Hi Gary,

 LH>    It still seems a bit too much for me.  It is so 
 LH> easy to just do silt
 LH>    max without needing any switches.

 GG> What is so hard?  It's the difference between typing this:

 GG> SILT MAX
  Thanks.
  [snip]

 GG> "SILTMAX", thus saving
 GG> you from typing the space.  See?  Now you have to type even less!  

 LH> Maybe I should just join the others and quit bbsing altogether.

 GG> Well, if simple upgrades distress you that much, 
 GG> perhaps you should.  You're
 GG> going to be put thru a lot of upgrades for the "Y2K", 
 GG> and some programs will
 GG> die on you, so you'll be in a world of upgrades and replacements come that
 GG> time.  Better that you get the core BBS part out of the way now, no?

   You are right.  Perhaps I am just letting my fears get the best of me.

 GG> It will take you a few hours to install the Max 3.x upgrade and make sure
 GG> you've made all the changes you'll need to make.  (Most are in the MSGAREA
 GG> and FILEAREA.CTL files, and a little where accesses are 
 GG> concerned)  It's not
 GG> as hard as you're making it.  If this is too hard, keep on with v2.x until
 GG> it's useless.  

 LH> This is why I have major problems with the way software authors write
 LH> their programs.

 GG> You're taking your fear of upgrading and projecting it 
 GG> on software authors.
 GG> Relax, make a backup of your existing setup, and do the 
 GG> upgrade, and you'll
 GG> see it's not as incredibly hard as you're making it out to be.  After all,
 GG> you have 100's of people in this echo to walk you thru 
 GG> it.  What more could
 GG> you ask?

    That's one thing that is really nice about this.  Whenever I have had a
question or concern, lots of people have been there to help/encourage me.
I seem to have gotten lots of good info here.

   TTYL
      Linda
         cat.lady{at}cats.gratisnet.com


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