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Article #664Re: BBS under Windows
From: fred j mccall 575-3539
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:00
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:00
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In <1992Dec30.174906.18596@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> knight@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Knight Before Christmas) writes: >Greetings, all. I'm planning to start a BBS on my data line but I'm >also considering that the most effective way for me to run this BBS >without wasting my machine resources is to have it running under Windows 3.1. >At least, I have a lot of Windows software I can use while my BBS is >running. >First of all, Sorry to whomever wrote PBBS for Windows -- it glitched way >too much on me. >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. This is news to me. I've run Maximus 2.0 in a DOS box in Enhanced Mode under Windows 3.1. It not only runs correctly, but you can run multiple lines if you set it up right, with real-time chat between the nodes. -- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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Newsgroups: comp.bbs.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!csc.ti.com!tilde.csc.ti.com!mksol!mccall From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) Subject: Re: BBS under Windows Message-ID: <1992Dec30.210021.9672@mksol.dseg.ti.com> Keywords: help help help Organization: Texas Instruments Inc References: <1992Dec30.174906.18596@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:00:21 GMT Lines: 25