Re: Starting a BBS

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From: Matt Hucke
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 19:10

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In article <BsvuDC.AyL@acsu.buffalo.edu> v120qldp@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (PATRICK FERREL) writes:
>>> 
>>No need to do this... it's simple to convert the userlist.  Simply rename your
>>old "vardec.h" to "old.h", change the name of the struct userrec within, and
>>run the "convert.c" program, which is distributed with many mods...  five 
>>minutes, max.
>
>Yeah, works real well on paper, doesn't it?
>
>Too bad it doesn't work in practice.  Give me some credit; I'm not an idiot.

It does work.  I have used it, and so have many other sysops, when installing 
the FROM or 64-subs mods.  

It's simple, and it works.
-- 
"What? Over? Did you say it's over? Nothing's over, till we decide it is! 
 Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!" --John Belushi
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From: hucke@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Matt Hucke)
Subject: Re: Starting a BBS
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