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In article <89268.185440TBC101@PSUVM.BITNET> TBC101@PSUVM.BITNET (Thomas B. Collins, Jr.) writes:
|I am seriously considering writing a BBS.  I'll probably be writing it
|with Turbo Pascal 5.5 since I don't know C...  I'd like to be able to
|make it multi-user, and was wondering what I need to do as I
|plan/program in order to allow for this.  The only idea I've had so far
|is to write it so that it will run under something like Desqview and
|then a multiple copies of it for each 'Node' of the BBS.

You could either do that, or write a multi-tasking kernel, which services
I/O and other requests... then you can have one program running, no
need for Desqview or any other multitasker... unfortunately, writing a
multi-tasking kernel is a bear, and I certainly wouldn't want to try it.
:-)  So your best bet is probably to use a multi-tasker, run multiple copies
of the program, and use *good* *un-limiting* locks on your files... pref.
record-locking if you can figure out how...

Make sure you kill all the locks when you reboot (I had a lot of troubles
with this one time... a file was locked, I rebooted, and it was still locked
so the board would hang waiting to read it... ugh.) ("the board" there refers
to Lynx, which I was evaluating.  Didn't choose it.)

  Bill
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