BS>> Are you studying?

 BJ> I need to get working on getting a teaching certificate.....  I 
 BJ> haven't investigated the options yet.  Probably would end up being a 
 BJ> Master's in Education, but who knows.  

 BS> If you are a master, it would only take 6 months or so, 
 BS> to get teaching compentence.

I believe there are programs that take about one year.....  I believe 1/4
to 1/2 of that time is spent as a  student teacher....  Like I said, I need
to look into the details.

 BJ> I already have a master's in 
 BJ> software engineering, but that hasn't helped in the market over the 
 BJ> past two years.....  

 BS> Where do you want to teach? I would like to teach in 
 BS> High School, but it's a long go from now..

Probably high school math or possible 4-12 (maybe K-12) special education.

 BJ> I'm too odd ball for some of the folks in this 
 BJ> area, and areospace business is still depressed......

 BS> Areospace? 

Arrrgggg.....  Spelling has always been my worst subject.  And Max doesn't
have a spell checker built in....  And I read right through the typos when
I get typing too fast.....

Aerospace....  [Spelling is not rocket science..... ]

 BJ>> Basically true.  But it is done that way because that is how Max is
 BJ>> coded for hooking into right now.....

 BS>> Okay, I didn't look so mutch in the WFC source, so I 
 BS>> know how things works..

 BS>> Actually I did more concentrate on Squish..

 ...
 BJ>> (b)  Are you running a copy of Maximus for each telnet session?

 BS>> No.. It starts automatically with the runbbs.sh script?

Hmmm....  I know the runbbs.sh script (version 1.1) would re-start max once
a user logged out (like I expected), but I didn't think it handled
concurrent users.  I'll have to look at version 1.3 in more detail.

 ...
 BJ> Now if a second concurrent telnet connection 
 BJ> is being allowed, I am gessing that the second 
 BJ> sysop console is going 
 BJ> to the bit bucket, or the sysop console is going to look very 
 BJ> interesting.....

 BS> IMHO is the communication working well, I would 
 BS> presuiate if the MEX / Filetransfer / QWK were working 
 BS> .. And local logon!

Understand.  We need MEX, file transfers and Qwk working in the Linux port
before I can consider Max for public consumption on my BBS.  I suspect the
file transfers problems are issues with how we are opening up and/or
running the telnet ports.  Have you had Max build QWK packets via a local
login (max -k) and tested the resulting QWK file for compatibility?  If
that doesn't work, then yes, QWK is probably also broken on the port.  Mex
is definately broken....

 ...
 BS> Hmm.. I don't quite unstand what bug he's describing in Revision 1.3

I think he had a netmail / echomail comment.  Under OS/2 (and DOS and
Win32), you start up squish based on certain error code exits.  If we set
up max to run multiple connections allowed under a single runbbs.sh script,
that will need to change to a spawn type processing....  Sort of like the
options Binkley has for starting a BBS (error level exit vs spawning child
process, etc.)

 BJ> This is like how I run 
 BJ> a sysop login under OS/2 and leave my BBS up on the other nodes.  
 BJ> When running under regular DOS (with out any multi-tasker), you had 
 BJ> to take the BBS down to log in on the sysop console (again with the 
 BJ> -k option).

 BS> Yes, like every other BBS system, it was quite 
 BS> annoying, the same while reading mail under DOS 
 BS> couldn't your mailer answer calls.

 

 ...
 BS> Oh I see, it was so then Wes just did port it..

Yes....


Due to Max BBS line limitations, I cann't respond to the rest of your reply
via my normal methods.

Take care.....

Bob Jones, 1:343/41



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