Hello Bob.

28 Jun 03 13:32, you wrote to me:

 BJ>> Running Debian Woody.....

 RT>> Running Debian 3.0, which I believe is also Woody, and
 RT>> it compiles fine here
 RT>> without hassles, Squish runs fine, just haven't had
 RT>> time to figure out how to
 RT>> make Max run, and like you mentioned in an earlier
 RT>> post, I suspect the answer
 RT>> lies in the *.ctl files, which I currently cannot get silt to
 RT>> compile, possibly an error in the *.ctl files, or somewhere else.
 RT>> :-((

 BJ> Well, as you can see in another message here, I have Maximus running
 BJ> under Debain 3.0r1 (Woody) in console mode, and running a bunch of
 BJ> processes manually (like Squish and BinkP), but the basics are now
 BJ> configured and working.  I'm still fighting enviornmental variables
 BJ> like you are.  I can run with the current directory set to /var/max
 BJ> (the default setup in the 3.02b configuration), and specifying
 BJ> relative paths from there....  Not as clean as I want before I let
 BJ> other users at the system.....

Console mode is all I use here on my Linux boxes, except the one that 
dualboots WIN98SE and Linux, and currently I am running Debian 3.0r0. 
Enviroment varibles are part of the problem, but are solvable.

 BJ> I haven't put any file areas in yet, but I did take a few of my echo
 BJ> areas (including this one) from my OS/2 setup and transfer the squish
 BJ> data files to the Linux box and just run with them.  So, it looks like
 BJ> thw squish database is properly being used.  I haven't taken my
 BJ> userdatabase over yet to test that one....  But I expect any files
 BJ> handled in a binary manor will just transfer.  Those handled in a text
 BJ> manor will need the dos2unix process run on them to clean up
 BJ> end-of-line issues until we can get a fix into the source code.....

Well, I like the bit about being able to transfer the bases from one OS to 
another. It has happened in the past that I had to take my BBS from OS/2 to 
WIN98 due to the loss of the OS/2 system, and it helped a great deal at the 
time that I could take my msgbases over and continue as usual.

Russell

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