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Packet-Radio Digest Fri, 23 Jul 99 Volume 99 : Issue 170
Today's Topics:
AA4RE Packet Software
Doe's anyone Know how to write PG programs for FBB700g
FS: Motorola Radius P200 VHF
Linuxnet and xfbb? (2 msgs)
Transfer protocols. page/answer and tdma
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Date: 23 Jul 1999 03:49:09 GMT
From: ericto@aol.com (ERICTO)
Subject: AA4RE Packet Software
Hello, Just wondering if anyone is still running the BBS software of Roy AA4RE
??
I've been running it for about 6 years now and I've heard that it's not Y2K
ready.
Does anyone know of this and if so is there a Y2K upgrade for it. I enjoy
using
the software, I also have BPQ running with it. This software runs on the
oldest
of systems. I'm still running my four port BBS on a 386dx40. It runs 24/7 and
it hasn't failed once. The old 386 keeps right up even when I'm forwarding in
or
out, plus having users connected.
Thanks, Eric KD4MZM
kd4mzm@kd4mzm.srqfl.fl.usa.na
28.180 Lsb 1200 baud
145.010 1200 baud
145.050 1200 baud
441.000 1200 baud
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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 14:11:10 +0200
From: "Richard Seddon" <richard@factsnet.co.za>
Subject: Doe's anyone Know how to write PG programs for FBB700g
Hi there
Im wanting to write PG programs for our club BBS running FBB7.00g.
Does anyone have sample scource code for a PG, or know if Pascal or Basic
could be used for writting PG's.
73's
Richard ( ZR2CLI )
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Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 12:08:54 -0000
From: "DOGBOY@TELEPORT.COM" <dogboy@teleport.com>
Subject: FS: Motorola Radius P200 VHF
Go to http://classifieds.excite.com/cgi-cls/ad.exe?P1+C276+R1134365 to find
out more about it. Private bids okay.
DOGBOY
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Date: 22 Jul 1999 11:34:21 -0500
From: Kirk Job Sluder <csluder@indiana.edu>
Subject: Linuxnet and xfbb?
"Charles Brabham" <n5pvl@texoma.net> writes:
> I tried it, and found exactly what I described. If that offends some
> self-induced fantasy you have built for yourself around LINUX, well that's
> just too bad. I work with the facts, and tend to look down on self-appointed
> "experts" who have "got religion" over some bit of software or another, and
> get hostile when somebody points out what it's really like.
>
> Sorry, Bubba, but the old Commodore C-64 had LINUX's text interface beaten
> all to hell twenty years ago. I used a UNIX machine 15 years ago, and firing
> up LINUX takes me right back to that time. - I've gone a long way since
> then, and do not have patience with 1970's tech here in the late 90's.
I suggest that if you judge an operating system by the bells and whistles
attached to the interface, that you would be much happier with Windows 98.
Quite simply, Unix and Linux was not designed to have a nifty user
interface (although one can certainly install KDE, CDE, GNOME, Windowmaker,
Afterstep or E as a user interface.) Instead Unix and Linux were designed
to be extremely stable multi-user systems capable of squeaking the maximum
performance out of minimal hardware. Linux is also a modular system
which means that the core operating system comes only with a command-line
interface (and that interface is its self a program separate from the core
OS.) If one wishes to use a graphical user interface, one can choose from
a dozen window managers, about a half-dozen system administration tools,
more than two dozen email clients, and several word processing programs,
all of which are mostly independent from each other.
> I'll check out KDE, and will be pleasantly surprised if it compares well
> with a late 1980's vintage Mac.
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