Hey Bob!

Oct 05 14:59 03, Bob Jones wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 BJ> Good that you are very comfortable with command line / console based 
 BJ> stuff....

I live for it.  Framebuffer graphics has been my most recent turn on. 
Awesome stuff!  "Black Adder" episodes on a console, framebuffer,
Matrox customized MPlayer is to die for.  I know because I have done it. 
The box is sitting right here right now.  It really needs a Linuxed up
Maximus BBS on it but it is a good box as is.

 BJ> No, there is not a 32-bit DOS version.  The dos version is 16 bit 
 BJ> with overlays.

Ah!  I was mistaken then.

 BJ> (such as a FTSC standard correction in like the time stamp Squish 
 BJ> puts into a kludge line in messages).....  

Okay.


 BJ> Before implementing a different approach, please discuss your ideas 
 BJ> here.

No problem with that.  In fact that is exactly what I will do.

 BJ> so that it can run under Linux / Unix.  And yes, there are areas of 
 BJ> the code that need working.  Maybe we can off load something Wes was 
 BJ> working on to you....

Perhaps later.  I like the idea of working on protocols, file transfers and
the such for now.  If we can get that aspect covered then I believe we'll
have a good foundation to build on.  After all without file manipulation
what good is any computer program?

 BJ> Basically, once a single Maximus BBS session is running properly 
 BJ> (either TCP/IP and/or Serial) we should be able to hook it up to 
 BJ> something like inetd and/or getty for spawning additional user 
 BJ> sessions.

Sounds good.

 BJ> Just thoughts.....  Have you played with Max under OS/2 at all?

I have seen it and have logged into it as a user.  Worked great near as I
could tell.  I still don't think we need a waiting for caller screen
however.

 BJ> I'm sure you can come up with additional items to discuss and ideas 
 BJ> about where we want to head....

First things first but offhand I hope you are right about that.  Getting
old don't you know?  ;-)

Life is good,
Maurice

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