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- From: kevinb@oblivion.csd.sgi.com (Kevin Brokaw)
- Subject: Re: BBS under Windows
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.213106.20466@news.csd.sgi.com>
- Keywords: help help help
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- References: <1992Dec30.174906.18596@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1992Dec30.185932.17997@news.csd.sgi.com> <1992Dec30.204220.9141@apgea.army.mil>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:31:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.204220.9141@apgea.army.mil>, rcmerrit@apgea.army.mil (Robert C. Merritt <rcmerrit>) writes:
- |> Question: Does WildCat still have that horrable message base system? I
- |> was on "the" wildcat board for this area a while back. (It was the test drive
- |> version BTW) And if there were replys to a message, you HAD TO read all
- |> the messages in that thread before going to the next message. If there
- |> were 20 some replys to a message about cross stiching, you were stuck reading
- |> those things! I though Wild Cat was well done and I've always heard they
- |> were well supported but the message base gave me the shivers!
-
- I would imagine the simple answer would be no, it isn't still that way, but
- honestly, in the 3+ years I've been running a Wildcat system, the message
- system NEVER operated in that manner. This would take me back to version
- 2.10, and the test drive release at that time, (late 89/early 90), which
- was based upon release 1.13. You do have the option of reading replies in
- order when reading messages, but it is not the default mode of operation
- for reading messages. The default mode is non-threaded, sequential reading,
- and effective with version 3.00 of Wildcat, each message area is an individual
- B-tree indexed database (prior versions kept one database combining all message
- areas). The concept of joining conferences (or sub-boards) was introduced
- in V3.0.
- Cheers,
- Kevin
-
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- Kevin Brokaw (kevinb@csd.sgi.com) |
- Product support engineer | Sorry, this closet is for anxieties.
- Silicon Graphics Computer Systems | Pipe dreams are under the bed.
- (Forgive them,they know not what I post)|
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