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From article <2581@aegis.or.jp>, by davidg@aegis.or.jp (Dave McLane):
> I assume he wanted to do all the items on the list WHILE REMAINING
> ONLINE. 
> 
> What your post fails to mention is currently being discussed by
> yourself and others in alt.bbs:
> 
> 	b) Inability to remain online while performing additional
> functions under DOS. TBBS (along with other products that take over
> the DOS entirely) needs to be shut to handle ordinary DOS applications.
> In particular, it must be shut down to handle news and/or any program
> that isn't written to be compatible with TBBS: Borland C++, door
> games from non TBBS sources, WordPerfect, etc. 

	Dave, if you had actually read my post, you would have read where I
noted these limitations as well.  Specificly:

 > * Door games.  (I've only seen maybe 3 or 4 doors for OS/2, and none for
>   Linux.  If I use the OS/2 versions of Binkley and Maximus, can I spawn
>   a DOS door game?)
:more ( 0%):
 
        Not with TBBS.  You can get TDBS (expensive) and then there are a
wide variety of programs that others write for that (The games range
from free to outragously expensive.  There doesn't seem to be middle ground
either.  Either the game is < $10 or >$40 :(
 
> * Background mail tossing.  (I carry about 100 echo areas, and I don't want
>   the system tied up for long periods of time just unpacking new mail.)
 
        Nope.  You need to take the system down and run Tmail.  In my
experience, to fully toss and link about a meg of mail takes a little over 
15 minutes.  Some people can live with that, others can't.

> 
> According to what people are saying in alt.bbs, TBBS will run under
> OS/2 even though it's not officially supported by the vendor. This
> seems to mean that if you want to keep TBBS online and run
> other programs at the same time, you will have to run it (and the
> other programs) under OS/2. 

	Unfortunately, while you could run these other programs
locally, you couldn't run them on the BBS.  TBBS has no command to run
external dos files (save shutting down the system to run them).
 
 TTYL
 Chris