-=> Quoting Nancy Backus to Ben Carpenter <=-

 NB> My wizard hubby much prefers a Unix system to Windows, and assures me
 NB> that I would too... I'm inclined to believe him, even though I know
 NB> fairly little about actually operating totally within a Unix system,
 NB> as he has put various unix magic spells already on this computer that I
 NB> use, and my normal text editor is MicroEMACS, a dos version of a Unix
 NB> editor, which I like very much.  It's a stable operating system,
 NB> unlike windows, as well...  So, if we couldn't have Dos, that's
 NB> probably the direction we'd be going...

I would highly recommend Linux, and I think you know that after I snuck at 
least two distros to him already. LOL! 

It would be nice if someone made a BW reader for Linux. And a BW door and BBS
system. Would work quite reliably, I would say.

As for me, I'm still using Win98SE and BW 2.30 (DOS) for the BBS stuff, since
I'm kinda busy with things I need windows for. I never had problems with the
mouse stuff. In fact I've relied on it to a fault to the point keyboard
shortcuts confuse *me*. LOL!

I think there's the specs to the BW packet on the 'net somehwere. I'm sure
some clever soul could program a reader in C/C++ and ncurses. GZip I believe
will unzip pkzip packets.

(Don't look at me... too many irons in the fire to go programming in Linux
right now. LOL! Just throwing around some ideas..)

Tika


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