modified
 MS> vbs-configurator(setup_config.vbs) so that could set up configuration
 MS> not only for points of node 2:5020/828 but for whole world.

Makes sense ...

 RT>> As I am not a programer, and used the default settings, the
 RT>> remarks about adding some extra "Constants" might or
might not be
 RT>> relavant ...

 MS> i am also not programmer, and i think all consts except of origen is
 MS> some kind of overkill J)

Possible ... , I will not know, till I do another, install, which I will fill 
in local values for the setup, WINXP is busy installing on the system I intend 
testing further on ... , and Debian will follow a while later, as I think I 
have solved a "hardware" problem, related to an Iomega ZIP Drive
100 ... , on 
that system ... , which unfortunately wasted a few days of "spare time" ...

 RT>> Also, some or all of the above remarks, may already be part of
 RT>> the "improvements" you have on your to-do list for the next
 RT>> version ...

 MS> for *nix'es i'm going to create alternative way installation of fidoip
 MS> - from packages, and add packages for debian/ubuntu and rpm-based
 MS> distos.

For Debian/Ubuntu speak to Jame Clay 1:120/545, he might be able to help you 
out there ... , he seems to have taken over "mantainership, of a number of 
FidoNet related software for these Linux distributions ...

Once again, thanks,

Russell

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