Hello andrew!



24 Apr 03 00:39, you wrote to me:


 BS>> That was my impression too. But what is the problem, about
 BS>> developing it? Time problems? License problems? ..

 ac> The main problem is the source code isn't compilable in the state it
 ac> was released in.  It was released under the GPL so there are no
 ac> licencing issues (unless you happen to disagree with the principles of
 ac> the GPL).

Ofcause i don't, then i won't run linux if i did ;)

 ac> Some other problems come to mind:

 ac> These days people either run Windows or some flavour of Linux or BSD.
 ac> The DOS and OS/2 code is basically obsolete.  There is a 32-bit
 ac> Windows version of Maximus but I'm not sure how stable it is.

Ok.

 ac> There is no UNIX port at all.

I know so.

 ac> There is no TCP/IP support in the code.

Well on unix it's not the problem, it could be called from inetd.
The same with the handling of dialin, the mgetty would handle, and the
program should be called with connect-speed parameter and so on.

 ac> So I think there is probably not that much interest in the whole
 ac> project overall.  I think most people would much rather access a BBS
 ac> using their web browser than over telnet.

I'm not so scure, in the USA many telnet bbs'es grew up. Today i saw a BBS
was started up agian after 7 years downtime.

Maybe it's an illution.

 ac> I think it'd be far more
 ac> interesting to try to emulate some of Maximus' capabilities using
 ac> Apache, PHP and MySQL actually.  Not to mention much more portable and
 ac> secure.

I'm not scure that i would use it then. I'm too classic for those things..
but maybe it's the only way FTN networks can survivel, i'm not scure..

Regards, Bo

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