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Re: Another WWIV Question...

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From: PATRICK FERREL
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 01:22
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In article <0Lq2PB1w165w@bluemoon.rn.com>, zaphod@bluemoon.rn.com (Peter Bierman) writes...
>How does WWIV handle externals (ie. doors) on a multi-line system? 

Simple Answer: It doesn't.

Complex Answer: WWIV is not multi-line.  However, Arc Angel, who reads this
newsgroup, wrote a gigantic mod which supposedly alters EACH module.  


I don't have the guts (or perhaps the stupidity) to install it myself because I
have never heard from anyone who has done it.  I'm not going to be the first, 
nor the second to try something that big.  I wouldn't even if I weren't 
starting school.  No one knows how to implement something that major into 
Wayne's code except Wayne himself.  I've seen fix after fix after fix for most 
large, and even some small, mods.

It seems as if people want WWIV to be more like VBBS.  I personally don't like
the way VBBS works, and am more than happy with one phone line, so I use WWIV.


Patrick A. Ferrel - Scholar. Helpless romantic. Modem geek.  | Disaster Area
v120qldp@ubvms.buffalo.edu  | WWIVnet 1@7659 | IceNET 1@7659 | (716)683-6657
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