Hello All!

I just surfed by maximus.sf.net and found that in the forum
(http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=868717&forum_id=214895)

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By: wesgarland ( Wesley W. Garland )
Maximus / Squish UNIX Port -- You can help!  
2003-05-17 12:17 The UNIX Port of Maximus is pretty close to being
first-pass-complete. I need to write a fancier version of the
communications library to provide better throughput and compatibility with
non-raw-mode (e.g. real) telnet clients.

What will this port run on? Theoretically, any UNIX or workalike operating
system (e.g. Linux) with a little-endian (Alpha, x86) processor. Big-Endian
processor support (MIPS, Sparc, PPC) will follow in a subsequent release.

The associated utilities (maid, silt, mecca, mex, squish) all appear to be
stable. Squish could theoretically be used with other BBSes or offline
readers supporting the Squish message base format (GoldEd?).

The BBS itself is close to stable, excluding the MEX VM, which I am
debugging and to have fixed shortly.

Scott has granted me developer status on SourceForge, and once I get a
stable-ish release, I will be uploading the code to the SourceForge CVS.

Now, I need help. I need beta-testers, both users and sysops.

Users can play at wes.zapto.org, port 2000. Until the new comm library is
ready, be sure to put your telnet client in character mode, and disable
local echo. If you want to see everything as it should look, you should
also select a codepage 437 (DOS OEM) font. The excellent freeware terminal
PuTTY supports all of these options. If you have trouble connecting before
the new comm module is ready, try hitting enter, and typing CONNECT^M^J
(^M^J = control M, control J) [heh].

If you are interested in trying out the software for yourself, please
contact me via e-mail at wes{at}ninja250.kingston.net. If I don't answer in a
day or two, try again. For now, I am willing to help you build/configure
the software on your system, provided you grant me telnet access to your
system until it is up and running properly.

If you are a DOS, Windows, or OS/2 developer and would like to maintain
that functionality within Maximus, please contact me. My current thinking
is to use native command-line tools (Borland C, MSVC), coupled with GNU
Make and utilities (such as CygWin provides). By redefining the implicit
rules in GNU Make, we should be able to make a single source tree and set
of Makefiles which build under all platforms. I do not, however, want to
undertake any sort of maintenance or testing on these platforms myself (but
I am happy to assist).

Wes

-- 
wes{at}ninja250.kingston.net

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Damn it's nice :)

Regards,
Bo

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