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In article <1992Dec30.185932.17997@news.csd.sgi.com> kevinb@oblivion.csd.sgi.com (Kevin Brokaw) writes:
>In article <1992Dec30.174906.18596@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, knight@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Knight Before Christmas) writes:
>|> I am basically looking for some BBS package that runs CORRECTLY under
>|> MS Windows 3.1 enhanced mode.  I'd prefer to use Maximus BBS, which I
>|> am most impressed with, but it only works under standard mode.
>
>While I was waiting for a firmware upgrade to a new harddrive controller
>which didn't like QEMM/Desqview, I ran my Wildcat 3.55P BBS (2 nodes) under
>Windows 3.1 for a while (one local node, one com port locked at 19200 with
>a V32bis modem, and a BinkleyTerm mailer frontend). While I can't say I 
>particularly loved the speed of the sessions (I was, after all, running 
>on only a 386DX-20), It was an acceptable stop-gap until I could run Desqview
>again. Frankly, I'd recommend Desqview, as it's friendlier to comm-intensive
>applications, and you can run Windows (albeit in standard mode... never tried
>it in enhanced mode) from within a Desqview session). 
>  The disclaimer here is that Wildcat is not free, nor is it cheap ( $99-$149
>dollars for the single line version, depending upon what store you buy it 
>in - I saw the $99 at Software Etc), and most utilities for it are also in 
>the 50-99 dollar range. Figure a full setup with maintenance tools, and 
>Fido-net style networking capabilities will set you back about 200-250. The
>only good side of the cost is that they have provided excellent support to me
>when I've needed it, including rebuilding my file database once when a 
>drive glitch rendered it unreadable. Saved me at least 100 hours of having to
>re-load all my files into the BBS. I'm sure others have had negative 
>experiences, and it's not my aim to debate BBS software packages. Simply
>put, I run Wildcat, and it worked fine under windows unattanded for a 
>period of 2 months.
>Cheers,
>Kevin
>
>-- 
>Kevin Brokaw   (kevinb@csd.sgi.com)     | 
>Product support engineer                | Sorry, this closet is for anxieties.
>Silicon Graphics Computer Systems       | Pipe dreams are under the bed. 
>(Forgive them,they know not what I post)| 


Question: Does WildCat still have that horrable message base system? I
was on "the" wildcat board for this area a while back. (It was the test drive
version BTW) And if there were replys to a message, you HAD TO read all
the messages in that thread before going to the next message. If there
were 20 some replys to a message about cross stiching, you were stuck reading
those things! I though Wild Cat was well done and I've always heard they
were well supported but the message base gave me the shivers!

Rob Merritt