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- From: johnboyd@ocdis01.UUCP (John Boyd)
- Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
- Subject: Re: Communicating between PC's
- Message-ID: <160@ocdis01.UUCP>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 21:38:50 GMT
- References: <1jknr8INN2ed@usenet.pa.dec.com>
- Organization: Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma
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- In article <1jknr8INN2ed@usenet.pa.dec.com> devilly@vaxvls.enet.dec.com (Martin Devilly) writes:
- >
- >Hi, is it reasonable to assume, that a BBS is the most appropriate
- >way of allowing various people to download CAD data from a PC.
-
- While there's no one 'right answer', I'd say it depends on the number of
- people to be downloading, how often they'll be downloading, and whether or
- not you want to dedicate a phone line more-or-less permanently to the task.
- If it's for occasional use by one, two, or a few folks, something like the
- Host Mode of Procomm Plus may suit you just fine. Also, it's far easier to
- set that up than a full-blown BBS pkg; and far easier to manage. You can
- fire it up at the drop of a hat when someone needs to get something, and
- when it's over, kill it, and you've got your phone line again. This is the
- scenario I run with a friend of mine whom I develop programs with, but he
- lives in TX and I live in OK, so when we need to move something between us,
- we fire up this 'mini BBS' and move the files. When it's over, we have the
- phone again; no second lines, etc.
- >
- >Assuming that this is true, any suggestion on a `good' BBS available at little
- >cost.
- >
- Both QuickBBS and Maximus are good, and fairly simple to set up. There may
- be others with which I haven't worked, which are equally so. As I recall,
- off the top of my head, the registration fees are quite reasonable also.
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