Hello Gary!
Saturday May 03 1997 13:14, Gary Gilmore wrote to John Aldrich:
GG> If all your CFG and CTL files won't fit on a 1.44 floppy, you're doing
GG> something wrong. Since that's all you really need to rebuild a Max BBS
GG> from scratch, it's something that you should be in the habit of doing.
GG> (Floppies are more reliable than a tape in most cases.)
Hmm...ya know, that's NOT a bad idea... :) I shoulda thought of that
myself... :)
GG> I always keep a copy of the important control files on floppy. Then I
GG> can just reinstall any software needed, dump the control files back from
GG> floppy, and I'm back to normal quickly.
Yep. I'm gonna be able to salvage most of my doorgames because I was able to
find an old copy of my menus.ctl file which I can cut/paste from to restore
that area... :)
Thanks for the tip. I feel silly for not doing that before! :)
John
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