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- From: jem@sunSITE.unc.edu (Jonathan Magid)
- Subject: Re: bbs for Linux
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.171650.18435@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- Nntp-Posting-Host: sunsite.unc.edu
- Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- References: <1992Dec26.102943.12732@sfu.ca>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 17:16:50 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- In article <1992Dec26.102943.12732@sfu.ca> wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong) writes:
- >checked out sunsite.unc.edu and found a directory /pub/packages/bbs or
- >something like that, and it had some BBS source code, but I am not sure
- >if they worked or at least, I'm not even sure if that's the actual bbs
- >package I'm looking for. In any event, I downloaded the whole stuff,
- >only to realize that 'bbselm.tar'(renamed) and 'bbsuemacs.tar' and
- >some other stuff were > 1.44 MB, and thusly, I couldn't rawrite them
- >to 3 1/2" floppies, like I did with most of the other software packages
- >I got.
-
- /pub/packages/bbs on sunsite is the source for the Internet BBS that until
- recently ran on the UNC BBS (bbs.oit.unc.edu) and which has recently been
- replaced by the laUNChpad system (launchpad.unc.edu).
-
- as usual I plug the BBS. ;) But I do *not* reccomend using the source
- in /pub/packages/bbs. Its awful. Truly awful, an ugly kludge.
-
- if you look in /pub/Linux/system/BBS you can find the source for an BBS
- called Pirate BBS. It isn't set up to do Fidonet things, though.
-
- In the same directory is an off-line Fidonet reader. I have heard of
- a Fido "tosser" that is in alpha testing... If someone would upload it
- to sunsite I would be appreciative.
-
- >
- > Can someone please help me with this minor/major dilemma?
-
- the major-minor number I know, but why would you want a minor/major
- dilemna?
-
- "bad Unix puns 'R' us"
- jem.
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