[FADCA] New BBS program wants

[John H. Green]

Hi Bill
    This is great!! 
Are you going to put this on the rebbs list, some of the guys there 
might have some good input.
I'm surprised you don't have word wrap in your list :-) , if i remember 
this was one of your biggest issues with 4re..

Things to think about:
    move the *.cc and *.dis files out of the msgs directory. If there 
are a lot of messages in the msgs dir then it is slow when editing these 
files.
    someone mentioned XP, XP, XP - Rick, I think. We want to be careful 
here - some of us use isa cards, It might be pretty hard to find a pc 
with isa slots that will run 2000 or XP and not be a dog. Three of my 4 
ports are using  DRSI cards, one at 9600b.
    I, myself, would not consider using 98 or ME, they are just too 
unstable for this, at least in my experience.
    Although it might be difficult I would like to see a linux version. 
As we move FAPC to Linux it would be nice to put the bbs in the same pc. 
I was planning to try linux fbb after I got fpac running in linux. A 
little progress has been made - I have a computer sitting here waiting 
for me to try installing linux.  Only one problem - I have been told X 
times about the Y things on the L list that need to get done, thus I 
have a bathroom tore apart with one more to go before we leave in May. ;-)
    in the info (enter i) from the sysop console add held and verify 
counts. Now one has to enter lh and lv to see if any messages are held.
    When messages are being forwarded allow a higher priority message to 
be inserted in the que that is being sent. Now it has to wait till all 
in the que are send and the action file fires off another batch of messages.
    AA4RE bbs software has some powerful emergency tools - we need to 
understand them better and maybe enhance them, at least make them easier 
to use.
 
Maybe after Jeff has gotten a feel for what the bbs is we could get 
together and discuss things over coffee.. I would suggest in front of a 
working bbs.

73  John

   

Bill Sinbine wrote:

> Hi All
>
> Now is your chance to have some input to a new/updated bbs program. I 
> got the code for AA4RE (rebbs) bbs program and sent it to Jeff who 
> just sent me a message back saying
>
> I've been looking through the code and it looks like it's very well 
> written and thoroughly
> commented.  I don't know yet for sure, but I'm thinking this should 
> not be
> too hard to get through it and understand what it's doing.  I think I'm
> going to install the bbs and see what it looks like.  I think it 
> should take
> a week or so to get through he code.  I suggest we start putting together
> our "wish list" or features so I can figure out what to add once I get 
> most
> of it converted.
>
> The code that I sent him is the MARS version that has pactor in it 
> already.
>
> Here is what we have been tossing around so far.
> Add compressed forwarding.
> Add driver support for AGWPE.
> Check that it will do pactor 2 and 3
> Run in windows 98, win2k and XP. 32 bit mode
> do telnet
> Set program up around a core engine so you can just click on the 
> options that you want to run and not have to have a bunch of things 
> that it can do that take up space that you aren't going to use. This 
> would make setup very simple.
>
> We were also talking about combining the best of REBBS and FBB which 
> would add a lot to the program.
>
> Well I'll stop here and turn the floor over to everyone and let you 
> get your "wants" out on the list.
> Please take the time to send me your needs and wants. I'm not only 
> asking for the bbs sysops input I also want input from a user stand 
> point.
>
> 73, Bill N4XEO
>
>
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