Hello Maurice!

06 Oct 03 14:35, you wrote to me:

 BS>> Now I remember! I'm not using framebuffer, but did anyone notice,
 BS> BS>> that they is getting funny charecters on the console, like
 BS>> green-blinking D's?

 MK> Not here.  I have a partition that is VGA16 text mode (no
 MK> framebuffers) and it is fine.

Okay! The problem is that if I switch between X and console, the blinking D's come..

 BS>> There is, but the latest release is pretty old.. Then I'm thiking
 BS>> of BBS'es and Fidonet the operating system doesn't matter to me..

 MK> Hmmmm.  I just have Linux so it is tough for me to say whether or not
 MK> something will work on anything else.  The Windows users around here
 MK> don't have compilers so I would have to have a crosscompiler for other
 MK> OS's and even if I did there still might be  a problem convincing
 MK> anyone to test a BBS on their box.

It's sad that a widely used OS as Windows doesn't include a compiler, after
I've been using Linux for some years, it's very annoying to use a OS
without a compiler included!


 MK> I probably could convince a few to
 MK> log into a BBS but that doesn't help test compatibility of source
 MK> code.

That's right.

Regards,
Bo

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