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- From: zcacama@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Andreas M Antonopoulos)
- Newsgroups: alt.bbs
- Subject: Moving from DOS to UNIX
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.154001.8240@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 15:40:01 GMT
- Sender: news@ucl.ac.uk (Usenet News System)
- Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium, London
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- Hello everyone,
-
- I have already searched for an FAQ posting in this group and have found
- nothing. Sorry if this is trivial... here we go:
-
- I am running a BBS program (The Major BBS by Galacticomm Inc.) on a DOS
- platform and thinking of moving on to a UNIX platform. In order to do this I
- will have to be able to port most of the functionality of the existing
- program over to UNIX. (I must admit that the program is well made for a DOS
- platform and its non-functionality is mostly due to the inherent
- uselesseness of DOS in multitasking).
-
- As I have set up my BBS at the moment it includes the following facilities :
-
- - Teleconferencing
- - Email
- - Bulletin Boards (SIGs)
- - Questionnaires
- - File Areas (Up/Download)
- - Off-line mail/bulletin board reader
- - Dialouts (Connection to other systems via serial/modem or X.25)
-
- The communications hardware is a Galacticomm modem board (Galactibox) with 12
- modems (2400 MNP5).
-
- What I am looking for is some BBS package (PD/commercial) that will:
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- - Allow for commercial use.
- - Include source code for everything.
- - Be well designed/documented.
- - Extendable, Modular, Very configurable.
- - Have an accounting mechanism (time charges, access levels, security)
-
- I am especially concerned with the Dialout facility which should either be
- included in the software package, or easily added, or even easily coded.
-
- If the above are covered, the rest of the facilities can be coded up by us.
- If the package is commercial I am also interested in a sample price.
-
- As far as the communications hardware is concerned, it is supposed to be
- usable by software other than "The Major" but I would like to know if anyone
- has done it before.. (and how!).
-
- I would also appreciate some advice on what UNIX to get (Linux, BSD etc).
- I'd like it to be free (of course) but it should allow for commercial use.
- If this is not possible, well life stinks... I'll buy it!
-
-
- If anyone had the patience to read down to here, congratulations.
- If you could answer I would be grateful.
-
- (Email to aantonop@cs.ucl.ac.uk, and/or post to group)
-
- Thanks,
- Andreas.
-