Hey Michele!

Oct 02 01:43 03, Michele Marie Dalene wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 MMD>     I haven't had a problem with Squish compiling in awhile.

Great!  That solves one problem.

 MMD> but without a bbs that supports the squish or the *.msg format. 
 MMD> right
 MMD> now its just wasting inodes.

Hmmmm.

 MMD> Unfortunatly.... the Maximus under 
 MMD> dosemu
 MMD> does NOT seem to like the dosemu virtual fs so accessing the squish
 MMD> message bases from the dos version in dosemu is a nightmare. Thus I
 MMD> gave dosemu its own IDE HD on a second box to play with. Works
 MMD> wonderful.

Sounds good.  That is probably the best option for right now unless you
want to go to a different BBS package.

 MMD>     Right now, as I said, I can get squish to compile. a working
 MMD> maximus system would be cool.

I agree 100%.  I am looking into a few things to see where it can be adapted.

 MMD> YOu asked about sqafix config file.
 MMD> Well, I got the msdos sqafix laying around on my dosemu maximus bbs
 MMD> but haven't installed it yet.

Yes I was looking for an example cfg file so I could test it out.  No rush
on this though as there is a bigger fish to fry at the moment.

 MMD> Still debating if I should get rid of
 MMD> the DSL or not. Its getting cold now and my main heat source is
 MMD> Natural Gas. Being on Disability. my DSL is taking away from the 
 MMD> funds
 MMD> to pay for my gas bill. If I get rid of the DSL. then the msdos
 MMD> version of Maximus would work good as I only right now got one bbs
 MMD> Pots line.

If you're asking me I'd have to say go with the heat option.  Even
upgrading Linux won't solve the problem as there are bugs.  Getting a
working Linux BBS won't pay your heating bill, or at least I don't believe
it would, so it looks like POTs would be the best option right now.  I will
do my best at this end.

 MMD> However.. the stock Maximus QWK door does not have a 
 MMD> command
 MMD> to ADD all message areas in a sub menu. say all RIME.* conferences. 
 MMD> I
 MMD> am talking about the maximus 3.01 for Msdos with the y2k fixes. it 
 MMD> has
 MMD> a - key to REMOVE ALL. Is there a mex script to do just that?

Hmmmmm.  I don't know.  You'd think it would be possible if it doesn't
already do that.

 MMD> and typing
 MMD> 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 .... 375 is NOT exactly a joy.

I hear you.

 MMD> I carry over 4000 message bases on the bbs including usenet, I-link,
 MMD> Fido, Justanet, Nukenet, Dovenet Rime, Mirage. and you can just
 MMD> imagine how big my msgarea.ctl file is! (thank god Scott kept the 
 MMD> opus
 MMD> include directive in silt! because it makes the file a little less
 MMD> painful to edit.

Oh yeah.  I don't have nearly that many bases and I am already thinking
about a Perl script to automatically create a msgarea.ctl from squish.cfg. 
However it would be really nice to have an areafix that could do something
like this as well for the squish.cfg.

If you're asking my advice, I am not sure you are, I'd say go with what you
have working on POTs and hang in there with the Linux on the side.  I will
do all I can to get a networking Maximus going.  If you'd like I could get
a CD or two your way so that you're more up to date.  No pressure though as
your current setup is just fine in my humble opinion and an upgrade won't
give you a solid working Linux Maximus ... not just yet anyhow.

Life is good,
Maurice

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